To the University of Wyoming students with disabilities, it can feel as though the university can sometimes be confused about how exactly to create an inclusive environment for everyone. Inclusivity and embracing diversity in the UW community has been considered a goal for the university in recent years, so of course, the people with disabilities…
Mountainous forests in the western United States have faced a growing epidemic of beetle kill since the 1990s, including the forests in the Sierra Madre mountain range in California and Wyoming’s own Medicine Bow National Forest. The Landscape and Vegetation Analysis project, LaVa, is aiming to manage and study the altered land and vegetation to…
The Wyoming Office of Tourism plays an important role in stimulating Wyoming’s economy with their efforts towards engaging the public with new advertising, videos, website layout and various articles about why Wyoming is the ultimate destination for a vacation. The ‘That’s WY’ campaign, created and sponsored by the Wyoming Office of Tourism, has recently started…
The members of the Student Art League at the University of Wyoming have vocalized their safety concern for the need of street lamps near the visual arts building on 22nd street. As art students, they spend a lot of their time at the visual arts building, even when they are not attending meetings there. Some…
Professor Carl Frick, department head of the mechanical engineering department at the University of Wyoming, is the co-founder of Impressio Inc., a business that has recently risen to fame due to winning the category of player safety in the NFL’s innovation competition, the 1st and Future Pitch Competition. For the competition, companies created different pitches…
At the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium movies and shows concerning the cosmos and its mysteries are offered to UW students and the general public of Laramie. As said in the opening sequence of Star Trek the Original Series, space is the final frontier, a border between us and the great unknown. The…
One resolution of UW students, especially undergraduates, who are not very familiar with Laramie is to discover more cost-friendly activities to participate in around Laramie. New year’s resolutions are still in full effect, even in the second week of February. There are the mainstream things to do in Laramie, such as bowling at Laramie Lanes…
The College of Engineering is working to create a new Computer Engineering program, while collaborating with the College of Education, allowing students to one day major concurrently to obtain a Secondary Education degree. While the Electrical and Computer Engineering program for undergraduates is similar to the proposed degree program, there are differences as well. An…
ASUW audited about 18 RSOs because of suspicions regarding RSO funding and the ASUW Finance Policy being violated in December of 2017, causing ASUW to take action and create Senate Bill 2593, which will alter Article III in the ASUW Finance Policy. Article III’s subject matter pertains to ASUW’s RSO Funding Board, outlining specific steps…
In March, a proposal for a tourism undergraduate degree program will be discussed at the monthly UW Board of Trustees meeting. In a joint effort between the College of Business and the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, the Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism degree is a proposed interdisciplinary program for students that combines…
Upon entering room 221 of the Classroom Building, a message on the white board reads ‘Welcome to Political Science Club’ while jokingly beginning the meeting with the comment you can’t spell political without lit! Potential members arrive and the officers begin introductions, introducing themselves, and then asking the attendees their name, their grade, their major…
On Monday Feb. 12, nine days after the end of UW’s weeklong event, Martin Luther King Jr. Days of Dialogue, the first sessions of a diversity workshop for faculty and students will be held in the Wyoming Union Building, in the Wyoming Union Ballroom. The faculty workshop will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.,…
