Category: Campus
Board of Trustees September summary
The Board of Trustees met from Sept. 20-22 to discuss financial and construction decisions for the University of Wyoming and its students. One of the items discussed was adding a trailhead on the UW Jacobi ridge property. They plan to have a trailhead that provides parking, comfort facilities, restrooms, and gathering spaces. The main concern…
Students leave good impression at Job Fair
The Big Job Fair opened Career Fair Week onTuesday, Sept. 19th, giving companies from all over Wyoming and abroad an opportunity to set up to recruit University of Wyoming students. There were four fairs within a span of three days, from Tuesday through. To no surprise, there was an abundance of government representation, along with…
Amazon economist visits College of Business
On Sept. 15th, 2023, the University of Wyoming welcomed back Min Gong, a former graduate student who is now an economist and science lead with the multinational technology company, Amazon. Dr. Gong came to the business building on campus and spoke about her education, in which she obtained two PhDs and she earned her PhD…
Space Cowboys last test launch before eclipse
On Wednesday Sept. 14, a team of University of Wyoming students participating in the National Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP) completed their last test launch in preparation for two upcoming launches set for the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 14, and the total solar eclipse on April 4, 2024. The NEBP includes 55 teams of students…
UW hosts first Career Prep Week
The University of Wyoming’s Advising, Career & Exploratory Studies Center, aka ACES, hosted their first ever Career Prep Week on the week of Sept. 11th. Throughout the week, students were given resources to prepare for the following Career Fair Week, or to apply to future job searches. Each day, a series of seminars, activities and…
What is CPM and why should we care
The University of Wyoming continues to maintain its faculty levels by welcoming over 136 new faculty hires for the 2023-2024 academic year, of which Provost Kevin Carman notes is necessary to maintaining student success. “First and foremost, the fundamental objective is to make sure that we have the faculty that we need, that provide the…
Saddle Up returns for its second year
Saddle Up, the mandatory orientation program for freshmen, returned once againto the University of Wyoming to kick off the Fall 2023 semester. Beginning with move-in on August 18th, the week-long event encouraged community-building through activities like Union After Dark, visiting the farmer’s market, academic preparation provided by a brief course relevant to student’s majors, and…
Utility work continues to strain campus flow
While the sights of University construction are fading in light of the Fall semester, the tension and effects of the topic still remain on campus. During the 2022-2023 school year, students were made aware of campus plans as parking spaces suddenly became construction sites; routine class routes were altered, and quiet study areas turned into…
Banned Pastor back at the Union
On both August 31st and September 1st, 2023, Todd Schmidt, an elder of Laramie Faith Community Church, set up his first table in the Wyoming Union for the 2023-2024 academic school year. This comes after a year-long ban from the University of Wyoming, and a subsequent civil suit over Schmidt’s First Amendment Rights as a…
Estimated $633,905 to be collected from parking
The UW Transportation Services budgeted an estimated $633,905 in net income from parking, including fines and tickets, during the 2023 Fiscal Year (FY23) according to Paul Kunkel, Director of the UW Transportation Services. A report provided by former ASUW Vice President Hunter Swilling accounted for just over $1,000,000 in projected revenue from parking in FY23….
Preliminary report shows decrease in campus sexual assault
Rates of sexual assault at the University of Wyoming are roughly in line with national averages and have decreased, on average, since 2018 according to preliminary data from the university’s 2022 Campus Climate Survey. According to the survey’s preliminary findings, 11% of males, 23% of females, 12% of non-binary, and 18% of overall students have…