As a part of April’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month, this year’s Denim Day celebrated 25 years of impact. Since 1999, the Peace Over Violence campaign has sought to inspire survivors and change attitudes towards sexual assault victims. Now, as an international event, Denim Day is now the longest running sexual violence prevention education campaign in…
Students at the University of Wyoming are fundraising, swabbing for potential marrow and blood donors and raising awareness for the cause of treating and preventing certain types of cancers as part of the National Marrow Donor Program’s (NMDP) Be The Match organization on campus. Rallying around Junie, a young girl diagnosed with aplastic anemia who…
University of Wyoming students wore pink to welcome actor and comedian Daniel Franzese, who plays Damian in the 2004 film “Mean Girls.” On April 19, 2024, Franzese visited the Wyoming Union for an event hosted by 7220 Entertainment. At the event, students were able to watch the original “Mean Girls” movie and listen to commentary…
The Honors College hosted film producer and director, Oualid Mouaness, for their Middle East Film Masterclass. Mouaness shared his experience in the film world and how he was able to produce his most famous short films and music videos including “1982” and “The Rifle, The Jackal, The Wolf, and The Boy.” Mouaness’s most recent short…
Renowned deaf artist and activist Nancy Rourke visited the University of Wyoming Thursday, April 11 and, in partnership with 7220 Entertainment, hosted a painting workshop for students and other members of the UW and Laramie community. About 20 participants, many of whom were also either deaf and/or speaker’s of ASL, attended the workshop, and were…
The University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium held a solar eclipse observation event on Prexy’s Pasture, where dozens of students and members of the community looked at the sun through eclipse glasses that the planetarium provided. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, and even though Wyoming…
The Wyoming Historical Society uploaded their second episode of “Women of Wyoming [WoW], Then & Now,” with guest Kylie McCormick, a Wyoming historian. McCormick shared her research surrounding the negative reputation of Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard, a woman historian and University of Wyoming educator in the late 1800’s. “Women of Wyoming, Then & Now,” is…
The Laramie community gathered together on Thursday, Feb. 22 to celebrate the life of Sabrina Geller, a University of Wyoming student and ROTC cadet who was found deceased near Vedauwoo Recreation Area Feb. 13, at St. Matthews Cathedral. At her funeral, she received military honors and some of the people who knew her in life…
“No day is the same,” said Chief Dan Johnson. “You have days where they can’t pay you enough to do what you just had to do and days you can’t believe they pay you to do this job.” The Laramie Fire Department is ready at any moment 24 hours a day to keep Laramie and…
Meditation, baking and birdwatching are some of the many activities Kate Northrup, a creative writing professor at the University of Wyoming, has enjoyed the past decade while working at the University of Wyoming. Northrup has taught at the university for 16 years, since 2008, when she moved to Laramie from Philadelphia, PA. After getting her…
A large, serpent-like LEGO sculpture has been put on display at the University of Wyoming. Ekow Nimako, a Toronto-based, multidisciplinary artist has created a large-scale LEGO sculpture in order to showcase his take on Afrofuturism and the Ghanaian afterlife. Nimako is not only inspired by not only the artistic, but the mechanical and engineering aspects…
On Thursday Jan. 25, the University welcomed Benjamin Patton, the grandson of General George S. Patton, who served in WWII. Ben Patton began the Patton Veterans Project (PVP) in 2011. According to the PVP website, Patton thought that the “process of collaborating to create visual narratives this way could also benefit veterans returning from combat…
