University of Wyoming

The University of Wyoming is located in Laramie, Wyoming in southeast Wyoming. UW is a public land-grant research university founded in March 1886 and opened in September 1887.

The University is made up of seven colleges: agriculture and natural resources, arts and sciences, business, education, engineering and applied sciences, health sciences, and law. The university offers over 120 undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs including Doctor of Pharmacy and Juris Doctor.

Th campus features the Coe Libary, The American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming Art Museum, the University of Wyoming Geological Museum, the University of Wyoming Anthropology Museum, ad he University of Wyoming Insect Museum.

University of Wyoming athletics teams are named the Cowboys and Cowgirls. UW offers 17 NCAA-sanctioned sports; nine women's sports and eight men's sports. Wyoming's nine NCAA sports for women are: basketball; cross country; golf; soccer; swimming and diving; tennis; indoor track & field; outdoor track and field; and volleyball. UW's eight NCAA sports for men: basketball; cross country; football; golf; swimming and diving; indoor track and field; outdoor track and field; and wrestling. The official song is "Ragtime Cowboy Joe."

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UW Moving to New Testing Program
UW Moving to New Testing Program
The University of Wyoming will be moving to a new COVID-19 testing program beginning the week of July 5. Each week, 3 percent of UW’s active employees, students enrolled in in-person classes and those living on campus will be randomly selected and receive emails to schedule their diagnostic tests. T...
UW Presenting Series of One-Act Performances
UW Presenting Series of One-Act Performances
The University of Wyoming Department of Theatre and Dance’s 2021 Snowy Range Summer Theatre season is open with its first public theater production since spring 2020. David Ives’ evening of one-act plays, titled “All in the Timing,” runs June 24-26 and June 30-July 2 at 7:30 p.m., and July 3 at 2 p.m...
UW Makes Strides In Cryptocurrency
UW Makes Strides In Cryptocurrency
The University of Wyoming has reached a new milestone, as the Wyoming Advanced Blockchain Laboratory (WABL) in UW’s Department of Computer Science has not only minted its first block on the Cardano network but in fact, has minted 121 blocks and counting as of June 15. T...
UW Spinoff Company Receives Dept. of Energy Grant
UW Spinoff Company Receives Dept. of Energy Grant
A business in Laramie that originated at the University of Wyoming has received a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in order to develop and commercialize instrumentation platforms for the non-destructive manipulation and analysis of micro-and nano-sized materials...
UW Faculty Takes Part in Study of Wildfire In Rocky Mountains
UW Faculty Takes Part in Study of Wildfire In Rocky Mountains
Bryan Shuman, a professor in the UW Department of Geology and Geophysics, was the main co-author of a paper, titled “Rocky Mountain Subalpine Forests Now Burning More Than Any Time in Recent Millennia,” that was published today (June 14) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The journal is on...
UW Professor Leads Research on Ecological Trade-Offs
UW Professor Leads Research on Ecological Trade-Offs
A new study which was led by the University of Wyoming sheds light on the relationship of ecological trade-offs, as well as challenges the nature of this relationship. Daniel Laughlin, an associate professor in the UW Department of Botany and director of the Global Vegetation Project, led the study, which included researchers from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research in Leipzig,
UW Law Library Recognized with Award
UW Law Library Recognized with Award
The George W. Hopper Law Library in the University of Wyoming’s College of Law has been recognized with the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Excellence in Community Engagement Award for a program that was developed to provide legal research training to librarians throughout the state. The in...

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