OpenFieldUWyo · Laramie, Wyoming, United States
The University of Wyoming (UWyo / UW) is Wyoming's sole public land-grant flagship research university, situated at 7,220 feet between the Laramie and Medicine Bow mountain ranges in Laramie, Wyoming. Renowned for energy engineering at the School of Energy Resources, atmospheric flight research aboard the King Air atmospheric aircraft, wildlife migration ecology, and supercomputing at the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center, UWyo anchors discovery across the Rocky Mountain West.
UWyo encompasses seven colleges: Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources; Engineering and Physical Sciences; Arts and Sciences; Business; Education; Health Sciences; and the College of Law. Flagship research centers include the School of Energy Resources (SER), the Wyoming Migration Initiative, and the High Bay Research Facility.
Undergraduate admissions evaluate high school core GPA (minimum 3.0) and curriculum. Graduate admissions require an accredited bachelor's degree with a minimum 3.0 GPA, statement of purpose, three letters of recommendation, and English language proficiency (TOEFL 79+ or IELTS 6.5+).
Elite energy doctorate utilizing the High Bay Research Facility for high-pressure micro-CT imaging of fluid flow in porous rock, carbon dioxide geologic mineralization, and hydrogen storage in subterranean formations.
Operating the NSF-supported Wyoming King Air atmospheric research aircraft, investigating winter cloud seeding efficacy, mixed-phase cloud microphysics, radar reflectivity of snow storms, and aerosol-cloud interactions.
Preeminent wildlife tracking doctorate through the Wyoming Migration Initiative, tracking mule deer and pronghorn long-distance migrations, predator-prey dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and highway wildlife crossings.
Doctoral research connected to the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) in Cheyenne, focusing on parallel climate simulation models, automated geophysical inversion algorithms, and deep neural networks.
Housed alongside the Rocky Mountain Herbarium (over 1 million vascular plant specimens), studying alpine tundra plant freeze tolerance, mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis, and climate impacts on Western flora.
Top-tier natural resources law program training attorneys in public lands grazing permits, mineral royalties litigation, federal oil and gas leasing, water rights prior appropriation, and wildlife protection law.
Director & Professor of Wildlife Conservation
Wyoming Migration Initiative & Department of Zoology
Dr. Kauffman leads the Wyoming Migration Initiative, mapping big game ungulate migration corridors across the Western United States using GPS collar telemetry a...
View researcher profile ↗Thomas and Shelley Botts Chair & Professor of Petroleum Engineering
Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering & High Bay
Dr. Piri is an international authority on multiphase flow in porous media, operating world-leading 3D X-ray tomography imaging systems for carbon dioxide seques...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Atmospheric Science
Department of Atmospheric Science
Dr. Geerts directs research on precipitation physics using the Wyoming Cloud Radar, airborne orographic snowstorm tracking, weather modification efficacy, and b...
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