Published June 20, 2025
Congratulations, Graduates!
Earlier this month, the University of Wyoming College of Arts and Sciences proudly
celebrated the Class of 2025 during spring commencement. We’re so proud of our students'
achievements and can’t wait to see where your journeys take you next. Thank you for
your support of our newest alumni. Go Pokes!
A Message from Interim Dean Freng
With the semester and graduation behind us, I want to extend my heartfelt congratulations to all of our graduates. You have worked hard, and we’re so proud to welcome you as the newest members of our A&S alumni family!
Thank you to our donors and alumni for your unwavering support—it truly makes a difference in the lives of our students and our college.
In this issue of the A&S newsletter, you'll learn about new Wyoming Center on Aging initiatives, recent faculty presentations, and more. Wishing everyone a restful and enjoyable summer ahead.
Adrienne Freng
Missed this year's commencement? You can still watch the ceremony online!
UW College of Arts and Sciences Celebrates 2025 Faculty Award Recipients
UW College of Arts and Sciences Recognizes 13 Outstanding 2025 Graduates
Professor of Communication and Journalism Presents in Sweden
Professor of Communication and Journalism Cindy Price Schultz presented, "Moving Journalism in a New Direction? Business Models of Digital News Organizations in Kazakhstan," to a lunch seminar at the Media Management and Transformation Center at the Jönköping International Business School in Jönköping, Sweden, on May 14. The presentation was based on the sabbatical research done this fall at Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. This work was also presented in conjunction with Karlyga Myssayeva of KazNU later during the month at the World Media Economics and Management Conference in Warsaw, Poland.
Theatre and Dance Professor Designs Costumes for External Productions
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance Erin Reed Carter is researching, designing and crafting costumes for two external theatrical productions. First, Carter will be working at Santa Cruz Shakespeare in Santa Cruz, California, designing and building costumes for their upcoming production of William Shakespeare's Pericles. After completing her research in California, Carter will travel to Cincinnati, Ohio to design costumes for Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's production of An Enemy of the People, Amy Herzog's 2024 adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen classic. Pictured is one of Carter's design renderings.
UW Alumna Published in American Choral Directors Association Journal
Recent UW graduate Emily Peterson had her article “One Text, Many Settings: Helping Students Create Meaning Through Text in the Choir Classroom” published by the Choral Journal, the American Choral Directors Association’s national journal.
Wyoming Center on Aging Encourages Residents to 'Know Their Numbers'
In recognition of the critical importance of raising awareness about high blood pressure, Gov. Mark Gordon officially proclaimed May as High Blood Pressure Education Month. Residents are encouraged to “know their numbers” by checking out a blood pressure kit available at their county library. These kits have been made available by a collaboration among the UW Center on Aging, the Wyoming Department of Health Chronic Disease Prevention Program and each county public library system. Learn more here.
U.S. Senator Malcolm Wallop Excellence Fund in Civic Engagement
The U.S. Senator Malcolm Wallop Excellence Fund in Civic Engagement was founded in 2017 with the generous support of the former staff, friends, family and supporters of former U.S. Senator Malcolm Wallop of Big Horn, Wyoming. The endowment supports the Malcolm Wallop Civic Engagement Program and its signature K-12 Curriculum Project, providing free multimedia lesson materials in civics and social studies for Wyoming teachers. This curriculum lines up with state social studies content standards as well as teacher professional development opportunities such as summer workshops. Since its launch in Dec. 2020, the catalog has expanded to include 120+ content topics with more than 267 educators from 69 schools in 21 out of the 23 counties and the Wind River Reservation having used these materials.
Jan. 2025 marked the launch of the new statewide Wyoming Youth Resilience Project, which aims to partner with K-12 classes to empower students to share their understanding of barriers and opportunities to educational attainment, employment, and community resilience. The Tucker Foundation has provided a generous challenge grant which provides a 1:1 match for all new donations received this summer for the Wyoming Youth Resilience Project. For program information see: https://www.uwyo.edu/wallop/ or contact Prof. Jean Garrison at garrison@uwyo.edu.
