Category Archives: University of Wyoming history
Teaching and Learning Geology at UW: Professor Samuel H. Knight
University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center (AHC) has digitized and made accessible online over 3,200 photographs, documents, and 6 films documenting the University of Wyoming science camps and a geology lecture (Chalk Talk) that S.H. Knight gave in the 1960s … Continue reading
Forty Years of Diversity at UW
My name is Chelsea Nelson, and I am the new Carlson Intern at the University of Wyoming American Heritage Center. My job is to organize, categorize, and describe collections related to the College of Arts and Sciences so that researchers can … Continue reading
A Whole New Ball Game: The UW Intercollegiate Athletics Collection
Have you ever wanted to relive a special moment in Cowboy or Cowgirl sports history? Such as the 1988 football game of UW vs. Air Force, when UW came back and won? Or perhaps the 2007 NIT championship game of … Continue reading
The AHC’s Carlson Intern sheds some light on the process of processing!
Hello there! My name is Renee Barrera and I am a first year history graduate student and this past August I had the pleasure of being hired as the Carlson Intern at the American Heritage Center. The Carlson Internship is … Continue reading
A “Day” in the Life: A Conversation with Laura Uglean Jackson, University Archivist
As the University Archivist, what do you spend the bulk of your day doing? This is a somewhat difficult question for me to answer because I have so many other responsibilities besides being the university archivist. I am also a … Continue reading
Happy Mole Day!
Today between 6:02 am to 6:02 pm, science teachers around the nation are celebrating Avogadro’s number (6.02 x 1023), the approximate number of particles in one mole of a substance. In chemistry a mole is a unit of measurement for … Continue reading
