UW is committed to ensuring that graduate students have every opportunity to learn cutting edge research and discovery skills. It is these skills that will provide the necessary academic credentials to ensure competitive success in your chosen career.
  The Office of Research links research, technology transfer, and economic development efforts to enhance federal, state, and private sector support for faculty and graduate student scholarship. The office coordinates the origination and execution of UW's research mission with principal investigators, departments, colleges, centers, and institutes.

Quality Indicators

 UW is a national leader in the fields of environment and natural resource research, specializing in energy, agriculture, and water-related fields. Units supporting this research include the Institute for Energy Research, Wyoming Cooperative Research Unit, Wyoming Geographic Information Sciences Center; Institute for Environment and Natural Resources, Institute for Scientific Computation; and Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, and Atmospheric Sciences.

 The National Institutes of Health granted UW $6.9 million to establish a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence.

 A four-year, $1.3 million grant from NASA is funding Planetary and Space Science Center research.

$13,000,000.00 Inbre grant (Idea networks of biomedical excellence) was received to study health outcomes in rural populations. Interdisciplinary research program centered in the College of Health Sciences.

 UW has received Cardiovascular Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) grants in excess of $5 million dollars. The research focuses on physiological mechanisms involved in regulation of nerve function and the cardiovascular system.

Research Institutes & Centers

• Center for Biomedical Research Excellence - Cardiovascular Health
• Center for Biomedical Research Excellence - Cellular Signaling
• Center for Fetal Programming
• Center for Rural Health Research and Education
• Electric Motor Testing Facility
• Institute for Energy Research
• Institute for Scientific Computation
• National Institutes for Water Resources Program
• Public Utility Research and Training Institute (PURTI)
• Survey Research and Statistical Consulting Center
• University of Wyoming/National Park Service Research Center
• Water Resources Data System (WRDS)
• Western Research Institute (WRI)
• William D. Ruckelshaus Institute for Environment and Natural Resources
• Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center (WYGISC)
• Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND)
• Wyoming Natural Diversity Database (WYNDD)