From Range Club to Fashion Club, the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture, Life Sciences and Natural Resources nurtures a wide variety of student organizations. These organizations focus on many kinds of activities, from recreation to community service to academics.
Student organizations allow students to make lifelong connections with others who have similar interests and to explore new hobbies or possible careers. They are run by students with guidance from faculty advisers.
Fashion Club provides creative outlet, community
The UW Fashion Club was revitalized in 2023 by Izzy Nichols, who served as the club president until her graduation in 2026. Nichols majored in Design, Merchandising and Textiles (DMT) with a focus on apparel design and product development.
Fashion Club meets every two weeks. During meetings, members might participate in creative activities like a jewelry-making workshop, a fashion-themed Jeopardy game, or costume prep for Halloween.
Last year, the club helped promote the Campus Community Closet, a free clothing store located in the basement of the Union. The closet provides free, gently used clothing items to UW students, staff, and faculty; it stocks both formal and casual attire. Club members used outfits from the community closet as part of the student-run Kaleidoscope Fashion Show, creating publicity for a resource that is sometimes overlooked.
In addition to participating in the Kaleidoscope Show as clothing designers and models, Fashion Club members have attended bigger shows farther afield. In 2024, they visited a fashion show in Denver dedicated to reusing and reimagining items that are typically considered trash.
Greta Quill, former vice president and current president of the club, is an art history major with minors in entrepreneurship and museum studies. She believes that the club can provide important benefits to students from any major. Fashion Club provides a tight-knit community—and a creative outlet that isn’t graded, she comments.
In addition, Fashion Club can help students learn vital skills that allow them to succeed in a wide variety of careers, from interior design to retail merchandising to marketing.
Quill and Nichols note that the club also helped them practice leadership, event planning, and designing outreach materials like flyers and social media posts.
“This club and everybody that is involved…have helped with whatever future job I decide to do,” adds Nichols. “The leadership role has really helped me learn different ways of how to do things, what works and what doesn’t.”
Range Club facilitates hands-on education, professional development
Range Club may be worlds away from fashion and design, but both clubs offer opportunities to learn outside the classroom, prepare for future careers, meet peers with similar interests, and network at off-campus events.
While Range Club primarily attracts undergraduate students in the natural resources field, it’s open to students from all majors.
During a typical week, Range Club students might practice for a national plant identification competition, talk with guest speakers who are involved in range careers, or volunteer with a local nonprofit or governmental organization.
UW undergraduate Emma Talbott served as the Range Club historian in 2025. She is double majoring in rangeland ecology and watershed management (REWM) and wildlife and fisheries biology and management.
Reflecting on her Range Club experiences, Talbott highlighted a volunteer learning opportunity with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. Range Club students visited the Snowy Mountain Range, learning how the department conducts habitat assessments for elk, moose, and mule deer and helping the professionals monitor sagebrush cover and forage growth.
“I think [volunteering] definitely provides a really good opportunity for students to get insight into what these agencies are doing,” says Talbott. “Range Club provides a lot of opportunities for students to grow as young professionals.”
UW’s Range Club is an active member of the student section of the Society for Range Management (SRM), a professional organization dedicated to the sustainable management of rangelands.
At SRM conferences, club members attend workshops and hone their knowledge and public speaking skills through exams and presentations. UW Range Club students have even received job offers at SRM conferences.
From attending national events to volunteering within their communities, extracurriculars like Range Club and Fashion Club help students build essential skills like teamwork, leadership, and communication.
Madison Clarke, 2025 Range Club president, graduated from UW in 2026 with a bachelor’s degree in REWM. “I just really encourage student involvement in clubs and extracurriculars,” she says. “I think it opens a lot of doors for you, and it really helps you get the most out of your college experience. You’re never going to hurt yourself by learning more, getting exposed to different types of thinking or more people within the field.”
UW has over 250 student organizations. To find your community at UW, visit www.uwyo.edu/csil/student-orgs/index.
