Students and faculty from the Univerity of Wyoming’s school of nursing and pharmacy created a display to showcase the campus’s vaccination efforts.
Students and faculty joined to put about 500 empty vaccine vitals into a wooden frame to create UW’s bucking horse and rider symbol.
“I was inspired by all of the hard-working volunteers, students, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care professionals who were giving the vaccines at the clinic. How many vaccines we were being given a day and the amazing community of Laramie coming in with happy faces to put in their effort and get immunized,” Marcella Gramcko Wietstruck said
“It was one of the greatest examples of teamwork I have ever been part of, and I did not want it to go unnoticed.”
Weistruck graduated from the school of pharmacy and worked to create the display.
“I have to thank Dr. Joe Russo, adjunct faculty with the School of Teacher Education, for helping me make the shape of Steamboat in wood,” Wietstruck said
“Also, I thank my classmates Danna Hanks from Powell, Lauren Hinckley from Lovell, James Graber from Rapid City, S.D., and Dr. Melissa Hunter for helping me collect all of the vials. And, of course, all of the volunteers, students, and health care professionals who gave shots every day for many months; none of these could have been done without them.”
Kem Kruger, dean and associate professor in the School of Pharmacy, also worked on the project.
“The College of Health Sciences students were instrumental in establishing and operating the clinic, particularly in the early months,” Kruger said
“I enjoyed watching the students interact with personnel from Albany County Public Health, Ivinson Memorial Hospital, the volunteer nurses, and the many volunteers from across the county.”
Once it is placed in a secure frame, the “vaccine bucking horse” will be displayed in the College of Health sciences.
