December 21, 2020 University of Wyoming student Colton Zier, a recent master’s degree graduate from Basin, assisted on a project with two UW professors who developed a public health tool to track COVID-19 data -- one that provides up-to-date information tailored for rural areas, such as Wyoming. (Tyler Johnson Photo) Two University of Wyoming professors, with assistance from a UW graduate student from Basin, developed a public health tool to track COVID-19 data -- one that provides up-to-date information tailored for rural areas, such as Wyoming. Pavel Chernyavskiy, in the UW Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Tim Robinson, a statistics professor and the director of UW’s WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho) Medical Education Program, are the co-principal investigators of the project. Colton Zier, from Basin, assisted on the ongoing project.