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Blugold Stories & University Updates
Blugolds chase excellence every day. Our students, faculty, staff, and alumni form a community of curious minds, change-seeking adventurers, competitive athletes, dedicated leaders, thoughtful citizens, and ambitious go-getters.
Explore our stories to learn how Blugolds are chasing excellence today.
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Blugold Stories & University Updates
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Blugolds chase excellence every day. Our students, faculty, staff, and alumni form a community of curious minds, change-seeking adventurers, competitive athletes, dedicated leaders, thoughtful citizens, and ambitious go-getters.
Explore our stories to learn how Blugolds are chasing excellence today.
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The two-year, $231,709 government subcontract received by Dr. Deidra Gerlach, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is the first of its kind for UW-Eau Claire and is laying the groundwork for more industry contractual projects in the future.
Blugolds assist effort to add 143-year-old bridge to historic register
Geology grad pays it forward by ‘adopting’ Blugold field campers
The May 2024 commencement marks the graduation of the first full cohort of Blugold Biomedical Innovator Scholars, nine students who have spent four full years in collaborative research with Mayo Health System.
Learn about the groundbreaking biomedical research in a UW-Eau Claire lab of students and faculty collaborating with Mayo Clinic Health System, a project to make certain cancer procedures safer and less painful.
The research and scholarly creative activity of more than 500 Blugold students will be on display during the university's Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity April 22-26 on campus.
Students will participate in high-level laboratory research and training in the fields of neuroscience and regenerative sciences this summer at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, through a nearly $600,000 National Institutes of Health grant.
Blugold senior Maddie Kasper is an honors student, the Editor in Chief at The Spectator, and an Ann Devroy Memorial Fellow, through which she secured a fellowship at The Washington Post in January 2024.
Mikayla Hady, from Mt. Auburn, Illinois, has always known she wanted to attend college in Wisconsin, where her parents are from. She had considered a few schools, but the University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire felt like the right choice.
Third-year student Devin Sobottka is one of only six students selected for the Goldwater Scholarship this year from a Universities of Wisconsin campus.
International students at UW-Eau Claire are eligible for all domestic intercultural immersion programs, which provide unique opportunities to have a guided experience learning about American life, culture and landscapes beyond campus.
UW-Eau Claire students, faculty collaborate with Wisconsin industry on defense contract
Glenwood Commons, a new housing site in Rice Lake funded through a Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. grant, provides housing to UW-Eau Claire students completing student teaching and internships.
Julia Toenjes was drawn to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for numerous reasons. The Honors LLC became a major factor in Julia's choosing to come to UWEC. She was also drawn to UWEC because of the undergraduate research opportunities.
Elizabeth Tenbarge and Nick Johnson have always known they wanted to be lawyers. What they didn’t know was they would become close friends as they continued on parallel paths towards their goals.
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