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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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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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Seven alumni and friends of the university will be honored with awards from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Alumni Association on Friday, Dec. 20.
For the second consecutive year, UW-Eau Claire’s participation in study abroad programs is the highest among master’s-level colleges and universities in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and ranks among the best in the nation, according to the 2024 Open Doors Report of the Institute of International Education.
Tyler Edmondson, assistant director of Event Services at UW-Eau Claire, applies life lessons in distance running to working with students on the Event Production Crew.
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UW-Eau Claire’s Fostering Success program is making huge leaps forward thanks to a $70,000 grant it received from the UW System. The program offers financial and other support to students who have formerly been in foster care.
Several UW-Eau Claire geography faculty, alumni and eventually current students will study the glacial geologic history of the Lake Superior Basin, work funded by a $2.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Julieta Murillo knew that her future career would involve helping youth and their families, but the Blugold didn’t expect to make an impact on people’s lives before she even graduated from college. However, that's what she's doing through her research.
Social work major Finn Hinnefeld is a shining example of the power of perseverance. After taking a needed break from school to address their mental health, Hinnefeld is now set to launch a career in social work.
Fall Creek native and December graduate Samantha Ruppert hopes to build a practice in speech pathology rooted in cultural competency and basic empathy, tools she developed as a highly engaged Blugold.
Maura Laesser saw the passion of special education instructors while she was a classroom assistant as a high school student, and the UW-Eau Claire senior has developed a similar devotion to the profession as she prepares to graduate.
Thanks to the connections he’s made and the opportunities he’s found at UW-Eau Claire, Wyatt Anklam knows he’s prepared to make the most of his future career and life. Anklam is graduating this month with accounting and business finance degrees.
Blugolds have completed internships in England, Australia and Ireland thanks to UW-Eau Claire's new international internship program. The eight-week summer internships occur in various locations, helping students build new skills and connections.
When Kylie Judd decided to study abroad in Prague, the UW-Eau Claire senior was determined to embrace every opportunity to learn about the culture and history of the Czech Republic. So, Judd said yes to a 35-mile nighttime hike to a holy site.
A UW-Eau Claire faculty-student research team is collecting and analyzing data relating to a community initiative that helps people who are food insecure to purchase more fresh, local and healthy foods at the Eau Claire Downtown Farmers Market.
For many UW-Eau Claire students, studying abroad is an important goal, and faculty-led immersion opportunities provide just the right balance of time away and international education.
UW-Eau Claire student researchers examined what other researchers were doing and how successful they were in creating models to solve problems related to COVID-19, along with examining the limitations and difficulties they experienced.
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