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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
After two years of brainstorming, research and relationship building, Dave Mullen ’96, Patrick Rebman ’95, Corey Honadel and Ted Johnsen have launched VacationDocks.com.
Camila Mennitte Pereyra delivered the “Charge to the Class” at the two commencement ceremonies, thanking those who helped her persevere when she moved from Argentina to Wisconsin to pursue her dreams of higher education.
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.
Technology startup ParityBlu was a student entrepreneurship project and recently won the WiSys Innovators of the Year Award for 2022.
On Oct. 6, UW-Eau Claire alumna Susan Tietz will receive a special award from the Alumni Association, the Blugold Spirit Award. Tietz is being recognized for her steadfast support for all things blue and gold since her graduation in 1971.
Alumni and friends of the university will be honored by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Alumni Association on Sunday, Oct. 9, as part of Homecoming activities.
Alex Brown, a 2016 actuarial science graduate of UW-Eau Claire, has established a forensics fund and scholarship through the UW-Eau Claire Foundation and provides ongoing financial support to the university's Civil Rights Pilgrimage.
The top summer hit from Amazon Prime, “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” features 1998 theatre arts grad Alfredo Narciso. The veteran actor of stage, TV and film talks about this popular new show, his career path and future plans.
UW-Eau Claire graduate Emma Mabie is spending her summer working as an intern at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. She was selected for the prestigious internship from nearly 1,500 applicants, and is one of two interns working in Museum Collections.
In early April the Eau Claire Public Schools Foundation announced the 2022 Golden Apple awards for excellence in K-12 education, and of the 22 recipients, 15 of them are graduates of UW-Eau Claire.
The Mary L. Hilfiker Scholarship Fund is a permanently endowed scholarship for graduates of Rice Lake High School who have been accepted to and plan to attend UW-Eau Claire, including the Barron County campus.
UW-Eau Claire biology graduate and Seattle-based clinical researcher Dr. Rachel Issaka reminds us that March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, a time to learn the facts about the disease, the risk factors and when to begin routine screening.
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