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In recognition of International Education Week, we are shining a spotlight on Blugold senior Willa Rogers, whose language study and multiple international experiences in Japan clearly demonstrate the transformative force of global learning.

UW-Eau Claire’s participation in study abroad programs is again ranked among the highest master’s-level colleges in the nation, according to the 2025 Open Doors Report of the Institute of International Education.

Senior Latin American and Latinx studies major Avery Dresel rebooted a geographic information system mapping project begun years ago by Dr. Jeff DeGrave and a former student, a project that seeks to track and reduce sexual violence in Latin American countries through the development of a mobile app for documentation.

After a semester studying the intersection of American Indian art and modernism in New Mexico, 12 students traveled to Sante Fe and Taos for a two-week immersion experience. They left with new memories, new cultural fluencies and new friends, among communities in New Mexico and Wisconsin.

Dr. Harry Jol, professor of geography, and a team of research students are featured in a National Geographic documentary that highlights the team’s use of ground-penetrating radar to locate mass graves of the Holocaust at sites across Eastern Europe.

Since the internship program began in the 1990s, more than 100 Blugolds have completed what they call a transformative academic and life experience.

The collaborative combines the power of the state’s universities with partners from government, industry and local communities to solve freshwater issues and train the next generation of freshwater scientists.

UW-Eau Claire and UW Oshkosh received a $1.6 million joint award from the National Science Foundation under a program called “Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Economic Development” (GRANTED).

When the Rapidan Dam near Mankato, Minnesota, suffered a catastrophic flood event in late June 2024, a team of regional earth scientists took quick action to document the major changes taking place on the Blue Earth River.

For Dr. Thomas Kemp, professor of economics at UW-Eau Claire and a lifelong skateboarder, the community connection between skate parks and their users posed a unique research opportunity for himself and some interested economics students.

Seeley, a 1999 UW-Eau Claire illustration graduate, hits it big in TV with a science fiction series based on his comic series "Revival."

Thanks to the collaboration agreement between UW-Eau Claire and Mayo Clinic Health System, an interdisciplinary Blugold research project recently received key financial support that can take it to the next level.