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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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Becca Roth, a social work major at UW-Eau Claire, appealed to the city of Eau Claire to improve pedestrian safety at the Water Street intersection near her residence hall. Find out how she got a flashing light signal set for spring 2026 installation.
UW-Eau Claire is among the top military-friendly campuses in the country, ranking ninth among large public institutions for its support for veterans and their families in Viqtory Media’s annual survey.
Susan Lederer, a 1992 UW-Eau Claire graduate, is a planetary and space scientist for NASA. Based at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Lederer found a career she knew she was destined for during those nights of stargazing in northern Wisconsin.
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CultureFest is an key campus event at UW-Eau Claire, giving students and the community a chance to learn from one another and share what makes all our different backgrounds and cultures special. Learn more about this day of cross-cultural appreciation and fun.
As he finishes an accelerated business degree, UW-Eau Claire accounting student McCullen Willmert has found time for honors college research, campus leadership and an unlikely love affair with the country of Georgia.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Enjoy this photo essay sharing incredible visuals of UW-Eau Claire Theatre’s “Eurydice” that ran Feb. 27-March 8.
In the far northern part of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula sits the small town of Calumet. The village, composed of just over 600 people, may be small, but it has huge historical significance for the U.P.
Registration is still open for the third annual Medical Academy Program at UW-Eau Claire. It begins on March 30, running Monday evenings through April 27.
Three Blugold geography students spent the Winterim 2025 term in the Philippines with Dr. Harry Jol conducting studies to analyze shoreline changes caused by major weather and tectonic events.
For 2023 Blugold language teaching graduate Luca Ciletti, a passion project researching old manuscripts not only made the COVID lockdown tolerable, it gave him the drive to stay in school at all.
Meudt, a native of Waunakee, will return to the Madison area in January to start her full-time position as an engineer for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, working primarily on road and bridge design.
Not all students at UW-Eau Claire can pinpoint exactly who or what inspired their academic or career path. But for December graduate Zoe Lewis, that answer is an easy one. Her mother and siblings are the reason she has always known that special education teaching was the path for her.
For December nursing graduate Nicholas Strauss, his degree in nursing was strengthened by his ability to pursue music performance while completing his BSN. And his love of music was enhanced by becoming a nurse.
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.
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