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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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Maren Durand’s academic journey has been shaped by curiosity, collaboration and transformative research experiences — a web of intellectual paths woven by UW-Eau Claire's Blugold Fellowship program and the Mark Stephen Cosby Honors College.
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.
On Thursday, Nov. 6, leadership, faculty and staff from UW-Eau Claire were honored to welcome international guests from Poland to The Sonnentag. More than a tour of the facility, the gathering included discussions on economic development, international business education and the university’s establishment of strong community partnerships.
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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.
Blugold students have exclusive access to paid research internships in neuroscience under the guidance of Mayo Clinic researchers in Rochester, Minnesota. Learn more about this "Only at Eau Claire" opportunity.
Two events will take place at UW-Eau Claire in honor of Indigenous Peoples Day 2025, both celebrations involving the arts as an inspiring way to honor the occasion and the sacred land of this campus.
Removing barriers and creating new pathways to empower students was the driving force behind six new articulation agreements UW-Eau Claire signed with Chippewa Valley Technical College this fall.
UW-Eau Claire will host the Imagine Lecture presented by Mayo Clinic Health System-Eau Claire at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, in the Dakota Ballroom of Davies Center. The guest speaker is Dr. Lisa Schulte Moore, an Eau Claire native, UW-Eau Claire biology graduate and faculty member at Iowa State University.
UW-Eau Claire is ranked among the top 10 public regional universities in the Midwest in the 2026 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings released Sept. 23.
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).
Brandon and Emily Riechers will receive the 2025 Blugold Spirit Award, a recognition reserved for alumni who live out excellence, generosity and a deep love for UW-Eau Claire.
To spread the word about UW-Eau Clare's 100th Homecoming and the 49th year of the Bridgman Hall Kazoo Band, past members gathered, along with some new recruits, at the Minnesota State Fair.
Find out all the exciting details for Homecoming 2025 at UW-Eau Claire. Join us Oct. 2-4 in celebrating 100 years of Homecoming!
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