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Chancellor's Blog: Our values in action
In an end-of-semester update, Chancellor James Schmidt reports on progress and planning in the works to advance UW-Eau Claire's efforts in support of its core values.
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UW-Eau Claire celebrates more than 1,400 spring 2020 graduates
The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is celebrating 1,433 students who will complete academic degrees at the conclusion of the spring 2020 semester.
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Continuing Education announces May programs
UW-Eau Claire Continuing Education will present a variety of online programs in May, including Mastering Change Leadership, Recovering after COVID-19: Planning and Managing Cash Flow, Leading Virtual Teams and more.
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UW-Eau Claire public history team creating Chippewa Valley COVID-19 archive
Students in Dr. Cheryl Jiménez Frei’s public history class are helping to shape how future generations will understand COVID-19 and its impact on the region by capturing oral histories and artifacts from people in the Chippewa Valley.
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UW System top teaching award goes to Dr. Jerry Hoepner
For his excellence in teaching and success in helping students become lifelong learners, Dr. Jerry Hoepner, associate professor of communication sciences and disorders, has been named a recipient of the 2020 UW System Regents Teaching Excellence Award.
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UW-Eau Claire to be site of NCUR 2023, bringing thousands to community
In the spring of 2023, UW-Eau Claire will be a focal point for undergraduate research worldwide when it hosts more than 4,000 students and their faculty mentors for the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.
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Continuing Education develops timely webinar and hybrid leadership programming
UW-Eau Claire Continuing Education has worked to develop two new high-quality online leadership trainings: "Building Resilient Virtual Teams: a Webinar Series" and "Change Leadership Hybrid Series."
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Continuing Education announces program changes amid COVID-19 pandemic
The health, safety and well-being of our customers remain the top priority for UW-Eau Claire Continuing Education. COVID-19 continues to be a risk across our communities, and we want to share the most recent actions we’ve taken.
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Sonnentag Centre project temporarily suspended
Due to financial and logistical issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Eau Claire Community Complex Inc. has made the decision to temporarily suspend the Sonnentag Centre project.
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UW-Eau Claire students giving back to hometowns during COVID-19
Since the COVID-19 moved classes online and sent many students home for the semester, Blugolds near and far are finding ways to give back to their hometowns during the pandemic.
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UW-Eau Claire health care programs donate personal protective equipment to area facilities
Finding ways to help others during the COVID-19 outbreak comes naturally to Blugolds, and several campus programs and departments made sure that surplus campus supplies of PPE got into the hands of front-line workers.
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UW-Eau Claire, Mayo Clinic and community makers working together to produce face shields for local hospitals
UW-Eau Claire’s Materials Science and Engineering Center is working with Mayo Clinic and a group of community makers to produce face shields for health care workers in all the hospitals in the Chippewa Valley.
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Construction begins on Flesch Family Welcome Center at UW-Eau Claire
Construction of UW-Eau Claire's new Flesch Family Welcome Center is now underway, with expected completion in summer 2021.
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Student teaching takes an unexpected turn as schools move online
When Sierra Parce began student teaching, she knew there would be some bumps in the road. But a pandemic that closes schools wasn't a scenario she ever imagined. Watching teachers step up to support their students in new ways is inspiring, she says.
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'One Read Eau Claire' continues April 4 in online format
A discussion of Bryan Stevenson's "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption" will take place online to comply with Wisconsin's "Safer at Home" order.
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UW-Eau Claire grad working to produce masks for health care workers, others
A UW-Eau Claire graduate who runs a Twin Cities textile company is stepping up to help meet the needs of health care workers and others who are struggling to find enough personal protective equipment to avoid contamination during the coronavirus crisis.
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Campus event cancellations related to COVID-19
Many events have been canceled at UW-Eau Claire, including major signature events and annual series. See the list of the major events impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Saturn’s upper atmosphere to be focus of March 12 ‘Ask a Scientist’ presentation
Jess Vriesema will present an overview of discoveries from NASA's recent Cassini mission beginning at 7 p.m. March 12 at the Acoustic Café in downtown Eau Claire. The event is free and open to all.
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Kaleidoscope of Nursing Scholarship Day, Cancelled - Abstracts NOW due April 24, 2020 by 5PM
Kaleidoscope of Nursing Scholarship Day scheduled for Friday, May 8, 2020 has been cancelled. However, abstracts can still be submitted until 5pm, Wednesday, April 24, 2020.
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‘Thursdays at the U’ welcomes expert Great Lakes diver John Janzen
Janzen, one of region's most experienced technical divers, will share stories of his favorite Great Lakes dives from 12:30-1:30 p.m. March 5 at UW-Eau Claire – Barron County in Rice Lake.
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The Forum welcomes gender violence prevention expert Jackson Katz
The author and global educator, who will address the controversial topic he calls "toxic masculinity" and his efforts to educate about and end gender violence, will speak at 7:30 p.m. March 10 in UW-Eau Claire's Schofield Auditorium.
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UW-Eau Claire to celebrate Women's History Month
In honor of Women's History Month in March, UW-Eau Claire will host a series of events, speakers and discussions aimed at highlighting the issues, lives and accomplishments of women today and throughout history.
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International student joins other Blugolds in studying abroad
Ariel Liu's experience as an international student at UW-Eau Claire has been so positive that it piqued her curiosity about people and cultures in other parts of the world, so Liu did what many Blugolds do — she spent a semester studying abroad.
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Chancellor's Blog: Blugold proud
From Blugold Marching Band members on the high seas to students who joined a recent Chippewa Valley contingent on visits with state legislators in Madison, UW-Eau Claire students have been representing their university well.