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Blugold volleyball helps CSD graduate student stay calm during academic, clinical experiences
Collegiate athletics helped introduce Arianna Barrett to her academic program and her future career as a speech therapist.
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Couple establishes new research grant to improve lives of people with primary progressive aphasia
A retired UW-Eau Claire nursing professor and her husband are funding a new grant to support research they hope will improve the lives of people diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia (PPA) and advance the understanding of the disease.
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Building her career plans around empathy and cultural awareness: Samantha Ruppert ’22
Fall Creek native and December graduate Samantha Ruppert hopes to build a practice in speech pathology rooted in cultural competency and basic empathy, tools she developed as a highly engaged Blugold.
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UW-Eau Claire’s sustainable printing conversion nearly complete
By the start of the spring 2023 semester, UW-Eau Claire will have fully converted all campus print, copy and fax devices to the sustainable FollowMe mobile print system, reducing the total number of devices from 1016 to 154 across campus.
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Blugold from Alaska finds adventure and knowledge studying abroad in Prague
When Kylie Judd decided to study abroad in Prague, the UW-Eau Claire senior was determined to embrace every opportunity to learn about the culture and history of the Czech Republic. So, Judd said yes to a 35-mile nighttime hike to a holy site.
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Blugold alumni help patients find their voice through speech-language pathology
Three graduates, who started at larger universities before transferring to UW-Eau Claire, now work at Marshfield Medical Center-Marshfield helping to rehabilitate patients with speech and language difficulties.
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University gardening program helps community members build speech and language skills
A community gardening project is helping UW-Eau Claire communication sciences and disorders students gain skills while also helping meet the speech and language needs of community members.
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Blugolds come together to provide hearing screening to young children in Arcadia
Earlier this month, a team of Blugolds — including future speech-language pathologists and Spanish interpreters — worked together to give hearing screenings to children in Arcadia, where more than 86% of students in the elementary school speak Spanish.
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Nursing simulation lab helps future speech-language pathologists gain new skills
More than 30 communication sciences and disorders majors gained new skills and confidence by working alongside nursing majors in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences’ simulation lab.
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Students help Blugold Brain Injury Group members tell their stories to health care providers
Several community members — all part of the Blugold Brain Injury Group, a support group through UW-Eau Claire's communication sciences and disorders department — shared personal stories with health care providers about living with their brain injuries.
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UW-Eau Claire research team studies effects of alcohol on older people
A UW-Eau Claire research team has found that alcohol significantly affects older brains in ways that may threaten their health and well-being, including increasing their risk of falling.
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UW-Eau Claire department sponsors downtown lights for a cause
Lights on the Phoenix Park bridge, Pablo Center at the Confluence and Haymarket Plaza will be aglow in purple and yellow Friday night, Oct. 16, to bring awareness to a “hidden” language disorder.
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Chancellor delivers state-of-the-university message
UW-Eau Claire Chancellor James Schmidt expressed hope during his academic year opening message, that working together and using safeguards put into place will provide for a safe and sustainable return for the fall semester.
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UW-Eau Claire faculty, staff receive 2020 excellence awards
Eight faculty and staff members were recognized during the Aug. 25 opening meeting for their exceptional contributions to UW-Eau Claire.
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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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Honors Student Highlight: Thu McKenzie
Thu took an American Sign Language course and discovered that this is where her passion lies. She changed her path and became a biology major with a chemistry minor and certificate in ASL in order to combine her scientific skills with her passion.