Office of Research and Sponsored Programs News
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Faculty mentors help new grad succeed despite health challenges and pandemic
Amelia Montie credits a team of faculty mentors for helping her thrive at UW-Eau Claire, including during her final semester of college as she is managing a new diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes as well as a global pandemic that moved all classes online.
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New grad built connections, embraced opportunities to make most of college
As Monica Dickson prepares to graduate this spring with a major in biology and a minor in chemistry, she says UW-Eau Claire’s supportive campus community is a big part of the reason she can pursue her dream of becoming a veterinarian.
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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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28th annual student research event, CERCA, to take place online April 27-May 1
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the annual Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity event (CERCA) will take place virtually this year. The site will be open and accessible to everyone, with no campus login required.
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Dr. Jim Phillips receives national award for research mentoring
Phillips, professor and chair of the UW-Eau Claire chemistry department, is a 2020 recipient of the CUR Outstanding Mentorship Award, which recognizes excellence in mentoring undergraduate researchers.
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Geology major Trevor Nelson named UW-Eau Claire’s newest Goldwater Scholar
UW-Eau Claire geology major Trevor Nelson recently was named a recipient of a 2020 Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious U.S. national scholarships for future natural sciences, mathematics and engineering research leaders.
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Elizabeth Glogowski honored for innovation through research with students
As the leader of innovative faculty-student collaborative research at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Dr. Elizabeth Glogowski has been honored as one of just three UW System 2020 Regent Scholars.
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Blugold leads Mayo Clinic research team developing COVID-19 tests
Sara Lassila, who earned a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from UW-Eau Claire, is a test development supervisor at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Her team developed a test that can detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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Dr. Catherine Chan to lead UW-Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
Dr. Catherine Chan, an experienced undergraduate research program administrator and longtime faculty research mentor to students, has been named executive director of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
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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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Immersion gives Blugolds new appreciation for, understanding of Hmong culture
UW-Eau Claire's “Cultural Practices of the Hmong in Fresno, California” Winterim immersion program, now in its fifth year, helps heritage and non-heritage students learn more about the Hmong culture.
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Environmental and social justice focus of immersion in Guatemala
A group of Blugolds spent part of Winterim in Guatemala as part of an immersion program that focuses on social and environmental justice.
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Larson Tenure-Track Time Reassignment Collaborative Research Program awardees announced
Six UW-Eau Claire faculty members are the first to receive awards from a new program to support tenure-track faculty as they develop and enhance their scholarship, and to encourage them to do so in collaboration with students.
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Boundary Waters research attracts media attention
A UW-Eau Claire research team’s discovery of microplastics in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota has generated a lot of interest, with media from throughout the Midwest, as well as some national media, featuring their work.
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Dr. April Bleske-Rechek to receive national award for research mentoring
Already recognized on campus multiple times for her excellence in mentoring, Dr. April Bleske-Rechek, professor of psychology, will receive the Mid-Career Mentoring Award from the psychology division of the Council on Undergraduate Research.
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'Blugold Spotlight' features Dr. Karen Havholm
A mentor, educator, researcher and geologist, she's fostering scholarship one research project at a time.
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NSF grant to boost supercomputing at UW-Eau Claire
A recent $350,000 award from the National Science Foundation will more than double the high-performance computing capacity for faculty and students at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, but the grant’s impact will not stop there.
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A rare opportunity to study genetic disorders: Mayo Clinic graduate research
Allie Welter, a 2018 UW-Eau Claire graduate, spent five months researching at Mayo Clinic as part of a team that seeks treatment and understanding of a rare genetic heart defect. For Welter, motivation for this pioneering work is very personal.
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Blugold Spotlight features Dr. Todd Wellnitz
Where there is water, there is life. And, if you look closely, you might just see wildlife in places where you least expect it.
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Blugolds value summer research experiences with Mayo doctors
Last summer, three UW-Eau Claire students worked alongside Eau Claire-based physicians as part of Mayo Clinic’s Undergraduate Research Employment Program. The program was offered for the first time in Eau Claire this year.
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Research team finds microplastics in Boundary Waters wilderness area
Microplastics have made their way into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a wilderness area in northern Minnesota, according to a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire research team. Researchers found microplastics in earthworms, water and soils.
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Dangers of vaping topic of nursing research, presentation
A UW-Eau Claire nursing student and professor are working to educate teens and young adults about the dangers of vaping, which has become a national public health epidemic.
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UW-Eau Claire grad now leading his own undergrad research team
Nearly a decade ago, Adam Schneider was among the first Blugolds to work on research in the Galapagos Islands. This summer, the UW-Eau Claire grad returned to the same research center, this time as a faculty mentor leading his own student researchers.
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Researchers create tools to test hearing in people who speak Hmong
Speech-language pathologists will eventually have a better option for testing the hearing of their patients who speak Hmong thanks to the work of a UW-Eau Claire faculty-student research team.