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UW-Eau Claire research team works with Eau Claire Downtown Farmers Market to address food insecurity
A UW-Eau Claire faculty-student research team is collecting and analyzing data relating to a community initiative that helps people who are food insecure to purchase more fresh, local and healthy foods at the Eau Claire Downtown Farmers Market.
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Guatemalan immersion program helps Blugolds build Spanish skills, cultural awareness
Fifteen Blugolds were part of the 2022 “Guatemala: Social and Environmental Justice Winterim Immersion Program” during UW-Eau Claire's Winterim session. They learned about Latin American history, as well as social and environmental justice.
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Using Art to Serve the Community
When passion and service intersect, that’s where magic happens. For junior Kate Netwal, a graphic designer with the student run magazine NOTA, that’s exactly what’s happening for her.
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Providing Vaccines and Making New Connections
When Ceaglske first started settling into Eau Claire, she felt the need to immediately start looking for volunteer opportunities. One of the first options that she found was an opportunity with the Mayo Health Clinic helping distribute Covid vaccines.
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Cultural and Historical Understanding through the lens of Service-Learning
History is a topic that can both be inspiring and positive but also a topic that can be violent and distressing. This is why Ethan Teow, an Actuarial Science major from Penang, Malaysia, decided to become a coordinator with the Civil Rights Pilgrimage.
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Dusting off the Skates: A Blugold’s Return to Hockey
It’s not often when work and play combine, but for Jack Frederick, a second year Blugold from Mankato, Minnesota, that’s exactly what happened when he combined his childhood passion for hockey with Service-Learning.
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Blugolds help native Spanish speakers better access health care in the Chippewa Valley
Two Blugolds are making it easier for Spanish-speaking people to access health care more easily in the Chippewa Valley. Erin Fitzgerald and Breida Torres Berumen are translating some of the Chippewa Valley Free Clinic’s written materials into Spanish.
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Blugold Fights Fires and Provides Essential Services for Community
Emily Decker, a fourth year Environmental Geography major, hailing from Tomahawk, Wisconsin used her passion for helping people as well as her long time connection to her hometown volunteer fire department to create a unique service-learning project.
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Blugold Helps Connect Local Resident to Health Resources
Bethany Schweiner, a third year Kinesiology-Rehabilitation Science major, turned her interest in the healthcare industry into a unique way to serve the community.
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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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Blugold Helps Young Students Participate in Government
Jackson Lindquist, a senior at UWEC majoring in psychology with a certificate in legal studies, decided that to complete his service-learning he wanted to work with high schoolers in the YMCA’s Youth in Government program to inspire interest and passion f
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Blugold Guides Visually Impaired Runners and Skiers For Past Four Years
Wyatt Pajtash is a fourth year student majoring in geology and economics at UWEC from Drummond, Wisconsin and for his Service-Learning, he worked to guide visually impaired athletes from his high school in Cross-Country and skiing.
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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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Blugold with Passion for Service Becomes a Camp Counselor
Senior Alexa Shelton, a business administration major and economics minor——interested in working with nonprofits after graduation—decided to work with Camp Odayin to complete her service-learning.
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Service, immersions and internships add value to Blugold's college career
Lydia Ishmael has been creating art since she was a young girl. But it was a plethora of experiences she found as a Blugold on and off campus that helped the new grad see where her artistic talents and passions can take her.
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Blugold Gains More From Translation Experience
Cimiaskaite, a marketing analytics major and a Spanish minor, wanted to put her language skills to use and volunteered as a translator to help the Health Care Network provide care to Hispanic members of the Racine community.