UW-Eau Claire

August 13, 2025

Jennifer Shaw is a resident of the East Hill neighborhood in Eau Claire, across the street from the skateboard space within Boyd Park. Shaw says the addition of the skate park has improved the 100-year-old community park, despite what she has seen as somewhat of a historic community bias against skateboarding. “When I was young […]

August 5, 2025

Thanks to the collaboration agreement between the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Mayo Clinic Health System, an interdisciplinary Blugold research project recently received key financial support that can take it to the next level. Dr. Nicholas Beltz, associate professor of kinesiology, and Dr. Marc Mc Ellistrem, professor of materials science and biomedical engineering, have spent […]

July 15, 2025

When Blugold senior Samara Gries learned of a summer opportunity to earn credit taking a three-week, grant-funded, multicampus field study course in hydrology through the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, it seemed too good to pass up. “I wasn’t sure what to expect, to be honest,” says Gries, a hydrogeology major with a minor in chemistry. […]

June 26, 2025

“I think there are so many problems to solve in healthcare,” says James McCormack, a third-year University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire computer science major from Eagle River. “There are so many different diseases, so many different conditions, and as a computer scientist in the AI space, I think we have the tools to solve these problems.” […]

June 12, 2025

Faculty and student researchers from UW-Eau Claire’s Materials Science and Engineering and Kinesiology departments are working together to advance research on vibrating gloves designed to assist individuals with Parkinson’s disease. In collaboration with a physician with Mayo Clinic Health System, their goal is to develop a technology that is not only effective but also accessible—helping […]

May 28, 2025

As an eight-year-old, Aaron Shue was fascinated by the medical equipment in the hospital intensive care unit where his mother, a registered nurse, worked as a supervisor. That early exposure to nursing gave him perspective on the profession. “My mom would tell me about the different struggles she faced both bedside and as a manager, […]

May 19, 2025

Most students expect to face some challenges during college, academically and otherwise. Nothing, however, could have prepared Emily Casey for the difficulties she faced in her first year at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire — physical and emotional struggles that nearly pushed her to give up her college dreams. “In the fall of my first […]

April 21, 2025

Creating a vision of our future beyond the familiar in our world can be a challenge. For Lyndsie Vickers, a high school trip to a Future Farmers of America conference in her native Oklahoma provided her a whole new career vision. Vickers presented as part of a group project on water filtration systems, a key […]

April 9, 2025

Blugold undergraduates used their creativity and problem-solving skills to develop solutions to healthcare challenges in the inaugural Mayo Clinic/University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Innovation Health Challenge. Seven groups of students worked with UW-Eau Claire faculty and Mayo Clinic Health System mentors during the 2024-25 academic year on healthcare problems that included product development, process improvement and […]

March 28, 2025

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire will offer new majors in artificial intelligence in fall 2025 to prepare Blugolds for the rapidly changing workforce that is increasingly reliant on AI tools. The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Feb. 7 approved the bachelor of arts and bachelor of science majors in the department of computer science. The […]