1. Blugolds assist effort to add 143-year-old bridge to historic register

    Photo of the 900-foot-long High Bridge that spans the Chippewa River just downriver from Dell’s Dam, which is officially named the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Bridge, but is referred to locally as the High Bridge because its deck is approximately 80 feet above the normal river level.

    An effort that started seven years ago in a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire history class culminated this spring when Eau Claire’s oldest railroad bridge was added to the State Register of Historic Places. The Wisconsin Historical Society named the 143-year-old High Bridge to the state register in May after it was determined to be significant […]

  2. UW-Eau Claire students, faculty collaborate with Wisconsin industry on defense contract

    Photo of (from left) Dr. Deidra Gerlach, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, working with students Jackie Bradley and Connor Koepp.

    University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire students and faculty are working with a small Wisconsin manufacturer on a Department of Defense contract to develop a more environmentally friendly, anti-corrosive product for use in military equipment. The two-year, $231,709 government subcontract received by Dr. Deidra Gerlach, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is the first of its kind […]

  3. UWEC’s Academic Intervention Clinic serves community, trains Blugolds

    Photo of Blugold psychology graduate student Bryn Hermanson of Berlin working with an elementary school student under the supervision of Dr. Melissa Coolong-Chaffin, professor of psychology and co-director of the Academic Intervention Clinic.

    Blugold undergraduate and graduate students are helping to improve academic skills for Chippewa Valley elementary and middle school students again this summer at the Academic Intervention Clinic in the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s Human Development Center. The clinic’s summer program has been operating for 15 years assessing reading skills for children in grades 1-8 and […]

  4. Blugold alumnus nominated for multiple Tony Awards in producing debut

    Photo of Larry Lelli, who graduated from UW-Eau Claire in 1990 with a degree in applied instrumental music and has had a nearly 30-year career on Broadway, performing as a drummer and percussionist.

    Larry Lelli didn’t know that his undergraduate work helping to organize Jazz Fest on the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire campus would give him the skills to be a producer for two Tony Award-nominated Broadway shows more than three decades later. “Jazz Fest was a massive operation that taught me so much about, literally, operating a […]

  5. UW-Eau Claire esports scholarships reward gamers

    Photo of UW-Eau Claire esports gamer: First-year student Christopher Brockert, left, received a $2,000 esports scholarship for the 2024-25 academic year. Nate Garvey, right, advisor for the university’s Esports Club, was at Kimberly High School for Brockert’s signing day.

    Some incoming freshmen at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire are being rewarded for their competitive video gaming skills with esports scholarships. For the second straight year, UW-Eau Claire is offering five, one-time $2,000 scholarships to first-year students for the 2024-25 academic year. Billy Felz, UW-Eau Claire’s vice chancellor for enrollment management, says colleges across the […]

  6. Scheels Sport For All Camp to provide multisport experience for youth at UW-Eau Claire

    Photo of high school students arriving on campus and checking in at the dorms for the Badger Boys State camp. UW-Eau Claire hosts multiple sports camps and will be adding the new Scheels Sport For All Camp this summer. (UW-Eau Claire)

    University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire athletics is partnering with Scheels Sporting Goods to provide opportunities for boys and girls to learn leadership through athletics in a positive multisport camp experience. The collaboration on the new Scheels Sport For All Camp on campus in July is based on a shared belief by Scheels and UW-Eau Claire that […]

  7. UW-Eau Claire recognized for its wellness program

    Photo of UW-Eau Claire campus

    University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire students, faculty and staff are moving toward better health thanks to a globally recognized wellness program collaboration between the university and Mayo Clinic Health System. UW-Eau Claire is among 145 universities and colleges around the world honored by Exercise is Medicine, earning a silver-level designation in the community-impact initiative of the […]

  8. UW-Eau Claire student, firefighter Albert Lin serves the greater good

    Photo of University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire biology student Albert Lin, who graduates May 2024

    University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire biology student Albert Lin did not expect his undergraduate experience to include fighting fires and saving lives. The Evansville native attended UW-Eau Claire with plans to focus primarily on his academics. But he soon learned of a public-service opportunity from a peer in his chemistry course about becoming a firefighter for […]

  9. UW-Eau Claire student wins prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

    Photo of third-year student Devin Sobottka, one of only six students selected for the Goldwater Scholarship this year from a Universities of Wisconsin campus.

    Devin Sobottka spent seven years working in warehouses while trying to find the right job fit for his associate degree in information technology networking. When the pandemic hit, Sobottka reevaluated his career and decided to pursue his true passion ­— chemistry — at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Sobottka’s decision to return to UW-Eau Claire […]

  10. UW-Eau Claire expands speech therapy and audiology service options for community

    Photo of UW-Eau Claire campus in fall

    The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s Center for Communication Disorders (CCD) is expanding its speech-language health care service options to respond to community needs after the announcement that multiple clinics and hospitals are closing in the Chippewa Valley. HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire and HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chippewa Falls will close along […]