By Katherine Macek For the CVPost When the Peace Corps released its 2014 top volunteer-producing colleges this year, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire made the 24 spot in medium-sized schools, making the list for the first time ever. Janice McInerary, a Twin Cities-based Peace Corps recruiter, is the adviser for UW-Eau Claire students who […]
Registration open for “Senior Americans Day” at UW-Eau Claire
The 27th Annual “Senior Americans Day” will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on June 2 at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s W.R. Davies Center. Community members who are 55 and older are invited to choose from more than 30 inspiring breakout sessions in which they can learn about local history, cultural diversity, […]
Blugold in Hong Kong shares his experience
By UW-Eau Claire News Bureau The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s study abroad program at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University was established in 2013 and is open to students from the College of Business. Reid Gresens, a junior accounting and finance major from Green Bay, is studying there this spring semester and is the first UW-Eau […]
Students honored for campus racial climate study
By UW-Eau Claire News Bureau For their study of the racial climate at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, three Blugold students were among presenters receiving top honors at the recent UW System Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity. Tristen Back, a social work major from Nekoosa, Jessica Valdespino, a psychology major from Waukesha, and […]
Marathon Man: Meet the man behind EC Marathon’s “Blugold Mile”
By UW-Eau Claire News Bureau The 2,000-plus runners who participated in the 2015 Eau Claire Marathon had a surprise waiting for them as they neared the end of the race – hundreds of Blugolds were there to cheer them on as they ran through the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s lower campus. Members of student […]
Altoona woman completes first-ever University Honors thesis at UW-Eau Claire
By UW-Eau Claire News Bureau A University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire senior biology major with an interest in forensic science soon will graduate with a distinction not conferred on any student who has attended the institution before her. Nikki Weiss, an anthropology and chemistry minor from Altoona, is completing and defending the first-ever senior University Honors […]