Blugold Supercomputing Cluster News

Blugold James McCormack is enthusiastic about the current focus and rapid advancements in artificial intelligence technology that have significantly increased AI’s impact and potential within the healthcare sector.

As a fall-semester transfer student in 2022, Rachel Horejsi says she began her University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire life feeling a bit alone, not yet connected to campus and still uncertain of the path ahead. But she was ready for the challenge.

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.

Computer science major Brayden Mau understands there is no margin for error in his student-faculty research into the use of artificial intelligence to provide Mayo Clinic Health System physicians with quicker and easier analysis of medical reports.

Dr. Nora Mitchell, an assistant professor of biology, and three biology students spent a month in South Africa this summer collecting research data on plant pollination in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots.

Dr. William Wolf, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at UW-Eau Claire, received a five-year, $526,813 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to work with undergraduate students on research beginning this summer.