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Two Blugolds selected for 2024-25 Fulbright awards
Zachary May, who graduated in December 2023, will participate in an English teaching assistantship in Argentina, while May 2023 graduate Anna Wendorff will be an English teaching assistant in South Korea.
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Faculty members recognized as University Fellows, Karlgaard award winners
The recipients of the UW-Eau Claire awards were honored at a March 4 reception.
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Language 4 Lombok
First, I would like to thank everyone for supporting my nonprofit project, Language 4 Lombok. It has been a truly rewarding experience this past year working with each of you and connecting the Chippewa Valley community to rural Indonesia. I felt compelle
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Faculty feature: Dr. Jessica Miller, Wisconsin Language Teacher of the Year
Let’s get to know one of our award-winning faculty members a little better. Dr. Jessica Miller, professor of French at UW-Eau Claire, was named the 2024 Teacher of the Year by the Wisconsin Association For Language Teachers.
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A Note from the Languages Chair
It’s hard to believe that we are approaching the end of another semester. As always, it presented its challenges and successes, as well as one constant, change.
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UW-Eau Claire’s Chinese program receives national award
The university program received the Global Engagement Initiative Award at the 2023 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Convention Nov. 17 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Nursing, Spanish are a caring combination for graduating Blugold
Elise Tipcke, who has had a passion for learning a second language since growing up in a rural Minnesota town, plans to use what she has learned at UW-Eau Claire to help Spanish-speaking people seeking health care.
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Languages Faculty Achievements 2022-2023
The UWEC Languages faculty members had a year full of presentations, publications, and other accomplishments.
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UW-Eau Claire language classes return to Eau Claire elementary school
In connection with a program begun in the UW-Eau Claire languages department in the 1980s, Blugold students once again shared languages and culture while improving their teaching skills at Lakeshore Elementary.
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Tai Chi & Lion Dance: A Celebration of Chinese Culture
To celebrate the Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Languages Department was honored to invite two award-winning artists to our campus this past Tuesday and Wednesday to share authentic Chinese culture with the Eau Claire community.
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Graduate thankful that UW-Eau Claire ‘fostered his international ambitions’
Martin Kocher traveled to Germany, Ukraine, Malta, Dubai, Australia, Southeast Asia and Canada while a student to prepare for his future in international business.
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Congratulations 2023 Languages Award Recipients
Congratulations to all of the recipients of this year's Department of Languages scholarships and awards!
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New UW-Eau Claire graduate will leave a legacy of advocacy for equity, diversity, inclusion
When Rosa Gómez graduates from UW-Eau Claire, she’ll have three degrees and a resume filled with research and other life-changing experiences. She will leave behind a legacy of student advocacy for equity, diversity and inclusion on campus.
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Students newly inducted into the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society
On Thursday March 16, 2023, the Delta Psi Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi Sociedad Nacional Honoraria Hispánica at the University of Wisconsin initiated 18 new Spanish language student members.
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Blugold passionate about future career serving and advocating for the aging population
With a passion for helping people, Annabelle Howat knows the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s health care administration program — with its “a head for business and a heart for caring” slogan — is perfect for her.
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Celebrating Lunar New Year and cultural diversity
Supported by the Languages Department, students in the Chinese language and culture classes celebrated the Lunar New Year in February.