Recent sightings

Arts Night Out!
Musicians and a dancer perform “Eclipse Seasons” at the Wisconsin Union Theater Sept. 20 as part of Arts Night Out!, an evening that featured the many opportunities for visual and performance arts on campus. (Photo: Micahel Forster Rothbart)

 

Big rig
Space Science Engineering Center mechanical engineer Jim Green tests a 33-foot-long hose reel, part of a drilling rig for the IceCube neutrino telescope, outside the Physical Sciences Laboratory in Stoughton on Sept. 19. The reel, with 1.8 miles of hot-water hose wrapped around the spindle, will be deployed soon to Antartica, where hot water will be used to drill through ice to create kilometer-deep holes into which strings of bowling ball-sized photomultiplier tubes will be placed deep beneath the ice at the South Pole. (Photo: Micahel Forster Rothbart)

 

‘Welcome to the Monkey House’
Author Kurt Vonnegut speaks Sept. 23 in the Wisconsin Union Theater as the first event in the Wisconsin Union Directorate’s 2003-04 Distinguished Lecture Series. The next speaker is author Salman Rushdie, scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 28. (Photo: Micahel Forster Rothbart)