Tag Recent sightings
Recent sightings: Going up!
Students from the Hoofer Mountaineering Club practice their skills on the rock-climbing wall at Union South.
Recent Sightings: Frosty Morning
Steam and heat hit frigid air on Feb. 1, 2013, as the sun begins to rise over the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus and downtown Madison isthmus during a winter morning when the temperature was six below zero. The dawn view is from the roof of the Engineering Research Building. (Photo by Jeff Miller/UW-Madison)
Recent sightings: Fireworks for pediatrics patients
More than 250 pediatrics patients and their families were invited to the Pyle Center Rooftop Terrace and lakeside Alumni Lounge on campus for a…
Recent sightings: Inside out
On June 21, 2012, catering staff set out glassware in advance of an event being held at the Chazen Museum of Art. Outside in…
Recent sightings: Union Theater’s ‘Curtain Down Party’
Anita Laabs (right) helps Savanna Shropshire (left) try on an assortment of costumes in a dressing room backstage at the Wisconsin Union Theater’s “Curtain…
Recent sightings: No worries
As the days between now and commencement begin ticking down, students danced the night away at Club Bucky held in the backyard of Witte…
Recent sightings: Terrace rally
U.S. Representative Ron Paul addresses a crowd estimated at 2,500 at the Memorial Union Terrace on Thursday, March 29 as he campaigns for the…
Recent sightings: A study in color
Below the glow of multi-colored lights, students are seen studying in a common area of 333 East Campus Mall on March 21, 2012.
Recent sightings: Welcome warmth
Students took in the unseasonably warm weather by relaxing on Bascom Hill in mid-March. In a string of days that hit the 70s and…
Recent sightings: Classroom innovation
A laptop computer provides another resource as students discuss questions and answers in small groups during an open test in an undergraduate zoology class…
Recent Sightings: Homage to Bucky
Taking advantage of freshly fallen snow — which has been unusually sparse this winter — an unknown artist creates Bucky Badger on Bascom…
Recent sightings: Wonders of Physics
Physics student Blaine Law (right) uses the pressure of liquid nitrogen changing from a liquid to a gas to power a canon during a…
Recent sightings: Cosmic dynamo installation
With the exterior doors temporarily removed from Sterling Hall, workers move a three-meter diameter, hollow aluminum sphere, an essential component of the Madison Plasma…
Recent sighting: UW Mad Gaffers Holiday Glass Sale
Patrons browse a selection of glass artwork offered for sale during the annual UW Mad Gaffers Holiday Glass Sale at the glass lab at…
Slide show: 2011 in review
University Communications’ photographers have culled through hundreds of options for favorite images from 2011 that capture the campus through four seasons, major building projects and initiatives, transitions in leadership, learning inside and outside the classroom, research in progress, the Wisconsin Idea in practice, and Badger spirit in its many forms.
Recent sightings: Board of Regents meeting
UW-Madison Interim Chancellor David Ward speaks about strategic approaches to resource stewardship during the UW Board of Regents meeting at Union South on Thursday,…
Slide show: A Building Abuzz
The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery offers proof positive that promises can be kept. Since opening in December 2010, the 300,000-square-foot building is delivering on original plans for an innovative, sustainable space, and is providing an environment that fosters collaborative science and hosts public outreach activities.
Recent sightings: Autumn glow
Autumn-colored foliage clings to the exterior windows of the Memorial Union as nighttime falls and visitors talk inside under the warm glow of lights…
Recent sightings: EPA leader visits
Lisa Jackson (center right), administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency listens as James Thomson (right), director of regenerative biology at the Morgridge Institute…