Tag Recent sightings
Recent sightings: Windy Conditions
Hoofer Sailing Club instructor George Frio controls the rudder as Steve Modugno, center, and Natalia Peczerski, on the bow of the boat, work…
Recent sightings: Napolitano visits campus
Speaking from Varsity Hall in Union South on Sept. 16, 2011, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano responds to audience questions after delivering…
Recent sightings: Engaging new students
With the new academic semester already rocking along, hundreds of undergraduates mixed and mingled while enjoying free food, live music and a host of…
Recent sightings: First day of class
Students make their way through the front doors of Bascom Hall on the first class day of the new academic year. Jodie Perman…
Recent Sighting: International SOAR
International students listen to a presentation by Tina Hatch, an advisor in International Student Services, about legal information related to staying in the…
Recent sighting: Moving weekend
On Aug. 14, 2011, UW–Madison undergraduates Lisa Diaz (left) and Megan Tyson (right) are surrounded by their possessions on the lawn of their campus-area…
Kids at work: Contractor uses goats to clear hillside
The School of Human Ecology building project on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus attracted numerous visitors this week, as contractor J.P. Cullen & Sons used goats to clear brush from a steep hillside. Thirty-two goats from The Green Goats, of Burlington, Wis., chomped tunnels through dense vegetation and walked up to the construction fence to check out the visitors.
Recent sightings: Movin’ Minds
Olympic runner Suzy Favor Hamilton, a 1991 graduate of UW–Madison, runs through a human tunnel created during a Movin’ Minds exercise class with nearly…
Recent sightings: Sewing seeds
Undergraduate Jenna Mertz, an intern with the Lakeshore Nature Preserve, uses a hand spreader to disperse a mixture of grass and wildflower seeds…
Recent sighting: Auf Wiedersehen!
Chancellor Biddy Martin shakes hands with a long line of well-wishers at a cookout on Bascom Hill on Wednesday, July 13. The event, which…
Recent sightings: WAA’s 150th birthday party
With a giant inflatable version of UW–Madison’s modern-day mascot, Bucky Badger, looming in the background, the 1st Brigade Band performs Civil War-era music during…
Recent sightings: Ice cream social
As the temperature soared into the 90s on June 7, 2011, hundreds of people beat the heat by enjoying servings of Babcock Dairy ice…
Recent sightings: Undergraduate Symposium
Participants look at a poster presentation highlighting bottle biology — an outreach project aimed at K-12 education — and make takeaway samples during the…
Recent sightings: Lakeside light journal
Working on a “light journal” assignment for his Communications Arts 350 class, undergraduate Michael Hebert films abstractions near the convergence of melting Lake Mendota…