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Recent sightings: Windy Conditions

September 29, 2011

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

September 16, 2011

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

September 12, 2011

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

September 2, 2011

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

August 25, 2011

  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

August 15, 2011

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

July 28, 2011

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

July 19, 2011

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

July 19, 2011

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!

July 13, 2011

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

June 23, 2011

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

June 7, 2011

As the temperature soared into the 90s on June 7, 2011, hundreds of people beat the heat by enjoying servings of Babcock Dairy ice…

Slide show: Talk to the animals

May 5, 2011

Wagging tails and bright eyes — provided by University Health Services on May 5 — helped soothe stress levels as students prepare for final exams.

Recent sightings: Undergraduate Symposium

April 14, 2011

Participants look at a poster presentation highlighting bottle biology — an outreach project aimed at K-12 education — and make takeaway samples during the…

Slide Show: All hands on science

April 4, 2011

Touching it with their own hands — and seeing it with their own eyes — made science come alive for those who attended this year’s Science Expeditions, a campuswide open house at UW–Madison, on April 2.

Recent sightings: Lakeside light journal

April 1, 2011

Working on a “light journal” assignment for his Communications Arts 350 class, undergraduate Michael Hebert films abstractions near the convergence of melting Lake Mendota…

Slide show: Combat Catharsis

March 28, 2011

On March 24-26, 2011, the Combat Paper Project visited the Arts Loft on campus to help military veterans turn their combat uniforms into hand-made paper, which they can then use to create cathartic works of art.