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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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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. Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

Recent sighting: A hint of spring?

March 9, 2011

A colorful reminder of milder seasons to come, plant markers indicate a dormant bed of lilies at the Botany Gardens as a heavy, wet… Read More

Recent sightings: New Badger Partnership chat

February 24, 2011

On Feb, 24, 2011, Chancellor Biddy Martin (left), Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell, Director of Human Resources Robert Lavigna (right), and Dean of… Read More

Recent sighting: Moment of Silence

February 21, 2011

Players and fans paused for a moment of silence before the start of the hockey game between Wisconsin and Minnesota on Feb. 19 at… Read More

Recent sightings: TAA organizes march to the Capitol

February 18, 2011

Responding to the call from the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) for a “teach out” on Feb. 17, supporters gathered on Library Mall at… Read More

Recent sightings: Ready, set, answers!

February 16, 2011

With their laptops fired up, UW–Madison academic advisors and Parent Program staff answered a steady stream of questions during a live web chat on… Read More

Recent sightings: Selig Distinguished Lecture

January 28, 2011

Major League Baseball Commissioner Allan H. “Bud” Selig, center, and Jeremi Suri, E. Gordon Fox Professor of History, right, applaud as guest lecturer Adrian… Read More