Recent Sightings

Sighting
Student Lindsay Theis peers through a survey instrument during a geography class on Bascom Hill taught by professor Jim Knox. Fall classes began Sept. 4, and many less-fortunate students began their semester in the lecture hall. (Photo: Jeff Miller)

UW Health phlebotomist Jennifer Prochaska learns how to extinguishing a fire at a Safety Department training session led by Dale Kidd. Kidd and Mike Bubrick train roughly 700 people per year in the use of portable fire extinguishers. The fire extinguisher shop is part of the Safety Department, which inspects and maintains all extinguishers and fire suppression systems for campus and the hospital. To get trained, call 265-0693 or 265-5923. (Photo: Jeff Miller)

Nietzchka Keene checks a camera angle while setting up a shot for her third feature film, “Barefoot to Jerusalem,” in Studio D, Vilas Hall. Keene, the Emily Mead Baldwin Bell-Bascom Professor in the Creative Arts, is one of the most prolific and accomplished filmmakers working in academe. Her previous feature films, “The Juniper Tree” and “The Heroine of Hell,” have received wide acclaim, been selected for screening at prestigious film festivals and won substantial outside support. In addition to her teaching duties, she devotes time to independent study projects to give students specialized training. (Photo: Stephanie Judge)