Recent Sightings Recent sightings: Summer SOAR

A New Student Leader tour guide leads incoming first-year undergraduates and their parents across Bascom Hill while on a campus tour during a Student Orientation, Advising and Registration (SOAR) session on July 22. Sponsored by the Center for the First-Year Experience, the two-day SOAR sessions provide new students and their parents an opportunity to meet with staff and advisors, register for classes, stay in a residence hall, take a campus tour and learn about campus resources.

UW Police Department detective Carolyn Glassmaker talks to parents about topics of personal health and campus safety.

Letters and Science Cross-College advisor Adrienne Thunder (center) works with incoming first-year undergraduates to register for their classes.

SOAR attendees, including Ricky Cheung (left) and Kori Freeman (right), get to know one another via an exercise using fast-paced introductions during a SOAR “Insider’s Guide” session held at the Mosse Humanities Building.

Students and their parents attend a session at the Sewell Social Sciences Building.

Student Organization Office staff member Beau Levinson (right) talks with students and their parents during a campus resource fair.