Convocation Lunch & Badger Welcome Dinner Highlights

Bucky’s at it again! Before UW–Madison New Student Convocation, we hosted a welcome lunch outside Gordon and Badger Welcome Dinners at Four Lakes & Gordon Markets. Take a look back at your first celebrations as part of the Badger community as thousands of new Badgers from all 50 states, four districts/territories, and 78 countries/regions around the world came together.

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A sign reading "New Student Convocation Lunch"
A Housing staff member gives two thumbs up while smiling
A person holding a plate full of food up to the camera
Watermelons are pictured in the foreground while students put food on plates in the background
A large tent with people walking up to it
Student staff pose for photo by waste sorting station at Convocation Lunch
Five students pose for photo sitting on Gordon lawn during Convocation Lunch

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Seven people smile for a photo

Three people smile for a photo at a table while two of the people make the letter "W" with their hands

Three people and their full plates

Seven people posing while standing

A cashier staff member waits in the background while a sign reading "Badger Welcome Dinner" is pictured in the foreground
Food is pictured at the Delicious station at Four Lakes Market with large letters reading 'UW" above
Bucky poses with a resident, mother, and father at a table in the Four Lakes Dining Room
Bucky listens to a residents' headphones while the resident smiles in the Gordon Dining Room
Bucky Badger poses with a Dining & Culinary Services staff member
Two students take a selfie with Bucky at Gordon during the Badger Welcome Dinner
Bucky poses for photo with seven dining student staff at the Badger Welcome Dinner at Gordon
Bucky poses for photo with five students at the Badger Welcome Dinner
Bucky joins a group of students at a table at Gordon during the Badger Welcome Dinner
Three people pose while eating lunch