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University of Wisconsin-Madison
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded in 1848, UW-Madison is the flagship school of the University of Wisconsin System. Enrollment is over 42,000 students, of whom approximately 29,000 are undergraduates.[1] A public, land-grant university, the University of Wisconsin-Madison is categorized as an RU/VH Research University (very high research activity) in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.[2] The university offers a wide spectrum of scholarly studies, professional programs, and student activities. Referred to as a "Public Ivy,"[3][4] UW-Madison ranked second among American universities in research and development expenditures for the 2006 fiscal year, generating more than $800 million in research, according to statistics compiled by the National Science Foundation.[5] U.S. News & World Report ranked UW-Madison as the eighth-best public university in the United States in 2008.[6] Wisconsin's NCAA Division I athletic teams are called the Badgers. They compete in the Big Ten Conference in all sports except ice hockey, where they participate in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. History
Science Hall, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was partly designed by former UW-Madison student Frank Lloyd Wright The Wisconsin Idea
Located on the West end of campus, Allen Centennial Gardens is maintained by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences ExpansionOver time, additional campuses were added to the University. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was created in 1956, and UW-Green Bay and UW-Parkside in 1968. Ten freshman-sophomore centers were also added to this system.[11] In 1971, Wisconsin legislators passed a law merging the University of Wisconsin with the nine universities and four freshman-sophomore branch campuses of the Wisconsin State Universities System, creating the University of Wisconsin System and bringing the two higher education systems under a single board of regents. Student activism
Bascom Hill, 1968, with crosses placed by students protesting the Vietnam War, and sign reading, "BASCOM MEMORIAL CEMETERY, CLASS OF 1968" Another target of protest was the Army Mathematics Research Center (AMRC), located in Sterling Hall. The student newspaper, The Daily Cardinal, published a series of investigative articles that made a convincing case that AMRC was pursuing research directly pursuant to US Department of Defense requests, and supportive of military operations in Vietnam. AMRC became a magnet for demonstrations, in which protesters chanted "U.S. out of Vietnam! Smash Army Math!" 
Sign near Sterling Hall commemorating fatal 1970 bomb attack On August 24, 1970, near 3:40 AM, a bomb exploded next to Sterling Hall, aimed at destroying the Army Math Research Center. Despite the late hour, a post-doctoral physics researcher, Robert Fassnacht, was in the lab and was killed in the explosion. The physics department was damaged worse than the intended target, the AMRC. Karleton Armstrong, Dwight Armstrong, and David Fine were found responsible for the blast. Leo Burt was identified as a suspect, but was never apprehended or tried. Timeline of notable eventsOther notable historical moments in the first 150 years of the University of Wisconsin-Madison include:
Academics
"Sifting and winnowing" plaque on Bascom Hall The largest university college, the College of Letters and Science, enrolls approximately half of the undergraduate student body and is made up of thirty-nine departments and five professional schools[12] that instruct students and carry out research in a wide variety of fields, such as astronomy, economics, geography, history, linguistics, and zoology. RankingsReferred to as one of the "Public Ivies"—publicly-funded universities providing a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League[13][14]—the UW-Madison is one of 62 elected members of the Association of American Universities,[15] an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. The stature of the University as a leading scholarly and research institution is reflected in the rankings it has garnered from both academic and popular sources. Of 38 programs at the UW-Madison that were included in the National Research Council's 1995 study, 16 ranked in the top 10 nationally.[16][17] In 2007, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that 57 disciplines at the UW-Madison were in the top 10 in the U.S. in scholarly productivity.[18] In the Gourman report on undergraduate programs, the University of Wisconsin-Madison was ranked the third-best public university, after the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Michigan. Additionally, it was ranked the seventh-best university in the United States for overall strength of the undergraduate programs. In the Academic Ranking of World Universities, published by the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University,[19] the University of Wisconsin-Madison was ranked as the 17th best university in the world. UW-Madison is second only to Harvard in the number of alumni with doctorates, and leads the nation in number of alumni in the Peace Corps.[20] In U.S. News & World Report's 2009 ranking of US colleges, Wisconsin ranked 35th in the "national universities" category.[21] In addition to being a top-ranked school in geography, history, journalism, and sociology, the university was ranked the second-best college at which to earn an education degree. Washington Monthlys 2007 college rankings placed Wisconsin eighteenth, based not only on academic measures, but also student research, public service, and social mobility.[22] A 2004 study by Bloomberg News found that UW-Madison tied Harvard for producing the most CEOs at Standard & Poor?s 500 companies.[23] ResearchSince its founding as a land-grant university, Wisconsin has been active in research in a broad range of fields. In 2007?2008, the school allocated $832 million towards research on campus. This meant UW-Madison was second in the country in generating research funding, behind Johns Hopkins University.[24] Collectively, its research programs were also sixth in the number of patents issued in 2005.[25] Overall, the University maintains almost 100 research centers and programs, ranging from agriculture to arts, from education to engineering.[26] It has been considered a major academic center for embryonic stem cell research ever since UW-Madison professor James Thomson became the first scientist to isolate human embryonic stem cells. This has brought significant attention and respect for the University's research programs from around the world. The University continues to be a leader in stem cell research, helped in part by the funding of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and promotion of WiCell.[27] The University is well known for its graduate mechanical engineering and industrial engineering programs and is highly ranked in the areas of nuclear engineering, computer science, and animal science. Its center for research on internal combustion engines, called the Engine Research Center, has a five-year collaboration agreement with General Motors.[28] It has also been the recipient of multi-million dollar funding from the federal government.[29] The University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of thirty sea grant colleges in the United States. These colleges are involved in scientific research, education, training, and extension projects geared toward the conservation and practical use of U.S. coasts, the Great Lakes and other marine areas. In January, 2008, The Badger Herald, a student publication, reported that in June, 2007, the US Department of Agriculture cited the University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Animal Resource Center for multiple violations of the Animal Welfare Act, including not using painkillers in animals undergoing painful procedures, improper monitoring of animals, and not reporting medical problems to staff veterinarians.[30] Letters & Science Honors ProgramThe L&S Honors Program serves over 1,700 students in the College of Letters and Science (the UW-Madison's liberal arts college) with an enriched undergraduate curriculum. In addition to its curriculum, the program offers professional advising services, grants, scholarships, and awards, and numerous academic, social, and service opportunities through the Honors Student Organization. The Honors Program also supports several student organizations, such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison Forensics Team. Campus
Bascom Hill The UW-Madison has its own police force, food service, hospital, recreation facilities, botanical gardens, power facilities, and an on-campus dairy. 
Bascom Hall atop Bascom Hill at the heart of the campus. Bascom HallAs one of the icons on campus, Bascom Hall,[31] at the top of Bascom Hill, is often considered the "heart of the campus." Built in 1857, a decorative dome that once sat atop the structure was destroyed by fire. The structure has been added to several times over the years. The building currently houses the office of the university's chancellor and vice chancellors. Bascom Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing building within the Bascom Hill Historic District.[32] 
Music Hall Music HallThis Victorian Gothic building, built in 1878 and initially named Assembly Hall, was designed to house an 800-seat auditorium, a library, and a clock tower. Dedicated on March 2, 1880, the building originally held conventions, dances, and commencement ceremonies, along with its primary purpose of a library. After the library moved to a different building on campus, a portion of the hall was assigned to the School of Music in 1900. Shortly after renovations in the early 1900s, the building was officially named Music Hall in 1910. It remains an important music venue and is home to the university opera.[33] This building also is home to the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, with part of the building being used as office space and classrooms. The Wisconsin Union
Memorial Union with Library Mall in foreground Memorial Union is home to many arts venues, including several art galleries, a movie theater, the Wisconsin Union Theater, and the Craftshop, which provides courses and facilities for engaging in a variety of arts and crafts. The Memorial Union is also home to the only business on campus owned and operated solely by students, ASM StudentPrint. Students and Madison community members alike congregate at the Memorial Union for the films and concerts each week. An advisory referendum to renovate and expand Memorial Union was approved by the student body, and the university is currently in the planning phase for the expansion.[34] Union South, the newer campus union, is at the southwest end of campus. It was built in the 1970s to alleviate the pressure for space on Memorial Union. Union South has mainly served users of the UW-Madison's science-related buildings, but is also a home for social and recreational activities, including weekly dances by student groups, music and film series, and bowling leagues. Plans to tear down and construct a new "green" Union South have been approved by the student body and are currently in the planning phase.[35] The Wisconsin Union also provides a home for the Wisconsin Union Directorate Student Programming Board (WUD), which provides regular programs for both students and community members. Among the most prominent members of the WUD are the Wisconsin Hoofers, a club involved in organized outdoor recreational activities.[36] Charter Street Power Plant
This 9.8 megawatt coal power plant is located two blocks south of the busiest part of the Madison campus. In June 2007 it was reported that runoff from the coal pile behind the Charter St. Plant may be draining into the stormwater system and that the pollutants could contain arsenic and other heavy metals.[41] George L. Mosse Humanities Building
A view of the Wisconsin State Capitol from atop Bascom Hill. Mosse Humanities building is on the right while the Wisconsin Historical Society (fore) and Memorial Library (rear) on the left. The George L. Mosse Humanities Building, located on Library Mall, was built in the late 1960s in the Brutalist style. Campus myth has it that the building (with its poor ventilation, narrow windows, inclined base, and cantilevered upper floors) was designed to be "riot-proof" in that it was inescapable by protestors and easily penetratable by a SWAT Team. Its seven floors house the History, Art, and Music departments. The most recent Campus Master Plan calls for it to be demolished and replaced with two other buildings. LibrariesWisconsin has the 10th largest research library collection in North America, according to a survey by the Association of Research Libraries in 2005-06.[42] Memorial Library, along with more than 40 other professional and special-purpose libraries, serve the campus.[43] As of July 2008, the campus library collections included more than 7.3 million volumes representing human inquiry through all of history. In addition, the collections comprise more than 55,000 serial titles, 6.2 million microfilm items, and over 7 million items in other formats, such as government documents, maps, musical scores, and audiovisual materials. Over 1 million volumes are circulated to library users every year.[44] Memorial Library serves as the principal research facility on campus for the humanities and social sciences. It houses the largest single library collection in the state of Wisconsin?-more than 3.5 million volumes. This library also houses an extensive periodical collection, a large selection of domestic and foreign newspapers, Special Collections,[45] the University Archives,[46] the Mills Music Library,[47] a letterpress printing museum,[48] and the UW Digital Collections Center.[49] Undergraduates can find many of the resources they need at College Library in Helen C. White Hall.[50] Special collections include Ethnic Studies, Career, Women's and Gaus (Poetry). The Open Book collection, created to support the extra-academic interests of undergraduates, features DVDs, audio books, and video games, along with paperback books.[51] The library features a coffee shop, the Open Book Café.[52] College Library also houses an extensive media center with over 200 computer workstations available for student use, DVD editing stations, scanners, poster printing, and equipment checkout (including 140 laptops, digital cameras, projectors, and more). The Kurt F. Wendt Library[53] serves the College of Engineering[54] and the Departments of Computer Sciences,[55] Statistics,[56] and Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences.[57] In addition to books, journals, and standards, Wendt Library houses over 1.5 million technical reports in print and microfiche. Designated a Patent and Trademark Depository Library, it maintains all U.S. utility, design, and plant patents in various formats, and provides reference tools and searching assistance for both the general public and the UW-Madison community. The online catalog for UW-Madison Libraries is MadCat.[58] It includes bibliographic records for books, periodicals, audiovisual materials, maps, music scores, microforms, and computer databases currently owned by over 40 campus libraries, as well as records for items that are on order. The UW-Madison Libraries website provides access to a number of resources licensed for use by those affiliated with UW-Madison in addition to those openly available on the World Wide Web. 
Wisconsin Historical Society Library MuseumsThe Geology Museum features rocks, minerals, and fossils from around the world. Highlights include a blacklight room, a walk-through cave, and a fragment of the Barringer meteorite. Some noteworthy fossils include the first dinosaur skeleton assembled in Wisconsin (an Edmontosaurus), a shark (Squalicorax) and a floating colony of sea lilies (Uintacrinus), both from the Cretaceous chalk of Kansas, and the Boaz Mastodon, a found on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin in 1897.[59] The Chazen Museum of Art, formerly the Elvehjem Museum of Art, maintains a collection of paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints and photographs spanning over 700 years of art.[60] The university's Zoological Museum maintains a collection of approximately 500,000 zoological specimens, which can be used for research and instruction. A special collection contains skeletons, artifacts, and research papers associated with the Galápagos Islands. Since 1978, the UW-Madison Zoological Museum has been one of only three museums granted permission by the Ecuadoran Government to collect anatomical specimens from the Galápagos Islands.[61] AthleticsThe University of Wisconsin-Madison sports teams participate in the NCAA's Division I-A. With the exception of men's and women's hockey and rowing (Wisconsin Crew), University of Wisconsin-Madison athletic programs compete in the Big Ten Conference. Both hockey programs compete in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, while the traditionally highly ranked[62] men's and women's crew programs compete in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges. The school's fight song is On, Wisconsin!. The school's mascot is Buckingham U. Badger, commonly referred to as "Bucky Badger". 2005-06 marked the first time in school history that four Badger teams brought home national championships in the same academic year. In the fall, the men's cross country team won its fourth national championship, after finishing second the previous three years. The winter season was highlighted by the men's and women's ice hockey teams both winning national titles. The year was capped off in the spring with the women's lightweight crew taking its third straight Intercollegiate Rowing Association national crown. In 2008, both men's and women's crew teams claimed national titles.[63] FootballThe Badgers play college football at the 80,000-plus capacity Camp Randall Stadium. After every game, win or lose, the University of Wisconsin Marching Band plays popular songs during the Fifth Quarter. The 2005-06 season was the last for the Badgers' head coach Barry Alvarez, who became the school's full-time athletic director; Bret Bielema became head coach. The Badgers won three Rose Bowl Championships under Alvarez in 1994, 1999, and 2000. In the 2006 season, Bielema led the Badgers to an eleven-win regular season and to 12 overall wins, both firsts in school history.[64] The Badgers' final win of the season was against SEC runner-up Arkansas at the Capital One Bowl. Men's basketballAfter decades of mediocrity (notwithstanding a 1941 national championship), the men's basketball team has enjoyed success in recent years. They are now a perennial attendee of the NCAA Tournament, reaching the Final Four in 2000. Bo Ryan, a four-time division III national championship coach at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, has coached the team since 2001 after the retirement of Dick Bennett. The Badgers play at the Kohl Center, where the students are known as the Grateful Red. In the 2006?2007 basketball season, the Badgers attained their highest AP ranking (#1) (Feb. 19-25) in school history, garnering 35 first-place votes.[65] Women's basketballThe women's basketball team is led by Head Coach Lisa Stone and Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award winner Jolene Anderson. The Lady Badgers also play at the Kohl Center since their move from the Wisconsin Field House in 1998. The 2006?2007 season was a record-setting year as the Badgers recorded 23 wins, including 17 home wins, and were the WNIT Runner-Up Champions. Ice hockey
Men's hockey game played at the Kohl Center The school's strong ice hockey tradition gained another dimension with the addition of a women's team that began play in the 1999?2000 season. Coached by Mark Johnson, son of "Badger Bob" and member of the men's 1977 title team, the team won its first national championship on March 26, 2006. The women's team repeated as national champions in 2007 with a victory over the University of Minnesota-Duluth on March 18 at Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, NY. On April 8, 2006 the men's team, coached by Mike Eaves, Johnson's teammate on the '77 title team, won their sixth national championship. The six national championships rank 4th in NCAA ice hockey history.[66] The men's team had previously won NCAA titles in 1973, 1977, 1981, 1983 and 1990. The 2006 titles marked the first time that both the men's and women's Division I NCAA hockey titles were won by the same school in the same year.[67] During the 2005-06 season, the men's team also set an NCAA attendance record, averaging 13,511, surpassing their previous record set in 1998-99.[68] RivalriesThe Wisconsin Badgers football team competes in the Big Ten Conference. Their most notable rivalry is with the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers, which is the most-played rivalry in Division 1-A football.[69] In their annual college football game, they compete for Paul Bunyan's Axe. The two universities also compete in the Border Battle, a year-long athletic competition in which each team's win is worth a certain number of points for their university. The long standing football rivalry between the University of Iowa and Wisconsin was finally recognized in 2004. The winner of the annual game between the schools is awarded the Heartland Trophy. Wisconsin also has a major non-conference basketball rivalry with Marquette University, located in Milwaukee. That rivalry is also driven by the public-private divide between the two leading schools in the same state. In more recent years, an intense rivalry has developed between Wisconsin and Ohio State University. MascotThe mascot is an anthropomorphized badger named Bucky who dons a sweater affixed with the UW-Madison athletic logo (currently the red "Motion W"). Beginning in 1890, the university's first Bucky Badger was a live, temperamental and unruly badger who was quickly retired. Although the nickname of the Wisconsin teams remained the "Badgers," it was not until Art Evans drew the early caricature version of Bucky in 1940 that today's recognizable image of Bucky was adopted. In 1949, a contest was held to name the mascot, but no consensus was reached after only a few entries were received. In reaction, the contest committee chose the name Buckingham U. Badger, or "Bucky," for short. The team's nickname originates from the state nickname. In the 1820s, many lead miners and their families lived in the mines in which they worked until adequate above-ground shelters were built, and thus were compared to badgers.[70] Student lifeMediaStudent newspapersUW-Madison is the only American university to have two competing daily student newspapers: The Daily Cardinal, founded in 1892 and The Badger Herald, founded in 1969. In addition, students also produce the liberal Madison Observer, founded in 2003, and the conservative Mendota Beacon, founded in 2005. The Onion was founded in 1988 by two UW-Madison juniors, and was published in Madison before moving to New York City in 2001. Campus radioThe University of Wisconsin-Madison campus radio station is WSUM 91.7 FM.[71] Historically, UW-Madison has been home to a collection of student run radio stations, a number of which stopped broadcasting after run-ins with the FCC. The current radio station, WSUM, began in 1997 in a webcast only format because of the prolonged battle to get an FCC license and construct a tower. This lasted five years until February 22, 2002, when the station started broadcasting over FM airwaves at 91.7 from its tower in Montrose, Wisconsin. The radio station currently has around 150 volunteer DJ's and 8 paid managers. All UW-Madison students, as well as a limited number of community members, are eligible to participate in running the station. WSUM remains entirely free format, which means that the on-air personnel can showcase a large variety of music and talk programming at their discretion with few limitations. WSUM has garnered many awards from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association for their news and unique public service announcements.[72] Moped use
Mopeds parked in designated moped parking spaces. "Party school" imageWisconsin was named the number one "party school" in the May, 2006 issue of Playboy magazine.[76] Although rated one of the nation's top party schools in the 2005 Princeton Review annual survey, it dropped out of the top twenty in that category in the 2007 survey. It did retain first place in 2007 for beer consumption.[77] UW-Madison has long held a reputation for academics, political activism, and drinking; the last of these should be understood in the context of the state's traditionally high level of alcohol consumption in general.[78] The festive mentality is most notably displayed with the annual Mifflin Street Block Party and the State Street Halloween Party. The Mifflin Street Block Party, which began in the 1960s as a counterculture event, is today a spring semester finals week kickoff. Both events are commonly attended by tens of thousands of partiers, including many who come from out-of-state. Following a (non-political) riot that developed at the 1996 Mifflin Street Block Party, it was forcibly canceled by the city; since then, the city has permitted resumption of a Mifflin Street event. Notable peopleUW-Madison alumni[79]Living alumni: 376,577 International alumni 15,013 (4%) Alumni in Wisconsin: 139,631 (40%) Alumni populations of major U.S. cities:
17 Nobel Prizes and 24 Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded to UW-Madison alumni or faculty. See also
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