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University of Wisconsin–Madison

January 16, 2023

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The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded when Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848, UW–Madison is the official state university of Wisconsin and the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It was the first public university established in Wisconsin and remains the oldest and largest public university in the state. It became a land-grant institution in 1866.[7] The 933-acre (378 ha) main campus, located on the shores of Lake Mendota, includes four National Historic Landmarks.[8] The university also owns and operates the 1,200-acre (486 ha) University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, located 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the main campus, which is also a National Historic Landmark.[9][10]

University of Wisconsin–Madison
Latin: Universitas Wisconsinensis
Former names
University of Wisconsin (1848–1971)
MottoNumen Lumen (Latin)
Motto in English
"Divine light"
TypePublic land-grant research university
EstablishedJuly 26, 1848; 174 years ago (July 26, 1848)
Parent institution
University of Wisconsin System
AccreditationHLC
Academic affiliation
Endowment$4.0 billion (2021)[1]
ChancellorJennifer L. Mnookin
Academic staff
2,220[2]
Total staff
24,232[3]
Students49,886 (fall 2022)[4]
Undergraduates37,235 (fall 2022)[4]
Postgraduates12,651 (fall 2022)[4]
Location
Madison
,
Wisconsin
,
United States

43°04′30″N 89°25′02″W / 43.0750°N 89.4172°W / 43.0750; -89.4172Coordinates: 43°04′30″N 89°25′02″W / 43.0750°N 89.4172°W / 43.0750; -89.4172
CampusLarge City,[5] 936 acres (379 ha)
Newspaper
ColorsCardinal and white[6]
   
NicknameBadgers
Sporting affiliations
MascotBucky Badger
Websitewww.wisc.edu
An early illustration of the campus, from the 1885 edition of the Wisconsin Blue Book.

UW–Madison is organized into 20 schools and colleges, which enrolled 33,506 undergraduate, 9,772 graduate, 1,968 special, and 2,686 professional students in 2021. Its academic programs include 136 undergraduate majors, 148 master's degree programs, and 120 doctoral programs.[2][11] A major contributor to Wisconsin's economy, the university is the largest employer in the state,[12] with over 24,232 faculty and staff.[4]

Wisconsin is one of the twelve founding members of the Association of American Universities, a selective group of major research universities in North America.[13] It is considered a Public Ivy,[14] and is classified as an R1 University, meaning that it engages in a very high level of research activity.[15] In 2018, it had research and development expenditures of $1.2 billion, the eighth-highest among universities in the U.S.[16] As of March 2020, 26 Nobel laureates, 2 Fields medalists and 1 Turing award winner have been associated with UW–Madison as alumni, faculty, or researchers. Additionally, as of November 2018, the current CEOs of 14 Fortune 500 companies have attended UW–Madison, the most of any university in the United States.[17]

Among the scientific advances made at UW–Madison are the single-grain experiment, the discovery of vitamins A and B by Elmer McCollum and Marguerite Davis, the development of the anticoagulant medication warfarin by Karl Paul Link, the first chemical synthesis of a gene by Har Gobind Khorana, the discovery of the retroviral enzyme reverse transcriptase by Howard Temin, and the first synthesis of human embryonic stem cells by James Thomson. UW–Madison was also the home of both the prominent "Wisconsin School" of economics and of diplomatic history, while UW–Madison professor Aldo Leopold played an important role in the development of modern environmental science and conservationism.[18][19]

The Wisconsin Badgers compete in 25 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division I Big Ten Conference and have won 31 national championships. Wisconsin students and alumni have won 50 Olympic medals (including 13 gold medals).[20]

History

 
Bascom Hall fire that destroyed the dome in 1916[21]
 
Bascom hall at dusk

The university had its official beginnings when the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature in its 1838 session passed a law incorporating a "University of the Territory of Wisconsin", and a high-ranking Board of Visitors was appointed. However, this body (the predecessor of the U.W. board of regents) never actually accomplished anything before Wisconsin was incorporated as a state in 1848.[22] The Wisconsin Constitution provided for "the establishment of a state university, at or near the seat of state government..." and directed by the state legislature to be governed by a board of regents and administered by a Chancellor. On July 26, 1848, Nelson Dewey, Wisconsin's first governor, signed the act that formally created the University of Wisconsin.[23] John H. Lathrop became the university's first chancellor, in the fall of 1849.[24] With John W. Sterling as the university's first professor (mathematics), the first class of 17 students met at Madison Female Academy on February 5, 1849. A permanent campus site was soon selected: an area of 50 acres (20.2 ha) "bounded north by Fourth lake, east by a street to be opened at right angles with King street", [later State Street] "south by Mineral Point Road (University Avenue), and west by a carriage-way from said road to the lake." The regents' building plans called for a "main edifice fronting towards the Capitol, three stories high, surmounted by an observatory for astronomical observations."[25] This building, University Hall, now known as Bascom Hall, was finally completed in 1859. On October 10, 1916, a fire destroyed the building's dome, which was never replaced. North Hall, constructed in 1851, was actually the first building on campus. In 1854, Levi Booth and Charles T. Wakeley became the first graduates of the university, and in 1892 the university awarded its first PhD to future university president Charles R. Van Hise.[26]

The Wisconsin Idea

Research, teaching, and service at the UW is influenced by a tradition known as "the Wisconsin Idea", first articulated by UW–Madison President Charles Van Hise in 1904, when he declared "I shall never be content until the beneficent influence of the University reaches every home in the state."[27] The Wisconsin Idea holds that the boundaries of the university should be the boundaries of the state, and that the research conducted at UW–Madison should be applied to solve problems and improve health, quality of life, the environment, and agriculture for all citizens of the state. The Wisconsin Idea permeates the university's work and helps forge close working relationships among university faculty and students, and the state's industries and government.[28] Based in Wisconsin's populist history, the Wisconsin Idea continues to inspire the work of the faculty, staff, and students who aim to solve real-world problems by working together across disciplines and demographics.[29]

World War II

During World War II, University of Wisconsin was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.[30]

Expansion

Main article: University of Wisconsin System

Over 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.[31] 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

See also: Sterling Hall bombing
 
Bascom Hill, 1968, with crosses placed by students protesting the Vietnam War, and sign reading, "Bascom Memorial Cemetery, Class of 1968"

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, UW–Madison was shaken by a series of student protests, and by the use of force by authorities in response, comprehensively documented in the film The War at Home. The first major demonstrations protested the presence on campus of recruiters for the Dow Chemical Company, which supplied the napalm used in the Vietnam War. Authorities used force to quell the disturbance. The struggle was documented in the book, They Marched into Sunlight,[32] as well as the PBS documentary Two Days in October.[33] Among the students injured in the protest was former Madison mayor Paul Soglin.

Another target of protest was the Army Mathematics Research Center (AMRC) in Sterling Hall, which was also home of the physics department. The student newspaper, The Daily Cardinal, published a series of investigative articles stating 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!"

On August 24, 1970, near 3:40 am, a bomb exploded next to Sterling Hall, aimed at destroying the Army Math Research Center.[34] 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 severely damaged, while the intended target, the AMRC, was scarcely affected. 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.[35]

Timeline of notable events

Notable moments in the history of the University of Wisconsin–Madison include:

Admissions

Undergraduate

Admissions statistics
2021 entering
class[45]Change vs.
2016
Admit rate60.3
(  +7.7)
Yield rate26.1
(  −11.1)
Test scores middle 50%
SAT Total1350-1480
(among 15% of FTFs)
ACT Composite28-32
(among 46% of FTFs)

The 2022 annual ranking of U.S. News & World Report categorizes UW-Madison as "more selective".[46] For the Class of 2025 (enrolled fall 2021), UW-Madison received 53,829 applications and accepted 32,466 (60.3%). Of those accepted, 8,465 enrolled, a yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) of 26.1%. UW-Madison's freshman retention rate is 95.2%, with 89% going on to graduate within six years.[45]

The university started test-optional admissions with the Fall 2021 incoming class in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and has extended this through Fall 2024. Of the 46% of enrolled freshmen in 2021 who submitted ACT scores; the middle 50 percent Composite score was between 28 and 32.[45] Of the 15% of the incoming freshman class who submitted SAT scores; the middle 50 percent Composite scores were 1350-1480.[45]

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a college-sponsor of the National Merit Scholarship Program and sponsored 10 Merit Scholarship awards in 2020. In the 2020–2021 academic year, 30 freshman students were National Merit Scholars.[47]

Fall First-Time Freshman Statistics [45][48][49][50][51][52]
2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016
Applicants 53,829 45,941 43,921 42,741 35,615 32,887
Admits 32,466 26,289 23,287 22,099 19,150 17,304
Admit rate 60.3 57.2 53.0 51.7 53.8 52.6
Enrolled 8,465 7,306 7,550 6,862 6,610 6,430
Yield rate 26.1 27.8 32.4 31.1 34.5 37.2
ACT composite*
(out of 36) 		28-32
(46%†)		 27-32
(78%†)		 27-32
(79%†)		 27-32
(84%†)		 27-31
(89%†)		 27-31
(87%†)
SAT composite*
(out of 1600) 		1350-1480
(15%†)		 1300-1440
(27%†)		 1330-1450
(28%†)		 1300-1480
(23%†)		 1280-1450
(15%†)		 —
* middle 50% range
† percentage of first-time freshmen who chose to submit

Academics

 
"Sifting and winnowing" plaque on Bascom Hall, UW–Madison tribute to academic freedom

The University of Wisconsin–Madison, the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System, is a large, four-year research university comprising twenty associated colleges and schools.[15] In addition to undergraduate and graduate divisions in agriculture and life sciences, business, education, engineering, human ecology, journalism and mass communication, letters and science, music, nursing, pharmacy, and social welfare, the university also maintains graduate and professional schools in environmental studies, law, library and information studies, medicine and public health (School of Medicine and Public Health), public affairs, and veterinary medicine.

The four year, full-time undergraduate instructional program is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as "arts and science plus professions" with a high graduate coexistence.[15] The largest university college, the College of Letters and Science, enrolls approximately half of the undergraduate student body and is made up of 38 departments and five professional schools[53] that instruct students and carry out research in a wide variety of fields, such as astronomy, economics, geography, history, linguistics, and zoology. The graduate instructional program is classified by Carnegie as "comprehensive with medical/veterinary." In 2008, it granted the third largest number of doctorates in the nation.[15][54]

Rankings

International

In the 2021 QS World University Rankings, UW-Madison was ranked 65th in the world.[64] The 2021 Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed UW-Madison 58th worldwide, based primarily on surveys administered to students, faculty, and recruiters.[65] For 2021, UW-Madison was ranked tied for 41st by U.S. News & World Report among global universities.[66] UW-Madison was ranked 31st among world universities in 2021 by the Academic Ranking of World Universities, which assesses academic and research performance.[67]

National

UW-Madison's undergraduate program was ranked tied for 38th among national universities by U.S. News & World Report for 2022 and tied for 10th among public colleges and universities.[68] The same publication ranked UW's graduate Wisconsin School of Business tied for 42nd.[68] Other graduate schools ranked by USNWR for 2022 include the School of Medicine and Public Health, which was 33rd in research and 12th in primary care, the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education tied for fourth, the University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering tied for 26th, the University of Wisconsin Law School tied for 29th, and the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs tied for 25th.[68]

The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings 2021 ranked UW-Madison 65th among 801 U.S. colleges and universities based upon 15 individual performance indicators.[69] UW-Madison was ranked fourth in the nation by the Washington Monthly 2021 National University Rankings.[70]

In 2022, Money.com positioned the University of Wisconsin-Madison 17th out of 600 four-year colleges universities in their Best Colleges in America list.[71]

Research

 
A view of UW Health University Hospital, the Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC), and the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research rising above Lake Mendota, on the western edge of the UW–Madison campus. The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, housed in the HSLC, accounts for 40% of UW–Madison's research grants.[72]

UW–Madison was a founding member of the Association of American Universities.[73] In fiscal year 2018 the school received $1.206 billion in research and development (R&D) funding, placing it eighth in the U.S. among institutions of higher education.[16] Its research programs were fourth in the number of patents issued in 2010.[74]

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is one of 33 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.

The university maintains almost 100 research centers and programs, ranging from agriculture to arts, from education to engineering.[75] 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.[76]

Its center for research on internal combustion engines, called the Engine Research Center, has a five-year collaboration agreement with General Motors.[77] It has also been the recipient of multimillion-dollar funding from the federal government.[78]

In June 2013, it is reported that the United States National Institutes of Health would fund an $18.13 million study at the University of Wisconsin. The study will research lethal qualities of viruses such as Ebola, West Nile and influenza. The goal of the study is to help find new drugs to fight off the most lethal pathogens.[79]

In 2012, UW-Madison experiments on cats came under fire from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals who claimed the animals were abused. In 2013, the NIH briefly suspended the research's funding pending an agency investigation. The following year the university was fined more than $35,000 for several violations of the Animal Welfare Act. Bill Maher, James Cromwell and others spoke out against the experiments that ended in 2014. The university defended the research and the care the animals received claiming that PETA's objections were merely a "stunt" by the organization.[80][81][82]

Big Ten Academic Alliance

The University of Wisconsin is a participant in the Big Ten Academic Alliance. The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) is the academic consortium of the universities in the Big Ten Conference. Students at participating schools are allowed "in-house" borrowing privileges at other schools' libraries.[83] The BTAA uses collective purchasing and licensing, and has saved member institutions $19 million to date.[84] Course sharing,[85] professional development programs,[86] study abroad and international collaborations,[87] and other initiatives are also part of the BTAA.

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences

The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences fulfills the UW–Madison's mission as a land-grant university, which dates back to 1862, when Congress passed legislation to establish a national network of colleges devoted to agriculture and mechanics and Wisconsin received 240,000 acres of allotted federal land.[88] In 1885 the university began offering a winter course for farmers, the Agriculture Short Course, which was greatly developed and enhanced by Ransom Asa Moore from 1895 until 1907 and continues today as the Farm and Industry Short Course. In 1889 the university put all of their agricultural offerings under a new College of Agriculture, with W.A. Henry as dean.[88] Professors listed in the 1896 Agricultural Short Course for the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison listed popular professors such the Dean of the College of Agriculture, W.A. Henry (Feeds and Feeding), S.M. Babcock (Agricultural Chemistry; Farm Dairying), F.H. King (Agricultural Physics, Agricultural Mechanics, and Meteorology), E.S. Goff (Plant Life, Horticulture, and Economic Entomology), H.L. Russell (Bacteriology), J.A. Craig (Breeds: Breeding and Judging Live Stock), Wm. A. Scott (Economics of Agriculture), C.I. King (Practical Mechanics), Mr. R.A. Moore (Parliamentary Procedures and Book-keeping), A.B. Sayles (Farm Dairying), Fred. Cranefield (Assistant in Green House Instruction), and the previous instructor in Veterinary Science, W.G. Clark, V.S.

The building that housed the College of Agriculture was originally created in 1889 and was centered in South Hall on Bascom Hill until the fall of 1903 when the first classes were held in the brand new College of Agriculture and Life Sciences building, where it has since remained.[89] "The college has evolved and grown over the decades to reflect changes in the fabric of society and in the areas of knowledge that it studies. Practical studies related to crop and livestock production and farm life gradually delved deeper as scientists strove to understand the underlying biological processes. Today the college generates new knowledge about agriculture, natural resources management and protection, human health and nutrition, community development and related topics. Faculty and staff in 19 academic departments and a number of interdisciplinary programs carry out these lines of study."[88]

It has 12 associated research centers including the Marshfield Agricultural Research Station and research centers in Arlington among other locations in Wisconsin.[90]

Letters & Science Honors Program

The L&S Honors Program serves over 1300 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; research opportunities and funding; 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.

WISCIENCE

The Wisconsin Institute for Science Education and Community Engagement (WISCIENCE) is a unit that facilitates coordination of science outreach efforts across the university and works to improve science education at all levels.[91]

Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing

The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing is a post-graduate program for emerging writers offered by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Each year, it awards "internationally-competitive" nine-month fellowships to writers of fiction and poetry who have yet to publish a second book.[92] Notable past Fellows include Anthony Doerr, Ann Packer and Quan Barry.[93]

The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing offers two fellowships in fiction and three fellowships in poetry. These include the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellowship, the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellowship, the Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship, the Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellowship, and the First Wave Poetry Fellowship. Additionally, it offers the Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship to a second-year candidate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison's MFA program in creative writing, in order to fund a third year of study. Fellows receive a cash prize of a minimum of $38,000 as well as health insurance. Fellows are required to live in the Madison, Wisconsin area for the duration of their fellowships, teach one creative writing workshop each semester, assist in judging the English department's writing contests and fellowships, and give a public reading.[92][94]

The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing was founded in 1985 by the poet Ronald Wallace, who taught at the University of Wisconsin's English department from 1972 to 2015.[95] WICW was created "to provide time, space, and an intellectual community for writers working on a first book of poetry or fiction." In 2012, the Institute expanded its fellowship eligibility requirements to include writers who have published only one book-length work of creative writing.[92] From 2008 to 2014, it offered the Carl Djerassi Distinguished Playwriting Fellowship in addition to fiction and poetry fellowships.[93]

Fellowship applications are judged anonymously until finalists are chosen. However, "it is the work and the work alone that really matters," says Jesse Lee Kercheval, in a conversation with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.[96]

List of current and former Fellows[93]
Year Fellows
1986–1987
1987–1988
  • Mari Hatta
  • Marly Swick
1988–1989
1989–1990
  • Heather Aronson
  • Adele Ne Jame
1990–1991
1991–1992
1992–1993
1993–1994
1994–1995
1995–1996
1996–1997
1997–1998
  • Allyson Goldin Loomis
  • Sarah Messer
  • Brad Owens
  • Jennifer Tonge
1998–1999
  • Benn Ann Fennelly
  • John McNally
  • Judith Claire Mitchell
  • Stephen Schottenfeld
  • Katharine Whitcomb
1999–2000
2000–2001
2001–2002
2002–2003
  • Ashley Capps
  • Miriam Gershow
  • Tamara Avila Guirado
  • Lydia Melvin
  • Srikanth Reddy
  • David Zimmerman
2003–2004
  • Josh Bell
  • Matt Frieidson
  • Frances Hwang
  • Nathan S. Jones
  • Jacinda Townsend
  • Sharmila Voorakkara
2004–2005
  • Eric Burger
  • Justin Haynes
  • John Lee
  • Ellen Litman
  • Kirk Lee Davis
  • Cynthia Marie Hoffman
2005–2006
  • Colleen Abel
  • Gabrielle Daniels
  • Rebecca Dunham
  • Brandi Reissenweber
  • Adam Stumacher
  • Kate Umans
2006–2007
2007–2008
2008–2009
2009–2010
  • Lauren Berry
  • Nate Brown
  • Jason England
  • Len Jenkin
  • Chris Mohar
  • John Murillo
  • Michael Sheehan
2010–2011
  • Laurel Bastian
  • Sean Bishop
  • Lydia Fitzpatrick
  • Sarah Gubbins
  • Rebecca Hazelton
  • Andrew Mortazavi
  • Sterling Schildt
2011–2012
2012–2013
2013–2014
  • Jesse Damiani
  • Patricia Grace King
  • Jennifer Luebbers
  • Bonnie Metzgar
  • Matthew Modica
  • D. J. Thielke
  • Timothy Daniel Welch
2014–2015
  • Brian Booker
  • Ben Hoffman
  • Lauren Russell
  • Walter B. Thompson
  • Meg Wade
2015–2016
2016–2017
  • Derrick Austin
  • Jamel Brinkley
  • Natalie Eilbert
  • Sarah Fuchs
  • Marcela Fuentes
  • Barrett Swanson
2017–2018
2018–2019
  • Aria Aber
  • Chekwube O. Danladi
  • Natasha Oladokun
  • Emily Shetler
  • Lucy Tan
  • Mary Terrier
  • Kate Wisel
2019–2020
  • Claire Agnes
  • R. Cassandra Bruner
  • Sean Hammer
  • Clemonce Heard
  • Wes Holtermann
  • Gabriel Louis
  • Natasha Oladokun
  • Xandria Phillips
2020–2021
  • Emma Binder
  • Jari Bradley
  • Sasha Debevec-McKenney
  • Victoria C. Flanagan
  • Sandra Hong
  • Taylor Koekkoek

Campus

 
Overhead view of central campus in the 1920s

Located in Madison, about a mile from the state capitol, the main campus of the university is situated partially on the isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona. The main campus comprises 933 acres (378 ha) of land, while the entire campus, including research stations throughout the state, is over 10,600 acres (4,290 ha) in area. The central campus is on an urban layout mostly coinciding with the city of Madison's street grid, exceptions being the suburban University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, and the Department of Psychiatry & Clinics in the West Side research park. The University of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, a demonstration area for native ecosystems, is located on the west side of Madison. The main campus includes many buildings designed or supervised by architects J.T.W. Jennings and Arthur Peabody. The hub of campus life is the Memorial Union. UW–Madison's campus has been ranked as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States by Travel + Leisure and Condé Nast Traveler.[97][98] One unusual feature of the campus is the Babcock Hall dairy plant and store, a fully functional dairy well known for its ice cream.[99][100]

Bascom Hall

 
Bascom Hall atop Bascom Hill at the heart of the campus

As one of the icons on campus, Bascom Hall,[101] 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 in 1916. The structure has been added to several times over the years. The building currently houses the office of the 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.[102]

Music Hall

 
Music Hall
 
A photo of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences building on UW's campus.

This 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.[103] 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.

George L. Mosse Humanities Building

The George L. Mosse Humanities Building, located on Library Mall, was built in the late 1960s in the Brutalist style. Although debunked, the campus myth is that the building (with its poor ventilation, narrow windows, inclined base, and cantilevered upper floors) was designed to be "riot-proof".[104][105] 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,[106] in part because of water damage.[107][108]

Van Hise Hall

 
Van Hise Hall seen from Linden Drive

Van Hise Hall is home to most of the languages departments of the university[109] and the upper floors house the offices of the University of Wisconsin System's president and its Board of Regents. At 241 feet and 19 stories, Van Hise is the second-tallest building in Madison and one of the tallest educational buildings in the world.[110] Because of its placement atop Bascom Hill it towers over the State Capitol as the building with the highest elevation in the city. Van Hise Hall was constructed in 1967 and its destruction is slated for sometime around 2025 as part of the university's campus master plan.[111]

Grainger Hall

 
Grainger Business Hall and Conference center

Home of the Wisconsin School of Business, Grainger Hall was built in 1993. In 2008, it underwent a major renovation and addition to assist the 12 MBA specialization programs that were housed there.[112] The addition occupies the corner of Park Street and University Avenue, projecting the school's crest outward in a location that once housed a bank.[113] Grainger Hall occupies an entire city block.

Grainger Hall also houses an array of student-run organizations, both undergraduate and graduate. There are major-specific organizations as well as organizations that welcome all students. Several of the clubs are Madison chapters of nationwide organizations, others are honor societies that require a minimum grade point average, while some exist simply to network with other students.

The Wisconsin Union

 
The Memorial Union as seen from the Library Mall on the UW–Madison campus

The University of Wisconsin–Madison has two student unions. The older, Memorial Union, was built in 1928 to honor American World War I veterans. Also known as the Union or the Terrace, it has gained a reputation as one of the most beautiful student centers on a university campus. Located on the shore of Lake Mendota, it is a popular spot for socializing among both students and the public, who enjoy gazing at the lake and its sailboats. The union is known for the Rathskeller, a German pub adjacent to the lake terrace. Political debates and backgammon and sheepshead games over a beer on the terrace are common among students. The Rathskeller serves "Rathskeller Ale", a beer brewed expressly for the Terrace. Memorial Union was the first union at a public university to serve beer.[114]

 
Hoofer Badger Sloops on Lake Mendota behind Memorial Union

Memorial Union is home to many arts venues, including several art galleries, a movie theater, the Wisconsin Union Theater, and a craft shop that provides courses and facilities for arts and crafts activities. 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 in 2006, and the university is currently undergoing the expansion.[115]

Union South, the newer campus union, was built in 1971 to better accommodate a growing student enrollment and was demolished in 2008. A new "green" Union South, located on the site of the old union, opened April 15, 2011. It is a certified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) gold building.[116] The building contains several dining options, an art gallery, a climbing wall, a bowling alley, event spaces, and a hotel.[117][118]

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. One of the most well-known members of WUD is the Wisconsin Hoofers, a club that organizes outdoor recreational activities.[119]

Dejope Hall

 
Dejope Residence Hall

On May 22, 2012, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin passed a resolution permitting the usage of the name "Dejope," a variation of the original Ho-chunk term, for a new residence hall at the university. Teejop means "Four Lakes" in the Ho-Chunk language, and Native Americans have used this word to describe the Madison area for thousands of years.[120] The residence hall was planned as a symbol of the ongoing cooperative relationship between University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Ho-Chunk nation and the building and its grounds contain imagery of the mounds and lakes in the area. A fire circle in front of the building contains plaques representing all 11 Native American nations in Wisconsin. Images of the four effigy mounds that are located on the campus (Observatory Hill, Willow Drive, Picnic Point and Eagle Heights) are embedded into the flooring of the building's main floor. An acrylic depiction of Lake Mendota is located in the conference room, and another artwork of glass and metal depicting the Four Lakes is located in the East Hall. Dejope Hall is the eighth largest residence hall on the UW-Madison campus.

DeLuca Biochemistry Building

The Hector F. DeLuca Biochemistry Building, part of the Hector F. DeLuca Complex, was built in 1912 and was extensively remodeled in 2012. The building is home to floor-to-ceiling murals painted by John Steuart Curry. Home to the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, the building also includes Department of Biochemistry facilities.

Chadbourne Residence Hall

Chadbourne Residence Hall was constructed in 1959, with major renovations ranging from 2007 to 2010. Chadbourne Residence Hall also houses the Chadbourne Residential College, a building-wide living-learning community.[121] Chadbourne Residence Hall is connected to Rheta’s Market, a buffet-style dining hall.[122]

Libraries

 
A view of the Wisconsin State Capitol from atop Bascom Hill. The Mosse Humanities building is on the right, Wisconsin Historical Society (fore) and Memorial Library (rear) on the left.

The University of Wisconsin–Madison has the 12th largest research library collection in North America.[123] More than 40 professional and special-purpose libraries serve the campus.[124] The campus library collections include more than 8.3 million volumes representing human inquiry through all of history.[123] In addition, the collections comprised more than 101,000 serial titles, 6.4 million microform items, and over 8.2 million items in other formats, such as government documents, maps, musical scores, and audiovisual materials.[123] Over 1 million volumes are circulated to library users every year.[125] Memorial Library serves as the principal research facility on campus for the humanities and social sciences. It is the largest library in the state, with over 3.5 million volumes.[126] It also houses a periodical collection, domestic and foreign newspapers, Special Collections,[127] the Mills Music Library,[128] a letterpress printing museum,[129] and the UW Digital Collections Center.[130]

Steenbock Memorial Library is the primary library for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, School of Human Ecology, School of Veterinary Medicine, UW-Extension and Cooperative Extension, and Zoology and Botany Departments. The University of Wisconsin–Madison Archives and Records Management Department and Oral History Program are also located in Steenbock Library. The library is named for UW professor Harry Steenbock (1886–1967), who developed an inexpensive method of enriching foods with Vitamin D in the 1920s. This library is open to the public.

Undergraduates can find many of the resources they need at College Library in Helen C. White Hall.[131] Special collections there include Ethnic Studies, Career, Women's, and Gaus (Poetry). The Open Book collection, created to support the extra-academic interests of undergraduates, contains DVDs, audio books, and video games, and paperback books.[132] The library also has a coffee shop, the Open Book Café.[133] College Library houses a media center with over 200 computer workstations, DV editing stations, scanners, poster printing, and equipment checkout (including laptops, digital cameras, projectors, and more).

The Kurt F. Wendt Library[134] serves the College of Engineering[135] and the Departments of Computer Sciences,[136] Statistics,[137] and Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences.[138] 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, and provides reference tools and assistance for both the general public and the UW–Madison community.

Ebling Library for the Health Sciences is located in the Health Sciences Learning Center. It opened in 2004 after the Middleton Library, Weston Library, and Power Pharmaceutical Library merged collections and staff.[139]

The LGBT Student Center, located in the Red Gym, functions as a library for queer-themed fiction and non-fiction and provides training and resources for the entire campus.[140][141]

The Kohler Art Library is located in the Conrad A. Elvehjem Building across from the Chazen Museum of Art and serves as the main campus resource for art and architecture. The library supports the Departments of Art and Art History as well as the Chazen Museum. Its collections number over 185,000 volumes covering global art movements of all periods.[142] A feature of the library is the Artists' Book Collection, which contains over 1,000 artists' books from 175 presses and artists.[142] The collection, created as a teaching resource in 1970 by founding Kohler Art Library Director William C. Bunce, was digitized in 2007 by the UW Digital Collections Center.[143] The Kohler Art Library is open to the public.

The online catalog for UW–Madison Libraries is MadCat.[144] It includes bibliographic records for books, periodicals, audiovisual materials, maps, music scores, microforms, and computer databases owned by over 40 campus libraries, as well as records for items that are on order. The UW–Madison Libraries website provides access to resources licensed for use by those affiliated with UW–Madison, in addition to those openly available on the World Wide Web.

Museums

 
Wisconsin Historical Society

The 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.[145]

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.[146]

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.[147]

The L. R. Ingersoll Physics Museum contains a range of exhibits demonstrating classical and modern physics. Many of the exhibits allow for hands-on interaction by visitors. The museum also has a number of historical instruments and pictures on display.[148]

Effigy mounds

 
Willow Drive Effigy Mounds

UW–Madison claims more distinct archaeological sites than on any other university campus.[149] The campus contains four clusters of effigy mounds located at Observatory Hill, Willow Drive, Picnic Point, and Eagle Heights. These sites, reflecting thousands of years of human habitation in the area, have survived to a greater or lesser degree on campus, depending on location and past building activities. Surviving sites are marked and fenced on the campus, ensuring that they are not disturbed. Wisconsin statutes protect effigy mounds by giving them a five-foot buffer zone.[150][151] The Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee is endeavoring to "…safeguard beloved cultural landscapes," through aggressive enforcement of measures for the preservation of such zones and advocating for broader buffers where possible.[152]

Athletics

Main article: Wisconsin Badgers

The University of Wisconsin–Madison sports teams participate in the NCAA's Division I-A. With the exception of lightweight Wisconsin Badgers Crew, the university's athletic programs compete in the Big Ten Conference. The women's hockey program competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA), while the men's and women's crew programs compete in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges and Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges, respectively. The school's fight song is On, Wisconsin!. The school's mascot is Buckingham U. Badger, commonly referred to as "Bucky Badger". The athletic director is Chris McIntosh.

2005–2006 marked the first time in school history that four Badger teams won national championships in the same academic year.[153] In the fall, the men's cross country team won its fourth national championship. 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.[154]

Football

Main article: Wisconsin Badgers football

The Badgers play college football at Camp Randall Stadium. The head coach is Luke Fickell. Before the fourth quarter of every game at Camp Randall, the crowd jumps around to House of Pain's song "Jump Around". After every game, the University of Wisconsin Marching Band plays popular songs during the Fifth Quarter.[155][156][157] The Badgers won three Rose Bowl Championships under Barry Alvarez in 1994, 1999, and 2000. In 2006, Bret Bielema led the Badgers to a school record (at that time) 11-win regular season and to 12 overall wins, defeating Arkansas in the Capital One Bowl. Coach Paul Chryst would later break that record as he led the Badgers to 12 regular season wins in the 2017-2018 campaign, as well as a 34–24 victory over Miami in the Orange Bowl, for a season total of 13 wins. Chryst also won a Cotton Bowl the year before the Orange Bowl win.[158] The Badgers lost to TCU in the 2011 Rose Bowl Championship on January 1, 2011. In the 2011 season, the Badgers defended the B1G championship title to go to the 2012 Rose Bowl Championship. The Badgers lost to Oregon 45–38 in the highest-scoring Rose Bowl of all time.[159] The Badgers made it to the 2013 Rose Bowl for their third consecutive Rose Bowl appearance. Bret Bielema took the Arkansas football head coaching position before the game and Barry Alvarez took over as a one-game interim coach.[160] The Badgers lost to Stanford 14-20 for Barry Alvarez's first Rose Bowl loss, he had previously won it three times.[161]

Men's basketball

 
Men's basketball game as seen from the student section at the Kohl Center
Main article: Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball

The Badgers have made 19 consecutive appearances (1999–2017) in the NCAA Tournament, having played in the National Championship game in 2015, making Final Four visits in 2000 and 2014, an Elite Eight appearance in 2005, and Sweet Sixteen appearances in 2003, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2016, and 2017.[162] Bo Ryan was the head coach from 2001 to 2015. Greg Gard is the current head coach. The Badgers play at the Kohl Center, where the student fans are known as AreaRED. In the 2006–2007 season, the Badgers attained their highest AP ranking in school history (#1 Feb. 19–25), garnering 35 first-place votes.[163] The Badgers earned their only NCAA National Championship in 1941.

Women's basketball

Main article: Wisconsin Badgers women's basketball

Women's ice hockey

Main article: Wisconsin Badgers women's ice hockey

Ice hockey

Main article: Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey
 
Men's hockey game played at the Kohl Center

Badger ice hockey first became a men's varsity sport in 1922. Although dropped after the 1934–35 season, it again became a varsity sport in the 1963–64 season. The men's team played in the Dane County Coliseum until moving to the Kohl Center (capacity 15,359) in the fall of 1998. The first ice hockey game played at the Kohl was the Hall of Fame game against the University of Notre Dame. From 1999 to 2012 the men's team led the nation in college hockey attendance, setting an NCAA attendance record (averaging 15,048) during the 2009–10 season, which surpassed their previous record set in 2006–07.[164]

Bob Johnson, nicknamed "Badger Bob" by fans, took over the reins in 1966. Johnson coached the Badger men to three national championships in 1973, 1977 and 1981. Jeff Sauer coached the Badger men to two more titles in 1983 and 1990. Mike Eaves, member of the 1977 NCAA title team, coached the Badger men's team to its sixth national championship in 2006. The six Badger titles rank fourth in NCAA men's ice hockey history.[165] Eaves' 2010 squad advanced to the national championship game during the Badgers' 11th appearance in the men's Frozen Four before bowing to Boston College.

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 another member of the men's 1977 title team, the Badger women won their first NCAA championship on March 26, 2006. The dual 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.[166] The women's team repeated as national champions in 2007 with a victory over the University of Minnesota-Duluth and in 2009 with a victory over Mercyhurst. The team set the NCAA women's hockey attendance record on February 15, 2014, in a game against Minnesota.[167]

Rivalries

 
Badgers celebrate their win by carrying Paul Bunyan's Axe around TCF Bank Stadium after the 2009 game.

The Wisconsin Badgers' most notable rivalry within the Big Ten is with the University of Minnesota, which is the most-played rivalry in Division I-A football.[168][169][170] In their annual college football game, the teams 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 wins earn points for their university.

Men's basketball rivalries include Michigan State, Illinois and non-conference, in-state Marquette.

The Wisconsin–Madison men's and women's hockey teams' most recognized rivals are the Golden Gophers of the University of Minnesota and the Fighting Hawks of the University of North Dakota. Other rivals include the University of Denver, Colorado College, Michigan Tech, University of Minnesota Duluth, and St. Cloud State.

Mascot

Main article: Bucky Badger

The school 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.

At Wisconsin football games in the 1920s live mascots were used to inspire fans. The animals used included a black bear, a bonnet monkey, and live badgers. 1949 was the first year a student sporting a papier-mâché badger head appeared; this subsequently replaced the use of live badgers.[171]

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.[172][173]

In 2009, Fulton Market Films produced the documentary Being Bucky which followed the lives of seven Wisconsin students who take on the role of Bucky Badger.[174] Being Bucky won "Best Documentary Film" at the Wisconsin Film Festival and went on to play in local Wisconsin movie theaters.[175]

Student life

Student body composition as of May 2, 2022
Race and ethnicity[176] Total
White 68% 68
 
Foreign national 9% 9
 
Asian 8% 8
 
Other[a] 7% 7
 
Hispanic 6% 6
 
Black 2% 2
 
Economic diversity
Low-income[b] 14% 14
 
Affluent[c] 86% 86
 

Over 800 student organizations or clubs register with the Center for Leadership and Involvement (CFLI) at UW–Madison each year.[177]

Media

Student publications

UW–Madison is the only university in the country with two daily student newspapers:[178][179][180][181] The Daily Cardinal, founded in 1892 and The Badger Herald, founded in 1969. The Onion was founded in 1988 by two UW–Madison juniors, and was published in Madison before moving to New York City in 2001. It is also the home of The Madison Misnomer, an undergraduate comedy newspaper, founded in 2007.

UW–Madison is also home to one of only two nationally distributed undergraduate international studies journals in the country. The Journal of Undergraduate International Studies (JUIS) is a competitive publication that features peer-reviewed academic articles. It was founded in 2003 by David Coddon with the support of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Leadership Trust.

Campus radio

The University of Wisconsin–Madison campus radio station is WSUM 91.7 FM, "The Snake on the Lake".[182] 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 United States Federal Communications Commission (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 200 volunteer DJs and eight 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, play-by-play broadcasts of Badger athletic events, and unique public service announcements.[183]

Organizations

 
Wisconsin Lutheran Chapel

Student organizations at the school include chapters of the fraternities Acacia,[184] Alpha Chi Omega,[185] Alpha Delta Phi,[186] Alpha Gamma Rho[187] Delta Chi[188] and Sigma Alpha.[189] Alpha Chi Sigma was founded at the university in 1902.

Religious student organizations include affiliates of the Christian organizations Athletes in Action,[190] Chi Alpha Campus Ministries[191] and the Christian Legal Society.[192] Pres House[193] is a progressive student organization loosely associated with the PCUSA that welcomes students of all backgrounds to its worship and various other gatherings. Wisconsin Lutheran Chapel is a Christian chapel and campus ministry that serves students of UW–Madison.[194]

UW is also home to student vehicles teams such as Formula SAE combustion and electric, Baja SAE, SAE Clean Snow, ASME Human Powered Vehicle, Wisconsin Autonomous, Concrete Canoe and formerly the UW Hybrid Vehicle Team and Badgerloop.[195]

There are 8 A cappella groups on the UW-Madison campus. Of them, two are mixed-voice, two are lower voice, two are upper voice, and two are themed mixed-voice. The groups are the MadHatters, Redefined A Cappella, Fundamentally Sound, Pitches and Notes, Tangled up in Blue, Under A-Rest, Jewop, and Wisconsin Waale.

MTV's College Life

On April 13, 2009, MTV premiered the reality series College Life about the day-to-day lives of eight UW–Madison freshmen.[196] The show was created by UW–Madison alumnus David Wexler.[197] According to MTV,[198] the students did the filming for the series, but not the editing. During production, the university pulled its support of the show. Subsequently, a disclaimer was aired at the beginning of each episode stating that UW–Madison does not endorse the program. Eight episodes had aired as of 22 February 2010. Signal and location blockers have been added for student safety. as of 13 January 2020

Notable alumni and people

For a more comprehensive list, see List of University of Wisconsin–Madison people.

As of October 2018, 26 Nobel laureates and 2 Fields medalists have been associated with UW–Madison as alumni, faculty, or researchers. Additionally, as of November 2018, the current CEOs of 14 Fortune 500 companies have attended UW–Madison, the most of any university in the United States.[199] Notable CEOs who have attended UW-Madison include Thomas J. Falk (Kimberly-Clark), Carol Bartz (Yahoo!), David J. Lesar (Halliburton), Keith Nosbusch (Rockwell Automation), Lee Raymond (Exxon Mobil), Tom Kingsbury (Burlington Stores), and Judith Faulkner (Epic Systems).

As of 2017, UW–Madison had more than 427,000 living alumni. Although a large number of alumni live in Wisconsin, a significant number live in Illinois, Minnesota, New York, California, and Washington, D.C.[200]

UW–Madison alumni, faculty, or former faculty have been awarded 26[201] Nobel Prizes and 38 Pulitzer Prizes.[200]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.
  2. ^ The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.
  3. ^ The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.

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Further reading

  • Butterfield, C. W.. History of the University of Wisconsin. Madison: University Press, 1879.
  • Fred, Edwin Broun. A University Remembers. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1969.
  • Greene, Howard; Matthew Greene (2001). The Public Ivies: America's Flagship Public Universities. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-093459-X.
  • Thwaites, Reuben Gold. History of the University of Wisconsin. 1900.

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University of Wisconsin redirects here For the state university system see University of Wisconsin System For other uses see University of Wisconsin disambiguation The University of Wisconsin Madison University of Wisconsin Wisconsin UW UW Madison or simply Madison is a public land grant research university in Madison Wisconsin Founded when Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848 UW Madison is the official state university of Wisconsin and the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System It was the first public university established in Wisconsin and remains the oldest and largest public university in the state It became a land grant institution in 1866 7 The 933 acre 378 ha main campus located on the shores of Lake Mendota includes four National Historic Landmarks 8 The university also owns and operates the 1 200 acre 486 ha University of Wisconsin Madison Arboretum located 4 miles 6 4 km south of the main campus which is also a National Historic Landmark 9 10 University of Wisconsin MadisonLatin Universitas WisconsinensisFormer namesUniversity of Wisconsin 1848 1971 MottoNumen Lumen Latin Motto in English Divine light TypePublic land grant research universityEstablishedJuly 26 1848 174 years ago July 26 1848 Parent institutionUniversity of Wisconsin SystemAccreditationHLCAcademic affiliationAAUORAUURASea grantEndowment 4 0 billion 2021 1 ChancellorJennifer L MnookinAcademic staff2 220 2 Total staff24 232 3 Students49 886 fall 2022 4 Undergraduates37 235 fall 2022 4 Postgraduates12 651 fall 2022 4 LocationMadison Wisconsin United States43 04 30 N 89 25 02 W 43 0750 N 89 4172 W 43 0750 89 4172 Coordinates 43 04 30 N 89 25 02 W 43 0750 N 89 4172 W 43 0750 89 4172CampusLarge City 5 936 acres 379 ha NewspaperThe Daily CardinalThe Badger HeraldColorsCardinal and white 6 NicknameBadgersSporting affiliationsNCAA Division I FBS Big TenWCHAMascotBucky BadgerWebsitewww wbr wisc wbr eduAn early illustration of the campus from the 1885 edition of the Wisconsin Blue Book UW Madison is organized into 20 schools and colleges which enrolled 33 506 undergraduate 9 772 graduate 1 968 special and 2 686 professional students in 2021 Its academic programs include 136 undergraduate majors 148 master s degree programs and 120 doctoral programs 2 11 A major contributor to Wisconsin s economy the university is the largest employer in the state 12 with over 24 232 faculty and staff 4 Wisconsin is one of the twelve founding members of the Association of American Universities a selective group of major research universities in North America 13 It is considered a Public Ivy 14 and is classified as an R1 University meaning that it engages in a very high level of research activity 15 In 2018 it had research and development expenditures of 1 2 billion the eighth highest among universities in the U S 16 As of March 2020 update 26 Nobel laureates 2 Fields medalists and 1 Turing award winner have been associated with UW Madison as alumni faculty or researchers Additionally as of November 2018 the current CEOs of 14 Fortune 500 companies have attended UW Madison the most of any university in the United States 17 Among the scientific advances made at UW Madison are the single grain experiment the discovery of vitamins A and B by Elmer McCollum and Marguerite Davis the development of the anticoagulant medication warfarin by Karl Paul Link the first chemical synthesis of a gene by Har Gobind Khorana the discovery of the retroviral enzyme reverse transcriptase by Howard Temin and the first synthesis of human embryonic stem cells by James Thomson UW Madison was also the home of both the prominent Wisconsin School of economics and of diplomatic history while UW Madison professor Aldo Leopold played an important role in the development of modern environmental science and conservationism 18 19 The Wisconsin Badgers compete in 25 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division I Big Ten Conference and have won 31 national championships Wisconsin students and alumni have won 50 Olympic medals including 13 gold medals 20 Contents 1 History 1 1 The Wisconsin Idea 1 2 World War II 1 3 Expansion 1 4 Student activism 1 5 Timeline of notable events 2 Admissions 2 1 Undergraduate 3 Academics 3 1 Rankings 3 1 1 International 3 1 2 National 3 2 Research 3 2 1 Big Ten Academic Alliance 3 3 College of Agricultural and Life Sciences 3 4 Letters amp Science Honors Program 3 5 WISCIENCE 3 6 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing 4 Campus 4 1 Bascom Hall 4 2 Music Hall 4 3 George L Mosse Humanities Building 4 4 Van Hise Hall 4 5 Grainger Hall 4 6 The Wisconsin Union 4 7 Dejope Hall 4 8 DeLuca Biochemistry Building 4 9 Chadbourne Residence Hall 5 Libraries 6 Museums 7 Effigy mounds 8 Athletics 8 1 Football 8 2 Men s basketball 8 3 Women s basketball 8 4 Women s ice hockey 8 5 Ice hockey 8 6 Rivalries 8 7 Mascot 9 Student life 9 1 Media 9 1 1 Student publications 9 1 2 Campus radio 9 2 Organizations 9 3 MTV s College Life 10 Notable alumni and people 11 See also 12 Notes 13 References 14 Further reading 15 External linksHistory Edit Bascom Hall fire that destroyed the dome in 1916 21 Bascom hall at dusk The university had its official beginnings when the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature in its 1838 session passed a law incorporating a University of the Territory of Wisconsin and a high ranking Board of Visitors was appointed However this body the predecessor of the U W board of regents never actually accomplished anything before Wisconsin was incorporated as a state in 1848 22 The Wisconsin Constitution provided for the establishment of a state university at or near the seat of state government and directed by the state legislature to be governed by a board of regents and administered by a Chancellor On July 26 1848 Nelson Dewey Wisconsin s first governor signed the act that formally created the University of Wisconsin 23 John H Lathrop became the university s first chancellor in the fall of 1849 24 With John W Sterling as the university s first professor mathematics the first class of 17 students met at Madison Female Academy on February 5 1849 A permanent campus site was soon selected an area of 50 acres 20 2 ha bounded north by Fourth lake east by a street to be opened at right angles with King street later State Street south by Mineral Point Road University Avenue and west by a carriage way from said road to the lake The regents building plans called for a main edifice fronting towards the Capitol three stories high surmounted by an observatory for astronomical observations 25 This building University Hall now known as Bascom Hall was finally completed in 1859 On October 10 1916 a fire destroyed the building s dome which was never replaced North Hall constructed in 1851 was actually the first building on campus In 1854 Levi Booth and Charles T Wakeley became the first graduates of the university and in 1892 the university awarded its first PhD to future university president Charles R Van Hise 26 The Wisconsin Idea Edit Research teaching and service at the UW is influenced by a tradition known as the Wisconsin Idea first articulated by UW Madison President Charles Van Hise in 1904 when he declared I shall never be content until the beneficent influence of the University reaches every home in the state 27 The Wisconsin Idea holds that the boundaries of the university should be the boundaries of the state and that the research conducted at UW Madison should be applied to solve problems and improve health quality of life the environment and agriculture for all citizens of the state The Wisconsin Idea permeates the university s work and helps forge close working relationships among university faculty and students and the state s industries and government 28 Based in Wisconsin s populist history the Wisconsin Idea continues to inspire the work of the faculty staff and students who aim to solve real world problems by working together across disciplines and demographics 29 World War II Edit During World War II University of Wisconsin was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V 12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission 30 Expansion Edit Main article University of Wisconsin System Over 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 31 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 Edit See also Sterling Hall bombing Bascom Hill 1968 with crosses placed by students protesting the Vietnam War and sign reading Bascom Memorial Cemetery Class of 1968 In the late 1960s and early 1970s UW Madison was shaken by a series of student protests and by the use of force by authorities in response comprehensively documented in the film The War at Home The first major demonstrations protested the presence on campus of recruiters for the Dow Chemical Company which supplied the napalm used in the Vietnam War Authorities used force to quell the disturbance The struggle was documented in the book They Marched into Sunlight 32 as well as the PBS documentary Two Days in October 33 Among the students injured in the protest was former Madison mayor Paul Soglin Another target of protest was the Army Mathematics Research Center AMRC in Sterling Hall which was also home of the physics department The student newspaper The Daily Cardinal published a series of investigative articles stating 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 On August 24 1970 near 3 40 am a bomb exploded next to Sterling Hall aimed at destroying the Army Math Research Center 34 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 severely damaged while the intended target the AMRC was scarcely affected 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 35 Timeline of notable events Edit Notable moments in the history of the University of Wisconsin Madison include 1848 on July 26 act creating the university signed by the governor 23 1849 on February 5 the first class meets 23 1863 Female students first admitted to University of Wisconsin during the American Civil War 36 37 38 1866 State legislature designated the university as the Wisconsin land grant institution 23 1875 William Smith Noland is the first known African American to graduate from the university 23 39 1888 Science Hall is constructed one of the world s first buildings to use I beams 40 1892 on April 4 the first edition of the student run The Daily Cardinal was published 41 1894 State Board of Regents rejected an effort to purge Professor Richard T Ely for supporting striking printers issuing the famous sifting and winnowing manifesto in defense of academic freedom later described as part of Wisconsin s Magna Carta 42 1904 1905 UW Graduate School established 23 1905 the university awards the first PhD in chemical engineering ever granted to Oliver Patterson Watts citation needed 1907 Wisconsin Union was founded 23 1909 William Purdy and Paul Beck wrote On Wisconsin the UW Madison athletic fight song 43 1907 1911 The Single grain experiment was conducted by Stephen Moulton Babcock and Edwin B Hart paving the way for modern nutrition as a science 1913 Vitamin A discovered by Elmer V McCollum and Marguerite Davis 23 1916 Vitamin B discovered by McCollum and Davis 1919 Radio station 9XM founded on campus now WHA 970 AM it is the oldest continually operating radio station in the United States 23 1923 Harry Steenbock invented process for adding vitamin D to milk 1925 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation chartered to control patenting and patent income on UW Madison inventions 23 1934 The University of Wisconsin Madison Arboretum whose mission was to restore lost landscapes such as prairies was opened 1936 UW Madison began an artist in residence program the first ever at a university with John Steuart Curry 23 1940 1951 Warfarin Coumadin developed at UW Named after Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation 1969 The Badger Herald was founded as a conservative student paper 1969 UW Madison s Howard Temin Virologist co discovers the enzyme reverse transcriptase 1970 Sterling Hall bombing 23 1984 University Research Park founded to encourage technology transfer between university and businesses 1998 UW Madison s James Thomson first isolated and cultured human embryonic stem cells 23 2020 In response to an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 and amidst a statewide public health emergency declaration UW Madison suspends in person instruction from March 23 until at least the end of the summer term shifting courses online and drastically reducing campus operations 44 Admissions EditUndergraduate Edit Admissions statistics2021 enteringclass 45 Change vs 2016Admit rate60 3 7 7 Yield rate26 1 11 1 Test scores middle 50 SAT Total1350 1480 among 15 of FTFs ACT Composite28 32 among 46 of FTFs The 2022 annual ranking of U S News amp World Report categorizes UW Madison as more selective 46 For the Class of 2025 enrolled fall 2021 UW Madison received 53 829 applications and accepted 32 466 60 3 Of those accepted 8 465 enrolled a yield rate the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university of 26 1 UW Madison s freshman retention rate is 95 2 with 89 going on to graduate within six years 45 The university started test optional admissions with the Fall 2021 incoming class in response to the COVID 19 pandemic and has extended this through Fall 2024 Of the 46 of enrolled freshmen in 2021 who submitted ACT scores the middle 50 percent Composite score was between 28 and 32 45 Of the 15 of the incoming freshman class who submitted SAT scores the middle 50 percent Composite scores were 1350 1480 45 The University of Wisconsin Madison is a college sponsor of the National Merit Scholarship Program and sponsored 10 Merit Scholarship awards in 2020 In the 2020 2021 academic year 30 freshman students were National Merit Scholars 47 Fall First Time Freshman Statistics 45 48 49 50 51 52 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016Applicants 53 829 45 941 43 921 42 741 35 615 32 887Admits 32 466 26 289 23 287 22 099 19 150 17 304Admit rate 60 3 57 2 53 0 51 7 53 8 52 6Enrolled 8 465 7 306 7 550 6 862 6 610 6 430Yield rate 26 1 27 8 32 4 31 1 34 5 37 2ACT composite out of 36 28 32 46 27 32 78 27 32 79 27 32 84 27 31 89 27 31 87 SAT composite out of 1600 1350 1480 15 1300 1440 27 1330 1450 28 1300 1480 23 1280 1450 15 middle 50 range percentage of first time freshmen who chose to submitAcademics Edit Sifting and winnowing plaque on Bascom Hall UW Madison tribute to academic freedom The University of Wisconsin Madison the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System is a large four year research university comprising twenty associated colleges and schools 15 In addition to undergraduate and graduate divisions in agriculture and life sciences business education engineering human ecology journalism and mass communication letters and science music nursing pharmacy and social welfare the university also maintains graduate and professional schools in environmental studies law library and information studies medicine and public health School of Medicine and Public Health public affairs and veterinary medicine The four year full time undergraduate instructional program is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as arts and science plus professions with a high graduate coexistence 15 The largest university college the College of Letters and Science enrolls approximately half of the undergraduate student body and is made up of 38 departments and five professional schools 53 that instruct students and carry out research in a wide variety of fields such as astronomy economics geography history linguistics and zoology The graduate instructional program is classified by Carnegie as comprehensive with medical veterinary In 2008 it granted the third largest number of doctorates in the nation 15 54 Rankings Edit Academic rankingsNationalForbes 55 49THE WSJ 56 58U S News amp World Report 57 38Washington Monthly 58 4GlobalARWU 59 31QS 60 83THE 61 81U S News amp World Report 62 63National Program Rankings 63 Program RankingAudiology 34Biological Sciences 18Business 37Chemistry 9Clinical Psychology 5Computer Science 13Earth Sciences 15Economics 12Education 4Engineering 24English 20Fine Arts 15History 9Law 29Library amp Information Studies 14Mathematics 16Medicine Primary Care 18Medicine Research 27Nursing Doctor of Nursing Practice 31Occupational Therapy 17Pharmacy 7Physical Therapy 25Physician Assistant 15Physics 17Political Science 15Psychology 13Public Affairs 25Public Health 46Rehabilitation Counseling 1Social Work 13Sociology 6Speech Language Pathology 3Statistics 16Veterinary Medicine 8International Edit In the 2021 QS World University Rankings UW Madison was ranked 65th in the world 64 The 2021 Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed UW Madison 58th worldwide based primarily on surveys administered to students faculty and recruiters 65 For 2021 UW Madison was ranked tied for 41st by U S News amp World Report among global universities 66 UW Madison was ranked 31st among world universities in 2021 by the Academic Ranking of World Universities which assesses academic and research performance 67 National Edit UW Madison s undergraduate program was ranked tied for 38th among national universities by U S News amp World Report for 2022 and tied for 10th among public colleges and universities 68 The same publication ranked UW s graduate Wisconsin School of Business tied for 42nd 68 Other graduate schools ranked by USNWR for 2022 include the School of Medicine and Public Health which was 33rd in research and 12th in primary care the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Education tied for fourth the University of Wisconsin Madison College of Engineering tied for 26th the University of Wisconsin Law School tied for 29th and the Robert M La Follette School of Public Affairs tied for 25th 68 The Wall Street Journal Times Higher Education College Rankings 2021 ranked UW Madison 65th among 801 U S colleges and universities based upon 15 individual performance indicators 69 UW Madison was ranked fourth in the nation by the Washington Monthly 2021 National University Rankings 70 In 2022 Money com positioned the University of Wisconsin Madison 17th out of 600 four year colleges universities in their Best Colleges in America list 71 Research Edit A view of UW Health University Hospital the Health Sciences Learning Center HSLC and the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research rising above Lake Mendota on the western edge of the UW Madison campus The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health housed in the HSLC accounts for 40 of UW Madison s research grants 72 UW Madison was a founding member of the Association of American Universities 73 In fiscal year 2018 the school received 1 206 billion in research and development R amp D funding placing it eighth in the U S among institutions of higher education 16 Its research programs were fourth in the number of patents issued in 2010 74 The University of Wisconsin Madison is one of 33 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 The university maintains almost 100 research centers and programs ranging from agriculture to arts from education to engineering 75 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 76 Its center for research on internal combustion engines called the Engine Research Center has a five year collaboration agreement with General Motors 77 It has also been the recipient of multimillion dollar funding from the federal government 78 In June 2013 it is reported that the United States National Institutes of Health would fund an 18 13 million study at the University of Wisconsin The study will research lethal qualities of viruses such as Ebola West Nile and influenza The goal of the study is to help find new drugs to fight off the most lethal pathogens 79 In 2012 UW Madison experiments on cats came under fire from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals who claimed the animals were abused In 2013 the NIH briefly suspended the research s funding pending an agency investigation The following year the university was fined more than 35 000 for several violations of the Animal Welfare Act Bill Maher James Cromwell and others spoke out against the experiments that ended in 2014 The university defended the research and the care the animals received claiming that PETA s objections were merely a stunt by the organization 80 81 82 Big Ten Academic Alliance Edit The University of Wisconsin is a participant in the Big Ten Academic Alliance The Big Ten Academic Alliance BTAA is the academic consortium of the universities in the Big Ten Conference Students at participating schools are allowed in house borrowing privileges at other schools libraries 83 The BTAA uses collective purchasing and licensing and has saved member institutions 19 million to date 84 Course sharing 85 professional development programs 86 study abroad and international collaborations 87 and other initiatives are also part of the BTAA College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Edit The College of Agricultural and Life Sciences fulfills the UW Madison s mission as a land grant university which dates back to 1862 when Congress passed legislation to establish a national network of colleges devoted to agriculture and mechanics and Wisconsin received 240 000 acres of allotted federal land 88 In 1885 the university began offering a winter course for farmers the Agriculture Short Course which was greatly developed and enhanced by Ransom Asa Moore from 1895 until 1907 and continues today as the Farm and Industry Short Course In 1889 the university put all of their agricultural offerings under a new College of Agriculture with W A Henry as dean 88 Professors listed in the 1896 Agricultural Short Course for the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin Madison listed popular professors such the Dean of the College of Agriculture W A Henry Feeds and Feeding S M Babcock Agricultural Chemistry Farm Dairying F H King Agricultural Physics Agricultural Mechanics and Meteorology E S Goff Plant Life Horticulture and Economic Entomology H L Russell Bacteriology J A Craig Breeds Breeding and Judging Live Stock Wm A Scott Economics of Agriculture C I King Practical Mechanics Mr R A Moore Parliamentary Procedures and Book keeping A B Sayles Farm Dairying Fred Cranefield Assistant in Green House Instruction and the previous instructor in Veterinary Science W G Clark V S The building that housed the College of Agriculture was originally created in 1889 and was centered in South Hall on Bascom Hill until the fall of 1903 when the first classes were held in the brand new College of Agriculture and Life Sciences building where it has since remained 89 The college has evolved and grown over the decades to reflect changes in the fabric of society and in the areas of knowledge that it studies Practical studies related to crop and livestock production and farm life gradually delved deeper as scientists strove to understand the underlying biological processes Today the college generates new knowledge about agriculture natural resources management and protection human health and nutrition community development and related topics Faculty and staff in 19 academic departments and a number of interdisciplinary programs carry out these lines of study 88 It has 12 associated research centers including the Marshfield Agricultural Research Station and research centers in Arlington among other locations in Wisconsin 90 Letters amp Science Honors Program Edit The L amp S Honors Program serves over 1300 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 research opportunities and funding 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 WISCIENCE Edit The Wisconsin Institute for Science Education and Community Engagement WISCIENCE is a unit that facilitates coordination of science outreach efforts across the university and works to improve science education at all levels 91 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Edit The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing is a post graduate program for emerging writers offered by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Wisconsin Madison Each year it awards internationally competitive nine month fellowships to writers of fiction and poetry who have yet to publish a second book 92 Notable past Fellows include Anthony Doerr Ann Packer and Quan Barry 93 The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing offers two fellowships in fiction and three fellowships in poetry These include the James C McCreight Fiction Fellowship the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellowship the Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship the Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellowship and the First Wave Poetry Fellowship Additionally it offers the Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship to a second year candidate of the University of Wisconsin Madison s MFA program in creative writing in order to fund a third year of study Fellows receive a cash prize of a minimum of 38 000 as well as health insurance Fellows are required to live in the Madison Wisconsin area for the duration of their fellowships teach one creative writing workshop each semester assist in judging the English department s writing contests and fellowships and give a public reading 92 94 The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing was founded in 1985 by the poet Ronald Wallace who taught at the University of Wisconsin s English department from 1972 to 2015 95 WICW was created to provide time space and an intellectual community for writers working on a first book of poetry or fiction In 2012 the Institute expanded its fellowship eligibility requirements to include writers who have published only one book length work of creative writing 92 From 2008 to 2014 it offered the Carl Djerassi Distinguished Playwriting Fellowship in addition to fiction and poetry fellowships 93 Fellowship applications are judged anonymously until finalists are chosen However it is the work and the work alone that really matters says Jesse Lee Kercheval in a conversation with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs 96 List of current and former Fellows 93 Year Fellows1986 1987 Juanita Brunk Debra Spark1987 1988 Mari Hatta Marly Swick1988 1989 Ann Packer Lise Goett1989 1990 Heather Aronson Adele Ne Jame1990 1991 Michael Barrett Max Garland1991 1992 Charles D Ambrosio Karen Kovacik1992 1993 Sara Corbett Lisa Rhoades1993 1994 Aaron Anstett Rebecca Lee1994 1995 Joel Brouwer Eileen Fitzgerald1995 1996 Jon Loomis Nancy Reisman1996 1997 Anne Caston Joseph Skibell1997 1998 Allyson Goldin Loomis Sarah Messer Brad Owens Jennifer Tonge1998 1999 Benn Ann Fennelly John McNally Judith Claire Mitchell Stephen Schottenfeld Katharine Whitcomb1999 2000 Quan Barry Anthony Doerr Rick Hilles Holiday Reinhorn Lysley Tenorio2000 2001 Antoine Wilson Jennifer Vanderbes Erica Olsen Aimee Nezhukumatathil Blas Manuel De Luna Ryan G van Cleave2001 2002 Deborah Bernhardt Susanna Daniel Ha yun Jung Erika Meitner Imad Rahman Mitch Raney2002 2003 Ashley Capps Miriam Gershow Tamara Avila Guirado Lydia Melvin Srikanth Reddy David Zimmerman2003 2004 Josh Bell Matt Frieidson Frances Hwang Nathan S Jones Jacinda Townsend Sharmila Voorakkara2004 2005 Eric Burger Justin Haynes John Lee Ellen Litman Kirk Lee Davis Cynthia Marie Hoffman2005 2006 Colleen Abel Gabrielle Daniels Rebecca Dunham Brandi Reissenweber Adam Stumacher Kate Umans2006 2007 Danielle Evans Sean Hill Jennifer Key Laleh Khadivi Derek Mong April Wilder2007 2008 Danielle Deulen Kevin A Gonzalez Nick Lantz Shara Lessley Dan O Brien Edward Porter Tim Scott2008 2009 Traci Brimhall Andrew Milward Stuart Nadler Michael Weller Jill Osier Amanda Rea Emma Straub2009 2010 Lauren Berry Nate Brown Jason England Len Jenkin Chris Mohar John Murillo Michael Sheehan2010 2011 Laurel Bastian Sean Bishop Lydia Fitzpatrick Sarah Gubbins Rebecca Hazelton Andrew Mortazavi Sterling Schildt2011 2012 Nicole Cullen Laura Eve Engel Pilar Gomez Ibanez Mehdi Tavana Okasi Jacques J Rancourt Emily Ruskovich Martin Zimmerman2012 2013 Ari Banias Miriam Cohen Jaquira Diaz Sara Gelston Sarah Hulse Alyssa Knickerbocker Elaine Romero2013 2014 Jesse Damiani Patricia Grace King Jennifer Luebbers Bonnie Metzgar Matthew Modica D J Thielke Timothy Daniel Welch2014 2015 Brian Booker Ben Hoffman Lauren Russell Walter B Thompson Meg Wade2015 2016 Jordan Jacks Josh Kalscheur Karyna McGlynn Mika Taylor Mark Wagenaar2016 2017 Derrick Austin Jamel Brinkley Natalie Eilbert Sarah Fuchs Marcela Fuentes Barrett Swanson2017 2018 Oliver Baez Bendorf Leila Chatti Tia Clark Marta Evans2018 2019 Aria Aber Chekwube O Danladi Natasha Oladokun Emily Shetler Lucy Tan Mary Terrier Kate Wisel2019 2020 Claire Agnes R Cassandra Bruner Sean Hammer Clemonce Heard Wes Holtermann Gabriel Louis Natasha Oladokun Xandria Phillips2020 2021 Emma Binder Jari Bradley Sasha Debevec McKenney Victoria C Flanagan Sandra Hong Taylor KoekkoekCampus Edit Overhead view of central campus in the 1920s Located in Madison about a mile from the state capitol the main campus of the university is situated partially on the isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona The main campus comprises 933 acres 378 ha of land while the entire campus including research stations throughout the state is over 10 600 acres 4 290 ha in area The central campus is on an urban layout mostly coinciding with the city of Madison s street grid exceptions being the suburban University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and the Department of Psychiatry amp Clinics in the West Side research park The University of Wisconsin Madison Arboretum a demonstration area for native ecosystems is located on the west side of Madison The main campus includes many buildings designed or supervised by architects J T W Jennings and Arthur Peabody The hub of campus life is the Memorial Union UW Madison s campus has been ranked as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States by Travel Leisure and Conde Nast Traveler 97 98 One unusual feature of the campus is the Babcock Hall dairy plant and store a fully functional dairy well known for its ice cream 99 100 Bascom Hall Edit Bascom Hall atop Bascom Hill at the heart of the campus As one of the icons on campus Bascom Hall 101 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 in 1916 The structure has been added to several times over the years The building currently houses the office of the 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 102 Music Hall Edit Music Hall A photo of the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences building on UW s campus This 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 103 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 George L Mosse Humanities Building Edit The George L Mosse Humanities Building located on Library Mall was built in the late 1960s in the Brutalist style Although debunked the campus myth is that the building with its poor ventilation narrow windows inclined base and cantilevered upper floors was designed to be riot proof 104 105 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 106 in part because of water damage 107 108 Van Hise Hall Edit Van Hise Hall seen from Linden Drive Van Hise Hall is home to most of the languages departments of the university 109 and the upper floors house the offices of the University of Wisconsin System s president and its Board of Regents At 241 feet and 19 stories Van Hise is the second tallest building in Madison and one of the tallest educational buildings in the world 110 Because of its placement atop Bascom Hill it towers over the State Capitol as the building with the highest elevation in the city Van Hise Hall was constructed in 1967 and its destruction is slated for sometime around 2025 as part of the university s campus master plan 111 Grainger Hall Edit Grainger Business Hall and Conference center Home of the Wisconsin School of Business Grainger Hall was built in 1993 In 2008 it underwent a major renovation and addition to assist the 12 MBA specialization programs that were housed there 112 The addition occupies the corner of Park Street and University Avenue projecting the school s crest outward in a location that once housed a bank 113 Grainger Hall occupies an entire city block Grainger Hall also houses an array of student run organizations both undergraduate and graduate There are major specific organizations as well as organizations that welcome all students Several of the clubs are Madison chapters of nationwide organizations others are honor societies that require a minimum grade point average while some exist simply to network with other students The Wisconsin Union Edit The Memorial Union as seen from the Library Mall on the UW Madison campus The University of Wisconsin Madison has two student unions The older Memorial Union was built in 1928 to honor American World War I veterans Also known as the Union or the Terrace it has gained a reputation as one of the most beautiful student centers on a university campus Located on the shore of Lake Mendota it is a popular spot for socializing among both students and the public who enjoy gazing at the lake and its sailboats The union is known for the Rathskeller a German pub adjacent to the lake terrace Political debates and backgammon and sheepshead games over a beer on the terrace are common among students The Rathskeller serves Rathskeller Ale a beer brewed expressly for the Terrace Memorial Union was the first union at a public university to serve beer 114 Hoofer Badger Sloops on Lake Mendota behind Memorial Union Memorial Union is home to many arts venues including several art galleries a movie theater the Wisconsin Union Theater and a craft shop that provides courses and facilities for arts and crafts activities 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 in 2006 and the university is currently undergoing the expansion 115 Union South the newer campus union was built in 1971 to better accommodate a growing student enrollment and was demolished in 2008 A new green Union South located on the site of the old union opened April 15 2011 It is a certified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED gold building 116 The building contains several dining options an art gallery a climbing wall a bowling alley event spaces and a hotel 117 118 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 One of the most well known members of WUD is the Wisconsin Hoofers a club that organizes outdoor recreational activities 119 Dejope Hall Edit Dejope Residence Hall On May 22 2012 the Ho Chunk Nation of Wisconsin passed a resolution permitting the usage of the name Dejope a variation of the original Ho chunk term for a new residence hall at the university Teejop means Four Lakes in the Ho Chunk language and Native Americans have used this word to describe the Madison area for thousands of years 120 The residence hall was planned as a symbol of the ongoing cooperative relationship between University of Wisconsin Madison and the Ho Chunk nation and the building and its grounds contain imagery of the mounds and lakes in the area A fire circle in front of the building contains plaques representing all 11 Native American nations in Wisconsin Images of the four effigy mounds that are located on the campus Observatory Hill Willow Drive Picnic Point and Eagle Heights are embedded into the flooring of the building s main floor An acrylic depiction of Lake Mendota is located in the conference room and another artwork of glass and metal depicting the Four Lakes is located in the East Hall Dejope Hall is the eighth largest residence hall on the UW Madison campus DeLuca Biochemistry Building Edit The Hector F DeLuca Biochemistry Building part of the Hector F DeLuca Complex was built in 1912 and was extensively remodeled in 2012 The building is home to floor to ceiling murals painted by John Steuart Curry Home to the Department of Biomolecular Chemistry the building also includes Department of Biochemistry facilities Chadbourne Residence Hall Edit Chadbourne Residence Hall was constructed in 1959 with major renovations ranging from 2007 to 2010 Chadbourne Residence Hall also houses the Chadbourne Residential College a building wide living learning community 121 Chadbourne Residence Hall is connected to Rheta s Market a buffet style dining hall 122 Libraries Edit A view of the Wisconsin State Capitol from atop Bascom Hill The Mosse Humanities building is on the right Wisconsin Historical Society fore and Memorial Library rear on the left The University of Wisconsin Madison has the 12th largest research library collection in North America 123 More than 40 professional and special purpose libraries serve the campus 124 The campus library collections include more than 8 3 million volumes representing human inquiry through all of history 123 In addition the collections comprised more than 101 000 serial titles 6 4 million microform items and over 8 2 million items in other formats such as government documents maps musical scores and audiovisual materials 123 Over 1 million volumes are circulated to library users every year 125 Memorial Library serves as the principal research facility on campus for the humanities and social sciences It is the largest library in the state with over 3 5 million volumes 126 It also houses a periodical collection domestic and foreign newspapers Special Collections 127 the Mills Music Library 128 a letterpress printing museum 129 and the UW Digital Collections Center 130 Steenbock Memorial Library is the primary library for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences School of Human Ecology School of Veterinary Medicine UW Extension and Cooperative Extension and Zoology and Botany Departments The University of Wisconsin Madison Archives and Records Management Department and Oral History Program are also located in Steenbock Library The library is named for UW professor Harry Steenbock 1886 1967 who developed an inexpensive method of enriching foods with Vitamin D in the 1920s This library is open to the public Undergraduates can find many of the resources they need at College Library in Helen C White Hall 131 Special collections there include Ethnic Studies Career Women s and Gaus Poetry The Open Book collection created to support the extra academic interests of undergraduates contains DVDs audio books and video games and paperback books 132 The library also has a coffee shop the Open Book Cafe 133 College Library houses a media center with over 200 computer workstations DV editing stations scanners poster printing and equipment checkout including laptops digital cameras projectors and more The Kurt F Wendt Library 134 serves the College of Engineering 135 and the Departments of Computer Sciences 136 Statistics 137 and Atmospheric amp Oceanic Sciences 138 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 and provides reference tools and assistance for both the general public and the UW Madison community Ebling Library for the Health Sciences is located in the Health Sciences Learning Center It opened in 2004 after the Middleton Library Weston Library and Power Pharmaceutical Library merged collections and staff 139 The LGBT Student Center located in the Red Gym functions as a library for queer themed fiction and non fiction and provides training and resources for the entire campus 140 141 The Kohler Art Library is located in the Conrad A Elvehjem Building across from the Chazen Museum of Art and serves as the main campus resource for art and architecture The library supports the Departments of Art and Art History as well as the Chazen Museum Its collections number over 185 000 volumes covering global art movements of all periods 142 A feature of the library is the Artists Book Collection which contains over 1 000 artists books from 175 presses and artists 142 The collection created as a teaching resource in 1970 by founding Kohler Art Library Director William C Bunce was digitized in 2007 by the UW Digital Collections Center 143 The Kohler Art Library is open to the public The online catalog for UW Madison Libraries is MadCat 144 It includes bibliographic records for books periodicals audiovisual materials maps music scores microforms and computer databases owned by over 40 campus libraries as well as records for items that are on order The UW Madison Libraries website provides access to resources licensed for use by those affiliated with UW Madison in addition to those openly available on the World Wide Web Museums Edit Wisconsin Historical Society The 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 145 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 146 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 Galapagos 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 Galapagos Islands 147 The L R Ingersoll Physics Museum contains a range of exhibits demonstrating classical and modern physics Many of the exhibits allow for hands on interaction by visitors The museum also has a number of historical instruments and pictures on display 148 Effigy mounds Edit Willow Drive Effigy Mounds UW Madison claims more distinct archaeological sites than on any other university campus 149 The campus contains four clusters of effigy mounds located at Observatory Hill Willow Drive Picnic Point and Eagle Heights These sites reflecting thousands of years of human habitation in the area have survived to a greater or lesser degree on campus depending on location and past building activities Surviving sites are marked and fenced on the campus ensuring that they are not disturbed Wisconsin statutes protect effigy mounds by giving them a five foot buffer zone 150 151 The Lakeshore Nature Preserve Committee is endeavoring to safeguard beloved cultural landscapes through aggressive enforcement of measures for the preservation of such zones and advocating for broader buffers where possible 152 Athletics EditMain article Wisconsin Badgers The University of Wisconsin Madison sports teams participate in the NCAA s Division I A With the exception of lightweight Wisconsin Badgers Crew the university s athletic programs compete in the Big Ten Conference The women s hockey program competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association WCHA while the men s and women s crew programs compete in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges and Eastern Association of Women s Rowing Colleges respectively The school s fight song is On Wisconsin The school s mascot is Buckingham U Badger commonly referred to as Bucky Badger The athletic director is Chris McIntosh 2005 2006 marked the first time in school history that four Badger teams won national championships in the same academic year 153 In the fall the men s cross country team won its fourth national championship 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 154 Football Edit Main article Wisconsin Badgers football Camp Randall Stadium The Badgers play college football at Camp Randall Stadium The head coach is Luke Fickell Before the fourth quarter of every game at Camp Randall the crowd jumps around to House of Pain s song Jump Around After every game the University of Wisconsin Marching Band plays popular songs during the Fifth Quarter 155 156 157 The Badgers won three Rose Bowl Championships under Barry Alvarez in 1994 1999 and 2000 In 2006 Bret Bielema led the Badgers to a school record at that time 11 win regular season and to 12 overall wins defeating Arkansas in the Capital One Bowl Coach Paul Chryst would later break that record as he led the Badgers to 12 regular season wins in the 2017 2018 campaign as well as a 34 24 victory over Miami in the Orange Bowl for a season total of 13 wins Chryst also won a Cotton Bowl the year before the Orange Bowl win 158 The Badgers lost to TCU in the 2011 Rose Bowl Championship on January 1 2011 In the 2011 season the Badgers defended the B1G championship title to go to the 2012 Rose Bowl Championship The Badgers lost to Oregon 45 38 in the highest scoring Rose Bowl of all time 159 The Badgers made it to the 2013 Rose Bowl for their third consecutive Rose Bowl appearance Bret Bielema took the Arkansas football head coaching position before the game and Barry Alvarez took over as a one game interim coach 160 The Badgers lost to Stanford 14 20 for Barry Alvarez s first Rose Bowl loss he had previously won it three times 161 Men s basketball Edit Men s basketball game as seen from the student section at the Kohl Center Main article Wisconsin Badgers men s basketball The Badgers have made 19 consecutive appearances 1999 2017 in the NCAA Tournament having played in the National Championship game in 2015 making Final Four visits in 2000 and 2014 an Elite Eight appearance in 2005 and Sweet Sixteen appearances in 2003 2008 2011 2012 2016 and 2017 162 Bo Ryan was the head coach from 2001 to 2015 Greg Gard is the current head coach The Badgers play at the Kohl Center where the student fans are known as AreaRED In the 2006 2007 season the Badgers attained their highest AP ranking in school history 1 Feb 19 25 garnering 35 first place votes 163 The Badgers earned their only NCAA National Championship in 1941 Women s basketball Edit Main article Wisconsin Badgers women s basketball Women s ice hockey Edit Main article Wisconsin Badgers women s ice hockey Ice hockey Edit Main article Wisconsin Badgers men s ice hockey Men s hockey game played at the Kohl Center Badger ice hockey first became a men s varsity sport in 1922 Although dropped after the 1934 35 season it again became a varsity sport in the 1963 64 season The men s team played in the Dane County Coliseum until moving to the Kohl Center capacity 15 359 in the fall of 1998 The first ice hockey game played at the Kohl was the Hall of Fame game against the University of Notre Dame From 1999 to 2012 the men s team led the nation in college hockey attendance setting an NCAA attendance record averaging 15 048 during the 2009 10 season which surpassed their previous record set in 2006 07 164 Bob Johnson nicknamed Badger Bob by fans took over the reins in 1966 Johnson coached the Badger men to three national championships in 1973 1977 and 1981 Jeff Sauer coached the Badger men to two more titles in 1983 and 1990 Mike Eaves member of the 1977 NCAA title team coached the Badger men s team to its sixth national championship in 2006 The six Badger titles rank fourth in NCAA men s ice hockey history 165 Eaves 2010 squad advanced to the national championship game during the Badgers 11th appearance in the men s Frozen Four before bowing to Boston College 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 another member of the men s 1977 title team the Badger women won their first NCAA championship on March 26 2006 The dual 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 166 The women s team repeated as national champions in 2007 with a victory over the University of Minnesota Duluth and in 2009 with a victory over Mercyhurst The team set the NCAA women s hockey attendance record on February 15 2014 in a game against Minnesota 167 Rivalries Edit Badgers celebrate their win by carrying Paul Bunyan s Axe around TCF Bank Stadium after the 2009 game The Wisconsin Badgers most notable rivalry within the Big Ten is with the University of Minnesota which is the most played rivalry in Division I A football 168 169 170 In their annual college football game the teams 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 wins earn points for their university Men s basketball rivalries include Michigan State Illinois and non conference in state Marquette The Wisconsin Madison men s and women s hockey teams most recognized rivals are the Golden Gophers of the University of Minnesota and the Fighting Hawks of the University of North Dakota Other rivals include the University of Denver Colorado College Michigan Tech University of Minnesota Duluth and St Cloud State Mascot Edit Main article Bucky Badger The school 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 At Wisconsin football games in the 1920s live mascots were used to inspire fans The animals used included a black bear a bonnet monkey and live badgers 1949 was the first year a student sporting a papier mache badger head appeared this subsequently replaced the use of live badgers 171 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 172 173 In 2009 Fulton Market Films produced the documentary Being Bucky which followed the lives of seven Wisconsin students who take on the role of Bucky Badger 174 Being Bucky won Best Documentary Film at the Wisconsin Film Festival and went on to play in local Wisconsin movie theaters 175 Student life EditStudent body composition as of May 2 2022 Race and ethnicity 176 TotalWhite 68 68 Foreign national 9 9 Asian 8 8 Other a 7 7 Hispanic 6 6 Black 2 2 Economic diversityLow income b 14 14 Affluent c 86 86 Over 800 student organizations or clubs register with the Center for Leadership and Involvement CFLI at UW Madison each year 177 Media Edit Student publications Edit UW Madison is the only university in the country with two daily student newspapers 178 179 180 181 The Daily Cardinal founded in 1892 and The Badger Herald founded in 1969 The Onion was founded in 1988 by two UW Madison juniors and was published in Madison before moving to New York City in 2001 It is also the home of The Madison Misnomer an undergraduate comedy newspaper founded in 2007 UW Madison is also home to one of only two nationally distributed undergraduate international studies journals in the country The Journal of Undergraduate International Studies JUIS is a competitive publication that features peer reviewed academic articles It was founded in 2003 by David Coddon with the support of the University of Wisconsin Madison Leadership Trust Campus radio Edit The University of Wisconsin Madison campus radio station is WSUM 91 7 FM The Snake on the Lake 182 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 United States Federal Communications Commission 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 200 volunteer DJs and eight 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 play by play broadcasts of Badger athletic events and unique public service announcements 183 Organizations Edit Wisconsin Lutheran Chapel Student organizations at the school include chapters of the fraternities Acacia 184 Alpha Chi Omega 185 Alpha Delta Phi 186 Alpha Gamma Rho 187 Delta Chi 188 and Sigma Alpha 189 Alpha Chi Sigma was founded at the university in 1902 Religious student organizations include affiliates of the Christian organizations Athletes in Action 190 Chi Alpha Campus Ministries 191 and the Christian Legal Society 192 Pres House 193 is a progressive student organization loosely associated with the PCUSA that welcomes students of all backgrounds to its worship and various other gatherings Wisconsin Lutheran Chapel is a Christian chapel and campus ministry that serves students of UW Madison 194 UW is also home to student vehicles teams such as Formula SAE combustion and electric Baja SAE SAE Clean Snow ASME Human Powered Vehicle Wisconsin Autonomous Concrete Canoe and formerly the UW Hybrid Vehicle Team and Badgerloop 195 There are 8 A cappella groups on the UW Madison campus Of them two are mixed voice two are lower voice two are upper voice and two are themed mixed voice The groups are the MadHatters Redefined A Cappella Fundamentally Sound Pitches and Notes Tangled up in Blue Under A Rest Jewop and Wisconsin Waale MTV s College Life Edit On April 13 2009 MTV premiered the reality series College Life about the day to day lives of eight UW Madison freshmen 196 The show was created by UW Madison alumnus David Wexler 197 According to MTV 198 the students did the filming for the series but not the editing During production the university pulled its support of the show Subsequently a disclaimer was aired at the beginning of each episode stating that UW Madison does not endorse the program Eight episodes had aired as of 22 February 2010 update Signal and location blockers have been added for student safety as of 13 January 2020 update Notable alumni and people EditFor a more comprehensive list see List of University of Wisconsin Madison people John Muir naturalist founder of the Sierra Club instrumental in preserving Yosemite National Park Frank Lloyd Wright architect known for designing the Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater among other works Elmer McCollum biochemist discoverer of Vitamins A B and D Charles Lindbergh aviator and military officer remembered for the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean Robert M La Follette politician and lawyer Progressive Era leader former Congressman Senator 20th Governor of Wisconsin and Presidential candidate Joyce Carol Oates National Book Award winning author of plays poetry short stories and nonfiction Laurel Clark medical doctor and NASA astronaut flew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia John Bardeen physicist only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice Herb Kohl businessman and politician United States Senator Jim Lovell astronaut one of the first humans to fly to and orbit the Moon commanded Apollo 13 Gaylord Nelson environmentalist and politician founder of Earth Day 35th Governor of and later United States Senator from Wisconsin Dick Cheney politician and businessman 46th Vice President of the United States of America Tony Evers politician and educator 46th current Governor of Wisconsin Tammy Baldwin politician and lawyer current United States Senator first openly LGBT person elected to the United States Senate Jim Jordan US Representative for Ohio s 4th Congressional District and founding member of the House Freedom Caucus Manu Raju television journalist Senior Congressional Correspondent for CNN Greta Van Susteren commentator lawyer and television news anchor for CNN Fox News and NBC News Joan Cusack actor Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Anders Holm actor writer comedian and producer Bud Selig ninth Commissioner of Major League Baseball Jeffrey Sprecher chairman of the New York Stock Exchange founder and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange Russell Wilson Super Bowl XLVIII champion and Denver Broncos quarterback J J Watt defensive end for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League Virgil Abloh fashion designer and founder of Off White Steve Miller guitarist singer and songwriter leader of the Steve Miller Band Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Yung Gravy rapper from Minnesota known for his RIAA certified Platinum single Mr Clean Chuck Robb former governor and U S senator from Virginia co chair of the 2004 Iraq Intelligence CommissionAs of October 2018 26 Nobel laureates and 2 Fields medalists have been associated with UW Madison as alumni faculty or researchers Additionally as of November 2018 the current CEOs of 14 Fortune 500 companies have attended UW Madison the most of any university in the United States 199 Notable CEOs who have attended UW Madison include Thomas J Falk Kimberly Clark Carol Bartz Yahoo David J Lesar Halliburton Keith Nosbusch Rockwell Automation Lee Raymond Exxon Mobil Tom Kingsbury Burlington Stores and Judith Faulkner Epic Systems As of 2017 update UW Madison had more than 427 000 living alumni Although a large number of alumni live in Wisconsin a significant number live in Illinois Minnesota New York California and Washington D C 200 UW Madison alumni faculty or former faculty have been awarded 26 201 Nobel Prizes and 38 Pulitzer Prizes 200 See also EditBadgerloop a SpaceX Hyperloop Competition Team MadFiber Ice Cream created by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences UW Hybrid Vehicle Team Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Notes Edit Other consists of Multiracial Americans amp those who prefer to not say The 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