University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Latin:Universitas Wisconsinensis[citation needed]
Former names	University of Wisconsin (1848–1971)
Motto	Numen Lumen[1](Latin)
Motto in English	"The divine within the universe, however manifested, is my light" or "God, our light"
Type	Publicland-grantresearch university
Established	July 26, 1848; 176 years ago(July 26, 1848)
Parent institution	University of Wisconsin System
Accreditation	HLC
Academic affiliation	AAU ORAU URA Sea-grant
Endowment	$4.0 billion (2021)[2]
Budget	$4.3 billion (2023)[3]
Chancellor	Jennifer L. Mnookin
Provost	Charles Lee Isbell Jr.
Academic staff	2,220[4]
Total staff	24,232[5]
Students	49,886 (fall 2022)[6]
Undergraduates	37,235 (fall 2022)[6]
Postgraduates	12,651 (fall 2022)[6]
Location	Madison , Wisconsin , United States 43°04′30″N89°25′02″W / 43.0750°N 89.4172°W /43.0750; -89.4172
Campus	Large city[7], 938 acres (380 ha)
Newspaper	The Daily Cardinal The Badger Herald
Colors	Cardinal and white[8]
Nickname	Badgers
Sporting affiliations	NCAA Division I FBS–Big Ten WCHA EARC
Mascot	Bucky Badger
Website	www.wisc.edu

TheUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison(University of Wisconsin,Wisconsin,UW,UW–Madison, or simplyMadison) is apublicland-grantresearch universityinMadison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded whenWisconsinachievedstatehoodin 1848, UW–Madison is the official state university of Wisconsin and the flagship campus of theUniversity of Wisconsin System. It was the first public university established in Wisconsin and remains the oldest and largest public university in the state. UW–Madison became a land-grant institution in 1866.^[9]The 933-acre (378 ha) main campus, located on the shores ofLake Mendota, includes fourNational Historic Landmarks.^[10]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.^[11][12]

UW–Madison is organized into 13 schools and colleges, which enrolled 35,184 undergraduate, 9,993 graduate, 2,046 special, and 2,663 professional students in 2022.^[13]Its academic programs include 136 undergraduate majors, 148 master's degree programs, and 120doctoralprograms.^[4][14]

Wisconsin is one of the twelve founding members of theAssociation of American Universities, a selective group of major research universities in North America.^[15]It is considered aPublic Ivy,^[16]and is classified as anR1 University.^[17]UW–Madison was also the home of both the prominent"Wisconsin School" of economicsanddiplomatic history. TheNational Science Foundationranked UW–Madison 8th among American universities for research and development expenditures in 2022 with $1.52 billion (equivalent to $1,582,569,934 in 2023).^[18][19]As of March 2023^[update], 20Nobel laureates, 41Pulitzer Prizewinners, 2Fields medalists, and 1Turing Awardrecipient have been affiliated with UW–Madison asalumni, faculty, or researchers. It is also a leading producer ofFulbright ScholarsandMacArthur Fellows.^[20]As of November 2018^[update], 14CEOsofFortune 500companies attended UW–Madison, the most of any university in the nation.^[21]

TheWisconsin Badgerscompete in 25 intercollegiate sports in theNCAA Division IBig Ten Conferenceand have won 31national championships. Wisconsin students and alumni have won50 Olympic medals(including 13 gold medals).^[22]

The university had its official beginnings when theWisconsin Territorial Legislaturein its 1838 session passed a law incorporating a "University of the Territory of Wisconsin", and a high-rankingboard of visitorswas appointed. However, this body (the predecessor of the UWboard of regents) never actually accomplished anything beforeWisconsinwas incorporated as a state in 1848.^[23]

TheWisconsin Constitutionprovided 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 aboard of regentsand administered by aChancellor. On July 26, 1848,Nelson Dewey, Wisconsin's firstgovernor, signed the act that formally created the University of Wisconsin.^[24]John H. Lathropbecame the university's first chancellor, in the fall of 1849.^[25]WithJohn W. Sterlingas the university's first professor (mathematics), the first class of 17 students met atMadison Female Academyon 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."^[27]This building, University Hall, now known asBascom 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 firstPhDto futureuniversity presidentCharles R. Van Hise.^[28]

Research, teaching, and service at the UW is influenced by a tradition known as "theWisconsin Idea", first articulated by UW–Madison PresidentCharles Van Hisein 1904, when he declared "I shall never be content until the beneficent influence of the University reaches every home in the state."^[29]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, theenvironment, 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.^[30]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.^[31]

During World War II, the University of Wisconsin was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in theV-12 Navy College Training Programwhich offered students a path to a Navy commission.^[32]

Over time, additional campuses were added to the university. TheUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukeewas created in 1956, and UW–Green Bay and UW–Parkside in 1968. Ten freshman-sophomore centers were also added to this system.^[33]In 1971, Wisconsin legislators passed a law merging the University of Wisconsin with the nine universities and four freshman-sophomore branch campuses of theWisconsin State Universities System, creating the University of Wisconsin System and bringing the two higher education systems under a single board of regents.

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 filmThe War at Home. The first major demonstrations protested the presence on campus ofrecruitersfor theDow ChemicalCompany, which supplied thenapalmused in theVietnam War. Authorities used force to quell the disturbance. The struggle was documented in the book,They Marched into Sunlight,^[34]as well as the PBS documentaryTwo Days in October.^[35]Among the students injured in the protest was former Madison mayorPaul 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 toUS Department of Defenserequests, 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.^[36]Despite the late hour, apost 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, andDavid Finewere found responsible for the blast.Leo Burtwas identified as a suspect, but was never apprehended or tried.^[37]

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

• 1848on July 26, act creating the university signed by the governor^[24]
• 1849on February 5, the first class meets^[24]
• 1863Female students first admitted to University of Wisconsin during theAmerican Civil War^[38][39][40]
• 1866State legislature designated the university as the Wisconsin land-grant institution^[24]
• 1875William Smith Noland is the first known African-American to graduate from the university.^[24][41]
• 1888Science Hallis constructed, one of the world's first buildings to useI-beams^[42]
• 1892on April 4, the first edition of the student-runThe Daily Cardinalwas published^[43]
• 1894State Board of Regents rejected an effort to purge ProfessorRichard T. Elyfor supporting striking printers, issuing the famous "sifting and winnowing" manifesto in defense ofacademic freedom, later described as "part of Wisconsin's Magna Carta"^[44]
• 1904–1905UW Graduate School established^[24]
• 1905the university awards the first PhD inchemical engineeringever granted, toOliver Patterson Watts.^{[citation needed]}
• 1907Wisconsin Unionwas founded^[24]
• 1909William Purdyand Paul Beck wroteOn, Wisconsinthe UW–Madison athletic fight song^[45]
• 1907–1911The "Single-grain experiment" was conducted byStephen Moulton BabcockandEdwin B. Hart, paving the way for modern nutrition as a science
• 1913Vitamin Adiscovered byElmer V. McCollumandMarguerite Davis^[24]
• 1916Vitamin Bdiscovered by McCollum and Davis
• 1919Radio station 9XM founded on campus (nowWHA(970 AM), it is the oldest continually operating radio station in the United States)^[24]
• 1923Harry Steenbockinvented process for addingvitamin Dtomilk
• 1925Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundationchartered to control patenting and patent income on UW–Madison inventions^[24]
• 1928Memorial Unionopened
• 1934TheUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Arboretum, whose mission was to restore lost landscapes, such as prairies, was opened
• 1936UW–Madison began anartist-in-residenceprogram, the first ever at a university, withJohn Steuart Curry^[24]
• 1940–1951Warfarin(Coumadin) developed at UW. Named afterWisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
• 1969The Badger Heraldwas founded as a conservative student paper
• 1969UW–Madison'sHoward Temin(Virologist) co-discovers the enzymereverse transcriptase
• 1970Sterling Hall bombing^[24]
• 1984University Research Park founded to encourage technology transfer between university and businesses
• 1998UW–Madison'sJames Thomsonfirst isolated and cultured human embryonic stem cells^[24]
• 2020In response to anongoing pandemicofcoronavirus disease 2019and amidst astatewide public health emergency declaration, UW–Madisonsuspends in-person instructionfrom March 23 until at least the end of the summer term, shifting coursesonlineand drastically reducing campus operations.^[46]

Undergraduate admissions statistics
2023 entering class [47] Change vs. 2018
Admit rate	43.3% (−8.4)
Yield rate	28.9% (−2.2)
Test scoresmiddle 50%
SATTotal	1370–1500 (among 18% ofFTFsfor Fall 2022)
ACTComposite	28–33 (among 38% ofFTFsfor Fall 2022)
High schoolGPA
Average	3.88 (Fall 2022)

ThePrinceton Reviewranked the University of Wisconsin–Madison's undergraduate admissions selectivity a 92/99.^[48]The 2022 annual ranking ofU.S. News & World Reportcategorizes UW–Madison as "more selective".^[49]For the Class of 2027 (enrolled Fall 2023), UW–Madison received 63,537 applications and accepted 27,527 (43.3%). Of those accepted, 7,966 enrolled, for a totalyield rate(the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) of 28.9%. UW–Madison's freshmanretention rateis 94.2%, with 89.2% going on to graduate within six years.^[50]

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 38% of enrolled freshmen in 2022 who submittedACTscores; the middle 50 percent Composite score was between 28 and 33.^[50]Of the 18% of the incoming freshman class who submittedSATscores; the middle 50 percent Composite scores were 1370–1500.^[50]The average unweighted GPA among enrolled freshman was 3.88.^[50]

Admission isneed-blindfor domestic applicants.^[51]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 wereNational Merit Scholars.^[52]

Fall First-Time Freshman Statistics ^{[47] [50] [53] [54] [55] [56]}

	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018
Applicants	63,537	60,260	53,829	45,941	43,921	42,741
Admits	27,527	29,546	32,466	26,289	23,287	22,099
Admit rate	43.3	49.0	60.3	57.2	53.0	51.7
Enrolled	7,966	8,635	8,465	7,306	7,550	6,862
Yield rate	28.9	29.2	26.1	27.8	32.4	31.1
ACT composite* (out of 36)	N/A	28–33 (38%†)	28–32 (46%†)	27–32 (78%†)	27–32 (79%†)	27–32 (84%†)
SAT composite* (out of 1600)	N/A	1370–1500 (18%†)	1350–1480 (15%†)	1300–1440 (27%†)	1330–1450 (28%†)	1300–1480 (23%†)
* middle 50% range †percentage of first-time freshmen who chose to submit

Academic divisions
College/School	Year Founded
Letters & Science	1848
Engineering	1857
Law	1868
Pharmacy	1883
Agricultural & Life Sciences	1889
Music	1895
Business	1900
Human Ecology	1903
Medicine & Public Health	1907
Nursing	1924
Journalism & Mass Communication	1927
Education	1930
Social Work	1946
Public Affairs	1967
Veterinary Medicine	1979
Computer, Data & Information Sciences	2019

The University of Wisconsin–Madison, the flagship campus of theUniversity of Wisconsin System, is a large, four-year research university comprising twenty associated colleges and schools.^[17]In addition to undergraduate andgraduatedivisions in agriculture and life sciences, business, education, engineering,human ecology, journalism andmass communication, letters and science, music,nursing,pharmacy, andsocial welfare, the university also maintains graduate and professional schools inenvironmental studies, law,libraryandinformation studies, medicine andpublic health(School of Medicine and Public Health),public affairs, andveterinary medicine.

The four year, full-time undergraduate instructional program is classified by theCarnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teachingas "arts and science plus professions" with a high graduate coexistence.^[17]The largest university college, theCollege of Letters and Science, enrolls approximately half of the undergraduate student body and is made up of 38 departments and five professional schools^[57]that instruct students and carry out research in a wide variety of fields, such asastronomy, economics,geography, history,linguistics, andzoology. 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.^[17][58]

Academic rankings
National
ARWU[59]	23
Forbes[60]	39
U.S. News & World Report[61]	35
Washington Monthly[62]	11
WSJ/College Pulse[63]	58
Global
ARWU[59]	35
QS[64]	102
THE[65]	63
U.S. News & World Report[66]	63

National Program Rankings[67]
Program	Ranking
Audiology	16
Biological Sciences	17
Business	43
Chemistry	14
Clinical Psychology	5
Computer Science	13
Earth Sciences	20
Economics	14
Education	1
Engineering	27
English	24
Fine Arts	15
History	11
Law	36
Library & Information Studies	11
Mathematics	16
Medicine: Primary Care	26
Medicine: Research	35
Nursing: Doctor of Nursing Practice	66
Occupational Therapy	16
Pharmacy	9
Physical Therapy	26
Physician Assistant	27
Physics	21
Political Science	17
Psychology	9
Public Affairs	23
Public Health	29
Rehabilitation Counseling	1
Social Work	20
Sociology	7
Speech-Language Pathology	2
Statistics	13
Veterinary Medicine	7

UW–Madison's undergraduate program was ranked tied for 35th among national universities byU.S. News & World Reportfor 2024 and tied for 12th among public colleges and universities.^[68]Poets&Quants ranked theWisconsin School of Businessundergraduate program 22nd in the nation, up 10 positions from 2022, and top 10 among public universities.^[69]Other graduate schools ranked byUSNWRfor 2022 include theSchool of Medicine and Public Health, which was 33rd in research and 12th in primary care, theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison School of Educationtied for fourth, theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineeringtied for 26th, theUniversity of Wisconsin Law Schooltied for 29th, and theRobert M. La Follette School of Public Affairstied for 25th.^[68]

TheWall Street Journal/Times Higher EducationCollege Rankings 2022 ranked UW–Madison 58th among 801 U.S. colleges and universities based upon 15 individual performance indicators.^[70]UW–Madison was ranked eleventh in the nation and second among public universities by theWashington Monthly2023 National University Rankings.^[71]

In 2023, Money.com gave the University of Wisconsin–Madison 5 out of 5 stars among four-year colleges and universities in their Best Colleges in America list.^[72]

UW–Madison was ranked 35th among world universities in 2022 by theAcademic Ranking of World Universities, which assesses academic and research performance.^[73]In the 2024QS World University Rankings, UW–Madison was ranked 102nd in the world.^[74]The 2024Times Higher Education World University Rankingsplaced UW–Madison 63rd worldwide, based primarily on surveys administered to students, faculty, and recruiters.^[75]For 2023, UW–Madison was ranked 63rd byU.S. News & World Reportamong global universities.^[76]In 2023, UW–Madison was ranked 28th globally by theCenter for World University Rankings, which relies on outcome-based samplings, coupled with a Subject ranking in 227 subject categories.^[77]

TheCollege of Agricultural and Life Sciencesfulfills 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.^[78]It has 12 associated research centers including the Marshfield Agricultural Research Station and research centers in Arlington among other locations in Wisconsin.^[79]

TheWisconsin School of Businesswas founded in 1900, it has more than 46,000 living alumni across nearly 90 countries.^[80]The school has eleven centers and institutes focused on various business disciplines. TheWisconsin schoolineconomicswas central toinstitutionalismin the U.S. in the 20th century.^[81]

Although teacher education was offered at the university's founding in 1848, theSchool of Educationwas not founded until 1930.^[82]Today it is composed of 10 academic departments.

TheCollege of Engineeringcollege comprises eight academic departments with an enrollment of 4,500 undergraduate and 1,500 graduate students.^[83]

TheSchool of Human Ecologyhas departments in consumer science, design, civil society, and human development. Each major is based on a background of course work in the arts and humanities, the social sciences, and the biological, physical, and natural sciences. The focus of undergraduate professional programs may be in scientific, aesthetic, and/or business areas.^[84]The school has more than 2,400 undergraduates working towards majors, and 100 graduate students.

TheSchool of Journalism & Mass Communicationwas one of the first schools to grant a doctoral degree inmass communication, as well as among the first to introduce education in electronic editing and the offset press. Radio news started in the School beforeWorld War II, and by 1970 a radio-television news sequence was established.^[85]

TheUniversity of Wisconsin Law Schoolis guided by a "law in action" legal philosophy which emphasizes the role of the law in practice and society. It offers theJuris Doctor,Master of Laws, andDoctor of Juridical Sciencedegrees; Juris Doctor graduates of the law school receive admission to theWisconsin barwithout taking a traditionalbar examinationviadiploma privilege.^[86]

TheSchool of Medicine and Public Healthis one of only two medical schools in Wisconsin. The school is adjacent to theUW Health University Hospital, its primary affiliated teaching hospital, as well as the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research. Themedical schoolwas proposed in 1848 and a two-year basic science course began in 1907.^[87]

TheMead Witter School of Musicwas established in 1895. In 1939, the school created the first musical artist-in-residence position at any American university. The wind band program consists of numerous ensembles based on the musical ability of the musician.^[88]Students that are non-music majors can take courses with the School of Music, and private lessons are offered by the school through the Community Music Lessons program.^[89]

TheRobert M. La Follette School of Public Affairsoffersmaster's degreesinpublic affairsand international public affairs, joint graduate degrees with other departments, and undergraduate certificates in public policy and health policy.

The L&S Honors Program serves over 1300 students in theCollege of Letters and Science(the UW–Madison'sliberal arts college) with an enriched undergraduatecurriculum. 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.

UW–Madison was a founding member of theAssociation of American Universities.^[91]In fiscal year 2022, the school received $1.524 billion in research and development (R&D) funding, placing it eighth in the U.S. among institutions of higher education.^[18]Its research programs were fourth in the number of patents issued in 2010.^[92]

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is one of 33sea grant collegesin 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.^[93]It has been considered a major academic center forembryonic stem cellresearch ever since UW–Madison professorJames Thomsonbecame 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 instem cellresearch, helped in part by the funding of theWisconsin Alumni Research Foundationand promotion ofWiCell.^[94]

Its center for research oninternal combustion engines, called the Engine Research Center, has a five-year collaboration agreement with General Motors.^[95]It has also been the recipient of multimillion-dollar funding from the federal government.^[96]

The Department of Engineering Physics conducts research to advance the scientific and technical basis for magneticfusionenergy. They have over 20 current graduate students and recruit new students annually. Their research includes non-inductive startup techniques, investigation of ion gyro-scale turbulent instabilities and dynamics, understanding core-edge coupling, and development of diagnostic systems.^[97]The UW also hosts theHelically Symmetric Experiment(HSX), which is a modular coilstellarator.^[98]

In June 2013, it is reported that theUnited States National Institutes of Healthwould fund an $18.13 million study at the University of Wisconsin. The study will research lethal qualities of viruses such asEbola,West Nileandinfluenza. The goal of the study is to help find new drugs to fight off the most lethal pathogens.^[99]

In 2012, UW–Madison experiments on cats came under fire fromPeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animalswho claimed the animals were abused. In 2013, theNIHbriefly suspended the research's funding pending an agency investigation. The following year the university was fined more than $35,000 for several violations of theAnimal Welfare Act.Bill Maher,James Cromwelland 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.^{[100][101][102]}

The University of Wisconsin is a participant in theBig Ten Academic Alliance. The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) is the academic consortium of the universities in theBig Ten Conference. Students at participating schools are allowed "in-house" borrowing privileges at other schools' libraries.^[103]The BTAA uses collective purchasing and licensing, and has saved member institutions $19 million to date.^[104]Course sharing,^[105]professional developmentprograms,^[106]study abroadand international collaborations,^[107]and other initiatives are also part of the BTAA.

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.^[108]Notable past Fellows includeAnthony Doerr,Ann PackerandQuan Barry.^[109]

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 theMadison, Wisconsinarea 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.^[108][110]

The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing was founded in 1985 by the poetRonald Wallace, who taught at the University of Wisconsin's English department from 1972 to 2015.^[111]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.^[108]From 2008 to 2014, it offered the Carl Djerassi Distinguished Playwriting Fellowship in addition to fiction and poetry fellowships.^[109]

Fellowship applications are judged anonymously until finalists are chosen. However, "it is the work and the work alone that really matters," saysJesse Lee Kercheval, in a conversation with theAssociation of Writers and Writing Programs.^[112]

List of current and former Fellows ^[109]

Year	Fellows
1986–1987	Juanita Brunk Debra Spark
1987–1988	Mari Hatta Marly Swick
1988–1989	Ann Packer Lise Goett
1989–1990	Heather Aronson Adele Ne Jame
1990–1991	Michael Barrett Max Garland
1991–1992	Charles D'Ambrosio Karen Kovacik
1992–1993	Sara Corbett Lisa Rhoades
1993–1994	Aaron Anstett Rebecca Lee
1994–1995	Joel Brouwer Eileen Fitzgerald
1995–1996	Jon Loomis Nancy Reisman
1996–1997	Anne Caston Joseph Skibell
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	Quan Barry Anthony Doerr Rick Hilles Holiday Reinhorn Lysley Tenorio
2000–2001	Antoine Wilson Jennifer Vanderbes Erica Olsen Aimee Nezhukumatathil Blas Manuel De Luna Ryan G. van Cleave
2001–2002	Deborah Bernhardt Susanna Daniel Ha-yun Jung Erika Meitner Imad Rahman Mitch Raney
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	Danielle Evans Sean Hill Jennifer Key Laleh Khadivi Derek Mong April Wilder
2007–2008	Danielle Deulen Kevin A. Gonzalez Nick Lantz Shara Lessley Dan O'Brien Edward Porter Tim Scott
2008–2009	Traci Brimhall Andrew Milward Stuart Nadler Michael Weller Jill Osier Amanda Rea Emma Straub
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	Nicole Cullen Laura Eve Engel Pilar Gomez-Ibanez Mehdi Tavana Okasi Jacques J. Rancourt Emily Ruskovich Martin Zimmerman
2012–2013	Ari Banias Miriam Cohen Jaquira Diaz Sara Gelston Sarah Hulse Alyssa Knickerbocker Elaine Romero
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	Jordan Jacks Josh Kalscheur Karyna McGlynn Mika Taylor Mark Wagenaar
2016–2017	Derrick Austin Jamel Brinkley Natalie Eilbert Sarah Fuchs Marcela Fuentes Barrett Swanson
2017–2018	Oliver Baez Bendorf Leila Chatti Tia Clark Marta Evans
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

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.^[113]

Located inMadison, about a mile from thestate capitol, the main campus of the university is situated partially onthe isthmusbetweenLake MendotaandLake 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 suburbanUniversity of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, and the Department of Psychiatry & Clinics in the West Side research park. TheUniversity 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 architectsJ.T.W. JenningsandArthur Peabody. The hub of campus life is theMemorial Union. UW–Madison's campus has been ranked as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States byTravel + LeisureandCondé Nast Traveler.^[114][115]One unusual feature of the campus is the Babcock Hall dairy plant and store, a fully functional dairy well known for its ice cream.^[116][117]

As one of the icons on campus, Bascom Hall,^[118]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 thechancellorand vice chancellors. Bascom Hall is listed on theNational Register of Historic Placesas a contributing building within the Bascom Hill Historic District.^[119]

Flanking both sides of Bascom Hall are the two oldest surviving buildings on campus. Designed byJohn F. Raguein aFederal style, the oldest structure in the university,North Hall(built in 1851), was planned to be similar to the dormitories inAnn Arbor,Michigan.^[120]It is still in use as the home of the Department of Political Science. Its opposite twin, South Hall (built in 1855), originally served as the women's dormitory prior to the establishment of the Female College Building in 1871 (today the location of Chadbourne Hall).^[121]The administrative offices of the College of Letters and Science now occupy the building.

The Carillon Tower, erected in 1936, was designed byWarren LairdandPaul Philippe Cretso that thebalustradeechoes that on Bascom Hall.^[122]The carillon has 56 bronze bells, with the largest weighing 6,800 pounds.^[123]An automated system rings bells on the hour, playing songs such as "Varsity" and "On, Wisconsin!". East of the tower, lies a monument to theSaukleaderBlack Hawk, whose flight through the Madison area represented the last armed conflict between theUnited States Armyand native peoples in southern Wisconsin.^[124]

Several other notable architectural styles are represented in the historic core of the university. Following the 1884 fire that destroyed the original,MilwaukeearchitectHenry C. Kochdesigned the newScience Hall(built in 1888) in aRomanesque Revival style.^[125]The Education Building, originally designed to house the College of Engineering, features aBeaux-Arts style.^[126]Structures built in aNeoclassical styleinclude Birge Hall and theWisconsin Historical Society.^[127]Located at the foot of the hill, Music Hall was designed in 1878 by Madison architectDavid R. Jonesin aGothic Revivalstyle.

Van Hise Hall is home to most of the languages departments of the university^[128]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 thetallest educational buildingsin the world.^[129]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.^[130]

TheGeorge L. MosseHumanities Building, located on Library Mall, was built in the late 1960s in theBrutaliststyle. 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".^[131][132]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,^[133]in part because of water damage.^[134][135]

The University of Wisconsin–Madison has twostudent unions. The older,Memorial Union, was built in 1928 to honor American World War Iveterans. Also known as the Union or the Terrace, it has gained a reputation as one of the most beautifulstudent centerson a university campus. Located on the shore ofLake 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 theRathskeller, a German pub adjacent to the lake terrace. Political debates andbackgammonandsheepsheadgames 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.^[136]

Memorial Union is home to many arts venues, including several art galleries, the Wisconsin Union Theater, and Wheelhouse Studios-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 advisoryreferendumtorenovateand expand Memorial Union was approved by the student body in 2006, and the university completed the renovation in 2017.^[137]

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 certifiedLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design(LEED) gold building.^[138]The building contains several dining options, an art gallery, a movie theater, a climbing wall, a bowling alley, event spaces, and a hotel.^[139][140]

TheWisconsin Unionalso 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 theWisconsin Hoofers, a club that organizes outdoor recreational activities.^[141]

Henry Mall is a 50-foot wide and 575-foot long landscaped quadrangle that was designed by architects Warren Laird and Paul Cret and constructed between 1903 and 1961.^[142]The mall contains buildings that represent Neoclassical, Beaux-Arts,Italian Renaissance Revival, andModern Movementstyles of architecture.^[142]Laird and Cret were hired to draw up a master plan for future construction at the campus, with the idea of creating a more unified and aesthetically pleasing area. The departments around the Henry Mall area were conceived to be "technical" and geographically close to the science departments and the university farm.^[142]

The Mall features several notable buildings, including Agriculture Hall, the Agronomy Building, theAgricultural Engineering Building, and theAgricultural Chemistry Building. The Mall is also home to several artworks, including the Hoard statue byGutzon Borglum, which honorsWilliam Dempster Hoard, the publisher of Hoard's Dairyman magazine.^[142][143]The Henry Boulder, a chunk of gneiss on the mall with a plaque, is dedicated to DeanWilliam Arnon Henry, the mall's namesake, who helped establish the College of Agriculture.^[142]Other buildings in the area include the Stovall Lab of Hygiene and the Genetics Building.^[144][145]The Henry Mall Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.^[142]

The University of Wisconsin–Madison has the 12th largest research library collection in North America.^[146]More than 30 professional and special-purpose libraries serve the campus.^[147]The campus library collections include more than 11 million volumes representing human inquiry through all of history.^[146]In addition, the collections comprised more than 103,844 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.^[148]Over 1 million volumes are circulated to library users every year.^[149]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.^[150]It also houses a periodical collection, domestic and foreign newspapers, Special Collections,^[151]the Mills Music Library,^[152]and the UW Digital Collections Center.^[153]The UW–Madison Libraries are members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance.^[154]

Steenbock Memorial Library is the primary science library and supports the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Engineering, the School of Veterinary Medicine, UW–Extension and Cooperative Extension, and the College of Liberal Arts and Science Departments of Botany, Chemistry, Computer Science, Statistics, and Zoology.^[155]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 professorHarry Steenbock(1886–1967), who developed an inexpensive method of enriching foods with vitamin D in the 1920s. This library is open to the public. After the closure of the Wendt Library for Engineering,^[156]Steenbock Library was designated a Patent and Trademark Depository Library, and 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.

Undergraduates can find many of the resources they need at College Library in Helen C. White Hall.^[157]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.^[158]The library also has a coffee shop, the Open Book Café.^[159]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).

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.^[160]

The LGBT Student Center, located in theRed Gym, functions as a library for queer-themed fiction and non-fiction and provides training and resources for the entire campus.^[161][162]

The Kohler Art Library is located in the Conrad A. Elvehjem Building across from theChazen Museum of Artand 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.^[163]A feature of the library is the Artists' Book Collection, which contains over 1,000 artists' books from 175 presses and artists.^[163]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.^[164]The Kohler Art Library is open to the public.

UW–Madison Libraries is maintain their own online catalog.^[165]It includes bibliographic records for books, periodicals, audiovisual materials, maps, music scores, microforms, and computer databases owned by over 30 campus libraries, as well as records for items part of the University of Wisconsin System Libraries. 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 theWorld Wide Web.

TheGeology Museumfeatures rocks, minerals, and fossils from around the world. Highlights include a blacklight room, a walk-through cave, and a fragment of theBarringer meteorite. Some noteworthy fossils include the first dinosaur skeleton assembled in Wisconsin (anEdmontosaurus), ashark(Squalicorax) and a floating colony ofsea lilies(Uintacrinus), both from theCretaceouschalk ofKansas, and the BoazMastodon, a found on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin in 1897.^[166]

TheChazen 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.^[167]

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 theGalápagos 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.^[168]

TheL. R. Ingersoll Physics Museumcontains a range of exhibits demonstratingclassicalandmodern 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.^[169]

UW–Madison claims more distinct archaeological sites than on any other university campus.^[170]The campus contains four clusters ofeffigy moundslocated 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.^[171][172]TheLakeshore Nature Preserve Committeeis endeavoring to "...safeguard beloved cultural landscapes," through aggressive enforcement of measures for the preservation of such zones and advocating for broader buffers where possible.^[173]

The University of Wisconsin–Madison sports teams participate in theNCAA'sDivision I-A. With the exception of lightweightWisconsin Badgers Crew, the university's athletic programs compete in theBig Ten Conference. The women'shockeyprogram competes in theWestern Collegiate Hockey Association(WCHA), while the men's and women's crew programs compete in theEastern Association of Rowing CollegesandEastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges, respectively. The school'sfight songis "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.^[174]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 straightIntercollegiate Rowing Associationnational crown. In 2008, both men's and women's crew teams claimed national titles.^[175]

The Badgers playcollege footballatCamp Randall Stadium. The head coach isLuke Fickell. Before the fourth quarter of every game at Camp Randall, the crowd jumps around toHouse of Pain's song "Jump Around". After every game, theUniversity of Wisconsin Marching Bandplays popular songs during theFifth Quarter.^{[176][177][178]}The Badgers won threeRose BowlChampionships underBarry Alvarezin 1994, 1999, and 2000. In 2006,Bret Bielemaled the Badgers to a school record (at that time) 11-win regular season and to 12 overall wins, defeatingArkansasin theCapital One Bowl. CoachPaul Chrystwould 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.^[179]The Badgers lost toTCUin the2011 Rose BowlChampionship on January 1, 2011. In the 2011 season, the Badgers defended the B1G championship title to go to the2012 Rose BowlChampionship. The Badgers lost to Oregon 45–38 in the highest-scoring Rose Bowl of all time.^[180]The Badgers made it to the2013 Rose Bowlfor 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.^[181]The Badgers lost to Stanford 14–20 for Barry Alvarez's first Rose Bowl loss, he had previously won it three times.^[182]

The Badgers have made 19 consecutive appearances (1999–2017) in theNCAA Tournament, having played in the National Championship game in 2015, makingFinal Fourvisits in 2000 and 2014, anElite Eightappearance in 2005, andSweet Sixteenappearances in 2003, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2016, and 2017.^[183]Bo Ryanwas the head coach from 2001 to 2015.Greg Gardis the current head coach. TheBadgersplay at theKohl Center, where the student fans are known asAreaRED. In the 2006–2007 season, the Badgers attained their highest AP ranking in school history (#1 Feb 19–25), garnering 35 first-place votes.^[184]The Badgers earned their only NCAA National Championship in 1941.

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 theDane County Coliseumuntil moving to theKohl 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 theUniversity 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.^[185]

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 Sauercoached 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.^[186]Eaves' 2010 squad advanced to the national championship game during the Badgers' 11th appearance in the men'sFrozen Fourbefore bowing toBoston 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 byMark 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.^[187]The women's team repeated as national champions in 2007 with a victory over theUniversity of Minnesota-Duluthand in 2009 with a victory overMercyhurst. The team set the NCAA women's hockey attendance record on February 15, 2014, in a game against Minnesota.^[188]

The Wisconsin Badgers' most notable rivalry within the Big Ten is with theMinnesota Golden Gophers, which is themost-played rivalryin Division I-A football.^{[189][190][191]}In their annualcollege footballgame, the teams compete forPaul Bunyan's Axe. The two universities also compete in theBorder Battle, a year-long athletic competition in which each team's wins earn points for their university. Wisconsin's other prominent rivalries in football are with theIowa HawkeyesandNebraska Cornhuskers.

TheI-94 rivalrybetween Wisconsin men's basketball and the in-stateMarquette Golden Eagleshas been played annually since 1958. Other basketball rivalries include theMichigan State SpartansandIllinois Fighting Illiniwithin the Big Ten.

The Wisconsin men's and women's hockey teams' most recognized rivals areMinnesotaand theNorth Dakota Fighting Hawks. Other rivals include theDenver Pioneers,Colorado College Tigers,Michigan Tech Huskies,Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs, andSt. Cloud State Huskies.

The school mascot is ananthropomorphizedbadgernamedBuckywho 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 unrulybadgerwho 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.^[192]

The team's nickname originates from thestate 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.^[193][194]

In 2009, Fulton Market Films produced the documentaryBeing Buckywhich followed the lives of seven Wisconsin students who take on the role of Bucky Badger.^[195]Being Buckywon "Best Documentary Film" at theWisconsin Film Festivaland went on to play in local Wisconsin movie theaters.^[196]

Student body composition as of May 2, 2022

Race and ethnicity[197]	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

The university runs over twenty residence halls, including learning communities and affinity communities. These are spread across two distinct neighborhoods: Lakeshore and Southeast. The largest residence hall has a capacity of 1,250 students, while the smallest is home to 30 residents.^[198]Nestled against Lake Mendota, the Lakeshore Neighborhood is home to thirteen residence halls and four dining markets. The neighborhood is close to Ebling and Steenbock Libraries and the Engineering campus. The Southeast Neighborhood, near downtown Madison, is home to eight residence halls and two dining markets.^[199]The Lakeshore and Southeast neighborhoods are considered to be rivals owing to their contrasting lifestyles. Southeast dorms are considered to be more social, while Lakeshore dorms tend to be more quiet.^[200]In winter, the two sides meet at Bascom Hill for a snowball fight that draws hundreds of students known as the "Battle for Bascom".^[201]

Barnard Residence Hall, the oldest functioning residential building on campus, opened its doors in the fall of 1913 as the second women's dormitory. The building features an Italian Renaissance Revival style and owes its namesake to former ChancellorHenry Barnard, who, ironically, opposed student housing on campus believing it to be a drain on the institution's income.^[202]Alongside neighboring Chadbourne Residence Hall, Barnard Hall is part of the Chadbourne Residential College, a building-wide living-learning community.^[203]Barnard Residence Hall is connected to Rheta's Market, a buffet-style dining hall.^[204]

On May 22, 2012, theHo-Chunk Nation of Wisconsinpassed 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.Teejopmeans "Four Lakes" in the Ho-Chunk language, and Native Americans have used this word to describe the Madison area for thousands of years.^[205]The building and its grounds contain imagery of the mounds and lakes in the area and include a fire circle that overlooks Lake Mendota. Dejope Hall pays tribute to its name with the Four Lakes Market, which features an authentic canoe.^[206]

UW–Madison is the only university in the country with two daily student newspapers:^{[207][208][209][210]}The Daily Cardinal, founded in 1892 andThe Badger Herald, founded in 1969.The Onionwas founded in 1988 by two UW–Madison juniors, and was published in Madison before moving to New York City in 2001.^[211]It is also the home ofThe Madison Misnomer, an undergraduate comedy newspaper, founded in 2007.^[212]

UW–Madison is also home to one of only two nationally distributed undergraduate international studies journals in the country.^[213]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.

The University of Wisconsin–Madison campus radio station isWSUM91.7 FM, "The Snake on the Lake".^[214]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 StatesFederal Communications Commission(FCC). The current radio station, WSUM, began in 1997 in awebcastonly 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 overFMairwaves at 91.7 from its tower inMontrose, 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 uniquepublic service announcements.^[215]

Over 800 student organizations or clubs are registered with the Center for Leadership and Involvement (CFLI) at UW–Madison each year.^[216]

Student organizations at the school include chapters of the fraternitiesAcacia,^[217]Alpha Chi Omega,^[218]Alpha Delta Phi,^[219]Alpha Gamma Rho,^[220]Delta Chi,^[221]Chi Psi, andSigma Alpha.^[222]Alpha Chi Sigmawas founded at the university in 1902.

Religious student organizations include affiliates of theChristianorganizationsAthletes in Action,^[223]Chi Alpha Campus Ministries,^[224]and theChristian Legal Society.^[225]Pres House^[226]is a progressive student organization loosely associated with thePCUSAthat 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.^[227]

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 theUW Hybrid Vehicle TeamandBadgerloop.^[228]

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.

Over its history, UW–Madison alumni, faculty, or former faculty have distinguished themselves in a wide variety of fields, and have been awarded 20 Nobel Prizes and 41 Pulitzer Prizes.^[229]UW–Madison graduates have been recipients of 32Rhodes Scholarships,^[230]22Marshall Scholarships,^[231]25Truman Scholarships,^[232]6Churchill Scholarships,^[233]and 1Mitchell Scholarship.^[234]The university has produced 828Fulbright Scholars^[235]and 20MacArthur Fellows.^[236]

UW–Madison alumni have occupied several prominent offices in theUnited States government, includingVice President of the United States(Dick Cheney);Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States(Wiley Rutledge, BA);United States Secretary of State(Lawrence Eagleburger, BA, MA);United States Secretary of Health and Human Services(Wilbur J. Cohen, BA, andTommy Thompson, BA, JD);United States Secretary of the Interior(Julius Albert Krug, BA, andWilliam Freeman Vilas, BA);United States Secretary of Agriculture(Clayton Yeutter);United States Postmaster General(John A. Gronouski, BA, MA, PhD, and William Freeman Vilas, BA); numerous federal judges, governors, and members of theUnited States Congress(including7United States Representativesand1United States Senatorcurrently serving).

Some 843 UW–Madison alumni serve as CEOs, and nearly 16,000 hold an executive management position.^[229]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.^[237]Notable CEOs who have attended UW–Madison includeJohn Rowe(Exelon),Thomas J. Falk(Kimberly-Clark),Carol Bartz(Yahoo!),David J. Lesar(Halliburton),Kelly Kahl(CBS Entertainment),Keith Nosbusch(Rockwell Automation),Lee Raymond(Exxon Mobil),Tom Kingsbury(Burlington Stores), andJudith Faulkner(Epic Systems).

Foreign alumni include thePresident of Bangladesh2002–2009 (Iajuddin Ahmed, MS, PhD); thePrime Minister of Iraq(Sa'dun Hammadi, PhD); thePrime Minister of Bhutan2004–2005 (Yeshey Zimba, MA); thePrime Minister of SingaporeandMinister of Finance(Lawrence Wong, BS); theSecretary of Finance and Public CreditofMexico1975–1976 (Mario Ramón Beteta) and 2018–2019 (Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías, PhD); thePresident of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany1971–1983 (Ernst Benda); theMinister of FinanceofSomalia2017–2022 (Abdirahman Duale Beyle, PhD); theMinister of Foreign Affairs of Chile2006–2009 (Alejandro Foxley, PhD); theMinister of Foreign Affairs of Tunisia2010–2011 (Kamel Morjane); theMinister of EducationofTaiwan2013–2014 (Huang Pi-twan, PhD).

UW–Madison alumni have made significant contributions to the field ofcomputer science, includingEdison MedalrecipientHoward H. Aiken, who envisioned the conceptual design behindIBM'sHarvard Mark I,^[238]andTuring AwardLaureatePat Hanrahan(BS, PhD).^[239]Gene Amdahl(MS, PhD) formulatedAmdahl's law, whileWilli A. Kalender(MS, PhD) inventedspiral scan computed tomography. TheMacintosh IIcomputer was co-invented in 1987 byMichael Dhuey, who also designed the power supply for the originaliPodin 2001.^[240]

Alumni have won a total of 10Academy Awards. There have been three winners of theOscar for Best Picture:Nichole Rocklinfor her work onSpotlight(2016),Tom Rosenberg(BA) for his work onMillion Dollar Baby(2004), andWalter Mirisch(BA) for his work onIn the Heat of the Night(1967). Pat Hanrahan (BS, PhD) has won three Oscars for his work intechnical achievement(2014, 2004, 1993).Errol Morris(BA) won theBest Documentary OscarforThe Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert McNamara(2004).Marshall Brickmanwon theBest Screenplay Oscarfor his work onAnnie Hall(1978).Frederic Marchwon twoBest Actor OscarsforThe Best Years of Our Lives(1946) andDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1932).^[241]

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.^[242]

• Notable University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni include:
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  John Muir- naturalist, founder of the Sierra Club, instrumental in preserving Yosemite National Park
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  Frank Lloyd Wright- architect known for designing the Guggenheim Museumand Fallingwateramong other works
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  Elmer McCollum- biochemist, discoverer of vitamins A, B, and D
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  Charles Lindbergh- aviator and military officer, remembered for the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean
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  John Bardeen- physicist, only two-time recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physicsin 1956 and 1972
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  William C. Campbell- biologistand parasitologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicinein 2015
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  Laurel Clark- medical doctor and NASA astronaut, flew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
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  Jim Lovell- NASA astronaut, one of the first humans to fly to and orbit the Moon, commanded Apollo 13
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  Robert M. La Follette- politician and lawyer, Progressive Eraleader, former Congressman, Senator, 20th Governor of Wisconsinand Presidential candidate
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  Gaylord Nelson- environmentalist and politician, founder of Earth Day, 35th Governorof and later United States Senatorfrom Wisconsin
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  Dick Cheney- politician and businessman, 46th Vice President of the United States
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  Herb Kohl- businessman and politician, United States Senatorfrom Wisconsin, former owner of the Milwaukee Bucks
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  Tammy Baldwin- politician and lawyer, United States Senatorfrom Wisconsin, first openly LGBT person elected to the United States Senate
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  Linda Thomas-Greenfield- diplomat, United States ambassador to the United Nations
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  Chuck Robb- former governorand United States Senatorfrom Virginia, co-chair of the 2004 Iraq Intelligence Commission
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  Joyce Carol Oates- National Book Award-winning author of plays, poetry, short stories, and nonfiction
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  Manu Raju- television journalist, Senior CongressionalCorrespondent for CNN
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  Greta Van Susteren- commentator, lawyer, and television news anchor for CNN, Fox News, and NBC News
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  Joan Cusack- actor, Academy Awardand Golden Globenominee
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  Jeffrey Sprecher- chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, founder and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange
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  Virgil Abloh- fashion designerand founder of Off-White

Current UW–Madison faculty and researchers include 68American Academy of Arts and SciencesFellows, 112Guggenheim Fellows, 5MacArthur Fellows, 6 members of theNational Academy of Education, 20 members of theNational Academy of Engineering, 5 members of theAmerican Philosophical Society, 2 recipients of theAmerican Psychological FoundationGold Medal, 13 members of theNational Academy of Medicine, 2National Academy of Public AdministrationFellows, 39 members of theNational Academy of Sciences, 11National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows, 4National Humanities Center Fellows, and 1Woodrow Wilson CenterFellow.^[243]

Faculty members have been responsible for numerous scientific advances at UW–Madison, including thesingle-grain experimentbyStephen Babcock,^[244]the discovery of vitaminsAandBbyElmer McCollumandMarguerite Davis,^[245]the development of the anticoagulant medicationwarfarinbyKarl Paul Link,^[246]the first chemical synthesis of a gene byHar Gobind Khorana,^[247]the discovery of theretroviralenzymereverse transcriptasebyHoward Temin,^[248]and the first synthesis ofhuman embryonic stem cellsbyJames Thomson.^[24]UW–Madison professorAldo Leopoldplayed an important role in the development of modernenvironmental scienceandconservationism,^[249][250]while professorGloria Ladson-Billingsformulated the framework ofculturally relevant pedagogy.^[251]UW–Madison is also known for its contributions to the field ofglaciology.Thwaites Glacier, infamously a part of theWest Antarctic Ice Sheet's so-called "weak underbelly", was posthumously named after itsprofessor emeritusFredrik T. Thwaites (1883–1961). Other Antarctic features named after UW–Madison glaciologists includeBlack Glacier(after professor Robert F. Black), as well asMount Bentleyand theBentley Subglacial Trench, both named after professorCharles R. Bentley.^[252]

• Notable University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty include:
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  Stephen Moulton Babcock
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  Charles R. Van Hise
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  Joseph Erlanger
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  John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
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  Joshua Lederberg
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  Eugene Wigner
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  Howard Martin Temin
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  Paul S. Reinsch
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  Stanislaw Ulam
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  Oliver Smithies
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  Har Gobind Khorana
• 
  James Thomson

• Badgerloop– a SpaceX Hyperloop Competition Team
• MadFiber Ice Cream– created by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
• TRNSYS–simulationprogramforrenewable energydeveloped at UW–M
• UW Hybrid Vehicle Team
• Weinert Centerfor Entrepreneurship
• World Cocoa Foundation(Partnership)

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