Science, enrolls approximately half of the undergraduate student body and is made up of thirty-nine departments and five professional schools[32] that instruct students and carry out research in a wide variety of fields, such as astronomy, economics, geography, history, ling

1909 William Purdy and Paul Beck wrote On, Wisconsin the UW–Madison athletic fight song
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 UW scientist, Elmer V. McCollum
1916 Vitamin B discovered by McCollum
1919 Radio station 9XM founded on campus (Now WHA (970 AM), it is the oldest continually operating radio station in the United States)
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
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
1940–1951 Warfarin (Coumadin) developed at UW. Named after Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
1969 The Badger Herald was founded as a conservative student paper
1970 Sterling Hall bombing
1984 University Research Park founded to encourage technology transfer between university and businesses
1988 The Onion founded by two UW–Madison students, Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson
1998 UW–Madison's James Thomson (cell biologist) first isolated and cultured human embryonic stem cells
2011 Wisconsin defeats Michigan State to win the first ever Big Ten Football Championship Game.
Academics[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.[10] 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; admissions are characterized as "more selective, lower transfer-in."[10] The largest university college, the College of Letters and Science, enrolls approximately half of the undergraduate student body and is made up of thirty-nine departments and five professional schools[32] 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.[10][33]
Rankings[edit]
University rankings
National
ARWU[34]    17
Forbes[35]    68
U.S. News & World Report[36]    41
Washington Monthly[37]    18
Global
ARWU[38]    19
QS[39]    38
Times[40]    31
International[edit]
In the 2011, QS World University Rankings it was ranked 41st in the world and received five excellence stars.[41] It was ranked 17th among world universities and 15th among universities in the Americas in Shanghai Jiao Tong University's 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities, which assesses academic and research performance.[42] In the G-factor International University Ranking of 2006, which is a re-analysis of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University data, the UW–Madison was listed 13th.[43] The Times Higher Education Supplement placed it 27th worldwide, based primarily on surveys administered to students, faculty, and recruiters.[44] Additionally, the professional ranking of world universities from École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, based in part on the number of senior managerial positions occupied by alumni, placed UW–Madison 35th in the world.[45]