University of Wisconsin | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-05

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison


00:03:09 1 History
00:05:13 1.1 The Wisconsin Idea
00:06:14 1.2 World War II
00:06:34 1.3 Expansion
00:07:15 1.4 Student activism
00:08:56 1.5 Timeline of notable events
00:11:45 2 Academics
00:13:12 2.1 Rankings
00:13:20 2.1.1 International
00:14:06 2.1.2 National
00:15:25 2.2 Research
00:17:41 2.2.1 Big Ten Academic Alliance
00:18:34 2.3 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
00:21:08 2.4 Letters &amp; Science Honors Program
00:21:38 2.5 WISCIENCE
00:22:02 3 Campus
00:23:13 3.1 Bascom Hall
00:23:50 3.2 Music Hall
00:24:41 3.3 George L. Mosse Humanities Building
00:25:17 3.4 Van Hise Hall
00:26:06 3.5 Grainger Hall
00:26:55 3.6 The Wisconsin Union
00:28:53 3.7 Dejope Hall
00:29:56 3.8 DeLuca Biochemistry Building
00:30:24 4 Libraries
00:34:21 5 Museums
00:35:43 6 Effigy mounds
00:36:36 7 Athletics
00:37:51 7.1 Football
00:39:28 7.2 Men's basketball
00:40:26 7.3 Women's basketball
00:40:35 7.4 Women's ice hockey
00:40:43 7.5 Ice hockey
00:42:57 7.6 Rivalries
00:43:50 7.7 Mascot
00:45:23 8 Student life
00:45:41 8.1 Media
00:45:49 8.1.1 Student publications
00:46:45 8.1.2 Campus radio
00:48:04 8.2 Organizations
00:48:58 8.3 MTV's iCollege Life/i
00:49:38 9 Notable alumni and people
00:50:09 10 See also



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The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, regionally as UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public 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. The 933-acre (378 ha) main campus, located on the shores of Lake Mendota, includes four National Historic Landmarks. The University also owns and operates a historic 1,200-acre (486 ha) arboretum established in 1932, located 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the main campus.UW–Madison is organized into 20 schools and colleges, which enrolled 30,361 undergraduate and 14,052 graduate students in 2018. Its comprehensive academic program offers 136 undergraduate majors, along with 148 master's degree programs and 120 doctoral programs. A major contributor to Wisconsin's economy, the University is the largest employer in the state, with over 21,600 faculty and staff.The UW is one of America's Public Ivy universities, which refers to top public universities in the United States capable of providing a collegiate experience comparable with the Ivy League. UW–Madison is also categorized as a Doctoral University with the Highest Research Activity in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. In 2012, it had research expenditures of more than $1.1 billion, the third highest among universities in the country. Wisconsin is a founding member of the Association of American Universities. As of October 2018, 25 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.Among the scientific advances made at UW–Madison are the single-grain experiment (which marked the birth of modern nutrition science), 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 o ...