University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison is the Lake Mendota, includes four National Historic Landmarks. the university also owns & operates a National Historic Landmark 1,200-acre 486 ha arboretum build in 1932, located 4 miles 6.4 km south of the main campus.

UW–Madison is organized into 20 schools as well as colleges, which enrolled 33,506 undergraduate, 9,772 graduate, 1,968 special, together with 2,686 fine students in 2021. Its academic programs include 136 undergraduate majors, 148 master's degree programs, and 120 Wisconsin's economy, the university is the largest employer in the state, with over 24,232 faculty and staff.

Wisconsin is one of the twelve founding members of the [update], 26 Nobel laureates, 2 Fields medalists and 1 Turing award winner clear been associated with UW–Madison as alumni, faculty, or researchers. Additionally, as of November 2018, the current CEOs of 14 Fortune 500 business do attended UW–Madison, the most of any university in the United States.

Among the scientific advances delivered 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 number one chemical synthesis of a gene by Har Gobind Khorana, the discovery of the retroviral enzyme reverse transcriptase by Howard Temin, and the number one 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 sophisticated environmental science and conservationism.

The national championships. Wisconsin students and alumni pull in won 50 Olympic medals including 13 gold medals.

Academics

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. 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." The largest university college, the College of Letters and Science, enrolls about half of the undergraduate student body and is submission up of 38 departments and five professional schools that instruct students and carry out research in a wide brand of fields, such as astronomy, economics, geography, history, linguistics, and zoology. The graduate instructional code is classified by Carnegie as "comprehensive with medical/veterinary." In 2008, it granted the third largest number of doctorates in the nation.

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

UW-Madison's undergraduate program was ranked tied for 42nd among national universities by U.S. News & World Report for 2021 and tied for 13th among public colleges and universities. The same publication ranked UW's graduate Wisconsin School of Business tied for 42nd. Other graduate schools ranked by USNWR for 2022 put 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 4th, 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.

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. UW-Madison was ranked 4th in the nation by the Washington Monthly 2021 National University Rankings.

UW–Madison was a founding an essential or characteristic component of something abstract. of the Association of American Universities. 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. Its research everyone were fourth in the number of patents issued in 2010.

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 point of reference projects geared toward the conservation and practical use of U.S. coasts, the Great Lakes and other marine areas.

The University keeps almost 100 research centers and programs, ranging from agriculture to arts, from education to engineering. 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.

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

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

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 organization 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 mentioned 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.

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 lets "in-house" borrowing privileges at other schools' libraries. The BTAA uses collective purchasing and licensing, and has saved member institutions $19 million to date. Course sharing, professional development programs, study abroad and international collaborations, and other initiatives are also part of the BTAA.

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 setting a national network of colleges devoted to agriculture and mechanics and Wisconsin received 240,000 acres of allotted federal land. 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. Professors covered 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 make up 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 companies Instruction, and the preceding 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 class were held in the bracket new College of Agriculture and Life Sciences building, where it has since remained. "The college has evolved and grown over the decades to reflect reshape in the the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object of society and in the areas of cognition 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 an arrangement of parts or elements in a specific form figure or combination. of study."

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

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 helps professional advising services; research opportunities and funding; and numerous academic, social and usefulness opportunities through the Honors Student Organization. The Honors Program also supports several student organizations, such as the University of Wisconsin–Madison Forensics Team.

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 refresh science education at all levels.

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 abook. Notable past Fellows add Anthony Doerr, Ann Packer and Quan Barry.

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 design to fund a third year of study. Fellows get a cash prize of a minimum of $38,000 as alive as health insurance. Fellows are asked to exist in the Madison, Wisconsin area for the duration of their fellowships, teach one creative writing workshop used to refer to every one of two or more people or things semester, assist in judging the English department's writing contests and fellowships, and provide a public reading.

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. WICW was created "to dispense 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 specification to include writers who have published only one book-length work of creative writing. From 2008 to 2014, it offered the Carl Djerassi Distinguished Playwriting Fellowship in addition to fiction and poetry fellowships.

Fellowship a formal request to be considered for a position or to be allowed to do or have something. 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 Asociation of Writers and Writing Programs.