University of Wisconsin

The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also accepted as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, "UW", or regionally as, UW–Madison, or artlessly Madison) is a accessible analysis university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded if Wisconsin able statehood in 1848, UW–Madison is the official accompaniment university of Wisconsin, and the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It was the aboriginal accessible university accustomed in Wisconsin and charcoal the oldest and better accessible university in the state. It became a land-grant academy in 1866. The 933-acre (378 ha) capital campus includes four Civic Historic Landmarks.

UW–Madison is organized into 20 schools and colleges, which enrolled 29,302 undergraduate, 9,445 graduate, and 2,459 able acceptance and accepted 6,659 bachelor's, 3,493 alum and able degrees in 2013-2014. The University employs over 21,796 adroitness and staff. Its absolute bookish diplomacy offers 136 undergraduate majors, forth with 148 master's amount programs and 120 doctoral programs.

The UW is one of America's Accessible Ivy universities, which refers to top accessible universities in the United States able of accouterment a bookish acquaintance commensurable with the Ivy League. UW–Madison is aswell categorized as an RU/VH Analysis University (very top analysis activity) in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. In 2012, it had analysis expenditures of added than $1.1 billion, the third able a part of universities in the country.Wisconsin is a founding affiliate of the Association of American Universities.
The Wisconsin Badgers attempt in 25 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA's Division I Big Ten Conference and accept won 28 civic championships.

History
Bascom Anteroom blaze that destroyed the arch in 1916
Bascom anteroom at dusk

The university had its official ancestry if the Wisconsin Territorial Assembly in its 1838 affair anesthetized a law accumulation a "University of the Territory of Wisconsin", and a baronial Lath of Visitors was appointed. However, this physique (the antecedent of the U.W. lath of regents) never in fact able annihilation afore Wisconsin was congenital as a accompaniment in 1848. The Wisconsin Constitution provided for "the enactment of a accompaniment university, at or abreast the bench of accompaniment government..." and directed by the accompaniment assembly to be absolute by a lath of regents and administered by a Chancellor. On July 26, 1846, Nelson Dewey, Wisconsin's aboriginal governor, active the act that formally created the University of Wisconsin. John H. Lathrop became the university's aboriginal chancellor, in the abatement of 1849. With John W. Sterling as the university's aboriginal assistant (mathematics), the aboriginal chic of 17 acceptance met at Madison Female Academy on February 5, 1849. A abiding campus website was anon selected: an breadth of 50 acreage (20.2 ha) "bounded arctic by Fourth lake, east by a artery to be opened at appropriate angles with King street,south by Mineral Point Alley (University Avenue), and west by a carriage-way from said alley to the lake." The regents' architecture diplomacy alleged for a "main architecture against appear the Capitol, three belief high, baffled by an anchor for ample observations." This building, University Hall, now accepted as Bascom Hall, was assuredly completed in 1859. On October 10, 1916, a blaze destroyed the building's dome, which was never replaced. Arctic Hall, complete in 1851, was in fact the aboriginal architecture on campus. In 1854, Levi Booth and Charles T. Wakeley became the aboriginal graduates of the university, and in 1892 the university awarded its aboriginal PhD to approaching university admiral Charles R. Van Hise.

Research, teaching, and account at the UW is afflicted by a attitude accepted as "the Wisconsin Idea," aboriginal articulate by UW–Madison Admiral Charles Van Hise in 1904, if he declared "I shall never be agreeable until the beneficent access of the University alcove every home in the state." The Wisconsin Idea holds that the boundaries of the university should be the boundaries of the state, and that the analysis conducted at UW–Madison should be activated to break problems and advance health, superior of life, the environment, and agronomics for all citizens of the state. The Wisconsin Idea permeates the university’s plan and helps coin abutting alive relationships a part of university adroitness and students, and the state's industries and government. Based in Wisconsin's autonomous history, the Wisconsin Idea continues to affect the plan of the faculty, staff, and acceptance who aim to break real-world problems by alive calm beyond disciplines and demographics.

In the backward 1960s and aboriginal 1970s, UW–Madison was annoyed by a alternation of apprentice protests, and by the use of force by authorities in response, assiduously accurate in the blur The War at Home. The aboriginal above demonstrations protested the attendance on campus of recruiters for the Dow Chemical Company, which supplied the armament acclimated in the Vietnam War. Authorities acclimated force to annihilate the disturbance. The attempt was accurate in the book, They Marched into Sunlight, as able-bodied as the PBS documentary Two Days in October.A part of the acceptance afflicted in the beef was accepted Madison ambassador Paul Soglin.
Another ambition of beef was the Army Mathematics Analysis Center (AMRC) in Sterling Hall, which was aswell home of the physics department. The apprentice newspaper, The Daily Cardinal, appear a alternation of analytic online writing advertence that AMRC was advancing analysis anon pursuant to US Administration of Defense requests, and admiring of aggressive operations in Vietnam. AMRC became a allurement for demonstrations, in which protesters chanted "U.S. out of Vietnam! Smash Army Math!"

On August 24, 1970, abreast 3:40 am, a bomb exploded next to Sterling Hall, aimed at antibacterial the Army Math Analysis Center.Despite the backward hour, a column doctoral physics researcher, Robert Fassnacht, was in the lab and was dead in the explosion. The physics administration was acutely damaged, while the advised target, the AMRC, was hardly affected. Karleton Armstrong, Dwight Armstrong, and David Fine were begin amenable for the blast. Leo Burt was articular as a suspect, but was never apprehended or tried.

While the apprentice physique has afford abundant of its abolitionist image, the campus is still accepted for its accelerating politics.[citation needed] In February 2011, bags of acceptance marched and active the Wisconsin Accompaniment Capitol during the 2011 Wisconsin protests.

Academics
"Sifting and winnowing" applique on Bascom Hall, UW–Madison accolade to bookish freedom
The University of Wisconsin–Madison, the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System, is a large, four-year analysis university absolute twenty associated colleges and schools. In accession to undergraduate and alum capacity in agronomics and activity sciences, business, education, engineering, animal ecology, journalism and accumulation communication, belletrist and science, music, nursing, pharmacy, and amusing welfare, the university aswell maintains alum and able schools in ecology studies, law, library and advice studies, anesthetic and accessible bloom (School of Anesthetic and Accessible Health), accessible affairs, and veterinary medicine.

The four year, full-time undergraduate advisory diplomacy is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as "arts and science additional professions" with a top alum coexistence; admissions are characterized as "more selective, lower transfer-in." The better university college, the Academy of Belletrist and Science, enrolls about bisected of the undergraduate apprentice physique and is fabricated up of thirty-nine departments and 5 able schoolsthat acquaint acceptance and backpack out analysis in a advanced array of fields, such as astronomy, economics, geography, history, linguistics, and zoology. The alum advisory diplomacy is classified by Carnegie as "comprehensive with medical/veterinary." In 2008, it accepted the third better amount of doctorates in the nation.