University of Wisconsin, Madison

In Madison, Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public land-grant research university. UW–Madison, which was founded when Wisconsin became a state in 1848, is the official state university of Wisconsin and the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It was Wisconsin's first public university and is still the state's oldest and largest public university.

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is divided into 20 schools and colleges. It offers 136 undergraduate majors, 148 master's degree programs, and 120 doctoral programs. 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 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 of human embryonic stem cells by James Thomson is among the scientific advances made at UW–Madison. The University of Wisconsin–Madison was also the home of the prestigious "Wisconsin School" of economics and diplomatic history, and UW–Madison professor Aldo Leopold was a key figure in the development of modern environmental science and conservationism.

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