entist, 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-

strong, Dwight Armstrong, and David Fine were found responsible for the blast. Leo Burt was identified as a suspect, but was never apprehended or tried.[27]
While the student body has shed much of its radical image, the campus is still known for its progressive politics.[citation needed] In February 2011, thousands of students marched and occupied the Wisconsin State Capitol during the 2011 Wisconsin protests.
Timeline of notable events[edit]
Notable historical moments in the first 150 years of the University of Wisconsin–Madison include:
1863 Women students first admitted to University of Wisconsin during the American Civil War,[28][29][30]
1866 State legislature designated the University as the Wisconsin land-grant institution
April 4, 1892 The first edition of the student-run The Daily Cardinal was published
1894 State Board of Regents rejected an effort to purge Professor Richard T. Ely for supporting striking printers, issuing the famous "sifting and winnowing" manifesto in defense of academic freedom, later described as "part of Wisconsin's Magna Carta"[31]
1898 UW music instructors Henry Dyke Sleeper and Conner Ross Buerosse wrote Varsity, the university’s alma mater[31]
1904–1905 UW Graduate School established
1905 the University awards the first PhD in chemical engineering ever granted, to Oliver Patterson Watts.
1907 Wisconsin Union was founded
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 p