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Date 1849 - present
Areas Of Involvement land-grant universities • public education
Notable Alumni Frederick Jackson Turner • Oliver Smithies • S.I. Hayakawa • Warren Weaver • John Searle • Frank Lloyd Wright • Robert M. La Follette • Alberto Fujimori • Willem Dafoe • John Muir • Joan Wallach Scott • Jim Jordan • Errol Morris • Jack Kilby • Bud Selig • Dick Cheney • Bruce Nauman • Joyce Carol Oates • Dale Chihuly • Sherrie Levine • D. Wayne Lukas • Gena Rowlands • Tammy Baldwin • Lawrence Wong • William Campbell • John Szarkowski • Eudora Welty • Satya Nadella • Etta Zuber Falconer • George P. Smith • John A. List • Reince Priebus • John Vincent Atanasoff • bell hooks • Elda Emma Anderson • Alice Evans • Theodore William Schultz • Bernard Ogilvie Dodge • Carl Rogers • Erwin Neher • John Bardeen • William Chandler Bagley • C. Wright Mills • Tommy Thompson • Paul D. Boyer • Alan G. MacDiarmid • Euphrase Kezilahabi • Howard Aiken • Abraham Maslow • Leonard Bloomfield • Alan Ameche • Willard Harrison Bennett • Stanford Moore
Related People Donna Shalala

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University of Wisconsin
Sheboygan: Brotz Science Building
Old armory building on the campus of the University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point
The science behind making ice cream
Know how the heating elements of the cotton candy machine acts upon the granulated sugar and converts it into cotton candy
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