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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 • John Muir • Jack Kilby • Dick Cheney • Joan Wallach Scott • Bud Selig • Dale Chihuly • Joyce Carol Oates • Willem Dafoe • Errol Morris • Gena Rowlands • Eudora Welty • John Szarkowski • D. Wayne Lukas • William Campbell • Etta Zuber Falconer • George P. Smith • John A. List • Jim Jordan • Lawrence Wong • Alice Evans • Tammy Baldwin • Reince Priebus • Satya Nadella • Bruce Nauman • Elda Emma Anderson • Theodore William Schultz • Sherrie Levine • Carl Rogers • bell hooks • Bernard Ogilvie Dodge • Howard Aiken • Erwin Neher • C. Wright Mills • John Bardeen • Tommy Thompson • William Chandler Bagley • Paul D. Boyer • Alan G. MacDiarmid • Leonard Bloomfield • Euphrase Kezilahabi • Abraham Maslow • Alan Ameche • Willard Harrison Bennett • John Vincent Atanasoff • Stanford Moore
Related People Donna Shalala

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