University of Wisconsin: Quick Facts

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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 • John H. Van Vleck • Warren Weaver • John Searle • Frank Lloyd Wright • Robert M. La Follette • Jim Jordan • Alberto Fujimori • Joyce Carol Oates • John Muir • Carrie Coon • George B. Schaller • Joan Wallach Scott • Errol Morris • Jack Kilby • Bud Selig • Dick Cheney • D. Wayne Lukas • Bruce Nauman • Dale Chihuly • Sherrie Levine • 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 • Scott Colom • Bernard Ogilvie Dodge • Carl Rogers • Erwin Neher • Euphrase Kezilahabi • Alvin Harvey Hansen • John Bardeen • William Chandler Bagley • Tommy Thompson • C. Wright Mills • Paul D. Boyer • Alan G. MacDiarmid • Howard Aiken • Abraham Maslow • Leonard Bloomfield • Alan Ameche • Willard Harrison Bennett • Stanford Moore
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