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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 • John A. List • George P. Smith • 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
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