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[[image:Siftingwinnowing.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"Sifting and Winnowing" statement]]

[[image:Siftingwinnowing.jpg|right|300px|thumb|"Sifting and Winnowing" statement]]

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has an enrollment of 41,466 students and a budget of $2.1 billion dollars (2005–06). It has one of the smallest minority enrollments among major schools, with only 11.5% of its student population being African American (2.7%), Asian American (5.2%), Native American (0.6%) or Hispanic (3%). It was founded in 1848 and is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin.  

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an important public research university with an enrollment of over forty thousand students and a budget of over two billion dollars.

 

It has one of the smallest minority enrollments among major schools, with only 11.5% of its student population being African American (2.7%), Asian American (5.2%), Native American (0.6%) or Hispanic (3%).

[[Aldo Leopold]] wrote his classic 1949 work, ''A Sand County Almanac,'' while a professor of game management at the University of Wisconsin.  

[[Aldo Leopold]] wrote his classic 1949 work, ''A Sand County Almanac,'' while a professor of game management at the University of Wisconsin.  

The University of Wisconsin was a pioneer in the patenting and commercial licensing of university research. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) was founded in 1925 to licence professor Harry Steenbock's process for fortifying milk with vitamin D.<ref>[http://www.warf.org/about/index.jsp?cid=26 Our History], WARF website</ref> Warfarin, a drug used to prevent blood clots, is named for WARF. As of 1999 it was the eleventh-most-prescribed drug in the United States.<ref>[http://www.uwalumni.com/home/coolstuff/askabe/askabe_people/askabe_people.aspx Ask Abe Archives - People], UW website</ref>

The University of Wisconsin was a pioneer in the patenting and commercial licensing of university research. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) was founded in 1925 to licence professor Harry Steenbock's process for fortifying milk with vitamin D.<ref>[http://www.warf.org/about/index.jsp?cid=26 Our History], WARF website</ref> The blood-thinning drug dicoumadin was developed at WARF during an investigation of cattle disease; as of 1999 it was the eleventh-most-prescribed drug in the United States, and is also used, under the name Warfarin, as a rat poison.<ref>[http://www.uwalumni.com/home/coolstuff/askabe/askabe_people/askabe_people.aspx Ask Abe Archives - People], UW website</ref>

A plaque on Bascom Hall quotes a statement from an 1894 Board of Regents report:

A plaque on Bascom Hall quotes a statement from an 1894 Board of Regents report: