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

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 is located in the state capital, [[Madison, Wisconsin]], on a sprawling lakeside campus.

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 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 has a pleasant lakeside campus, and is academically ranked among the top fifty U. S. universities<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php National Universities: Top Schools] U. S. News and World Report</ref>  

It is academically ranked among the top fifty U. S. universities<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1natudoc_brief.php National Universities: Top Schools] U. S. News and World Report</ref>  

[[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.