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, 12:50, April 26, 2007Must find better references for the details... I assembled the story piecemeal from Google Books "snippets" and other bits and pieces here and there.
[[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> 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>
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 Wisconsin in the 1930s during an investigation of cattle disease. It was discovered by Karl Paul Link, after Ed Carlson—a farmer from Deer Park, Wisconsin who was confident that the university would be interested in his problem—arrived unannounced on his doorstep bearing a bucket of blood from a dead calf. WARF patented and licensed the patent; the drug was used first as a rat poison under the name Warfarin. As of 1999 dicoumadin 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>
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: