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unusual facts about University of Wisconsin – Madison



Dale G. Madison

He received his first performer screen film credit in the original 1988 John Waters movie Hairspray and has appeared on NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Streets as well as Showtime's Barbershop: The Series.

He was first placed on the main channel following host Mike Rowe (Discovery Channel Dirty Jobs) before transferring to the Fashion Channel.

Dorothy Reed Mendenhall

She left to marry Charles Mendenhall who had been hired as a member of the Physics faculty at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (UW).

Edmond H. Madison

Madison was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and Sixty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1907, until his death in Dodge City, Kansas, September 18, 1911.

Forrest-Marbury House

Marbury's battle with President Thomas Jefferson over President John Adams's federal appointments resulted in the landmark 1803 U. S. Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison, written by Chief Justice John Marshall and decided against Marbury, that first established the right of judicial review of executive and legislative branch acts of government.

Judiciary Act of 1789

A clause granting the Supreme Court the power to issue writs of mandamus outside its original jurisdiction was declared unconstitutional by Marbury v. Madison (1803) (5 U.S. 137), one of the seminal cases in American law.

P. Michael Conneally

Conneally received his bachelor’s degree in Agriculture with Honors from University College Dublin in 1954 and Master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.


see also

Bernard Cohen

Bernard Cecil Cohen, former chancellor of University of Wisconsin, Madison, see List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1981

Charles Bardeen

Charles Russell Bardeen (1871–1935), American anatomist, first dean of the medical school of the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Iltis

Hugh Iltis (born 1925), a Professor Emeritus of Botany at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jessica Valenti

University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Ann Althouse criticized Feministing in 2006 for its sometimes sexualized content.

John Wilde

He gained one important artistic collaborator in 1966 when book artist Walter Hamady joined the art department faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

John Wiley

John D. Wiley, former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Larry Dahl

Lawrence F. Dahl (born 1929), professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Nadler

Steven Nadler, Jewish American Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Robert X Browning

In 1981, he was awarded his Ph.D., also from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, under the direction of Ira Sharkansky with the thesis "Political and economic predictors of policy outcomes: U.S. social welfare expenditures, 1947-1977".

Ronald Raines

Ronald T. Raines (born 1958), American chemical biologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Single-grain

Single-grain experiment, an experiment carried out at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from May 1907 to 1911

Systemness

The online publication Inside Higher Ed published an opinion piece by a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on October 4,2012 which noted the expanded usage of systemness and its application to higher education.

Velvet Light Trap

The Velvet Light Trap was established as a quarterly journal in 1971 by film lovers in Madison, Wisconsin, including graduate students at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Warf

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, technology transfer office of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States