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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMNU_science-hall_Madison-WI.html
Science HallUniversity of Wisconsin - Madisonhas been designated aNational Historic LandmarkThis site possesses national significancein commemorating the history of theUnited States of America.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMGP_leaders-in-science_Madison-WI.html
The University of Wisconsin's setting along the shores of Lake Mendota made it a natural place to found the study of lakes in North America. But advances in limnology, which was first studied here in the 1880s, are only one aspect of a long legacy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMG9_9xm-wha_Madison-WI.html
On this campus pioneer research and experimentation in "wireless" led to successful transmissions of voice and music in 1917, and the beginning of broadcasting on a scheduled basis in 1919.
Experimental station 9XM transmitted telegraphic sig…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMB6_turtle-effigy_Madison-WI.html
Rare two-tailed type of Indian turtle mound, length: 104 feet; built by the Winnebago probably about 500 years ago
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMB5_bird-effigy_Madison-WI.html
Common type of Indian emblematic mound: Body 52½ feet, wingspread formerly about 133 feet
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLZN_robert-e-gard-memorial-storytellers-circle_Madison-WI.html
Robert E. Gard (1910-1992) wrote, spoke, taught, and lived the Wisconsin Idea through community arts development. Convinced everyone has a story to tell, he envisioned a Wisconsin in which everyone wrote, painted, danced, acted or sang their story…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLWB_understanding-immunity_Madison-WI.html
In the mid-1940s University of Wisconsin geneticist Ray Owen noticed a surprising fact about non-identical cattle twins. Each twin had two kinds of blood cells, its own and those of its twin. In ordinary transfusions, such mixing of blood cells of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLWA_forging-agrarian-democracy_Madison-WI.html
The modern discipline of agricultural and applied economics owes much to University of Wisconsin scholars Henry C. Taylor and Benjamin H. Hibbard for their seminal work on the economic, political, and social meaning of land ownership. Agricultural…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLW9_wisconsin-alumni-research-foundation_Madison-WI.html
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, incorporated in 1925, was created to make the discoveries of University of Wisconsin scientists available to the public. WARF patents return royalties to the University to support new research. The idea to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLUW_rasmus-bj-rn-anderson_Madison-WI.html
Born of Norwegian parents in town of Albion, January 12, 1846
Member of the University faculty 1869-1883United States Minister to Denmark 1885-1889Died in Madison, Wisconsin, March 2, 1936
First Wisconsin-born professor on the University fac…