In 2004, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle proposed the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID), a UW-Madison research enterprise, to…
In Jan. 1999, the Carbone Cancer Center and McArdle Laboratories merged and began to function as a single…
On Nov. 26, 1998, Wisconsin biologist James Thomson reported the first isolation and culturing of human embryonic stem…
On Apr. 22, 1990, the second Earth Day was celebrated by more than 225 million people. The first…
On Apr. 24, 1987, Advanced Genetic Sciences (AGS) sprayed Frostban on an acre of strawberry plants in Brentwood,…
In 1984, the University of Wisconsin University Research Park was founded to encourage technology transfer and create an…
In 1983, Dr. Tak Wah Mak co-discovered the T-cell receptor and the gene that produces it. Dr. Mak…
On Jul. 27, 1979, the last cases of wild type 1 poliovirus occurred in the U.S. among unvaccinated…
In 1978, the Carbone Cancer Center Clinical Sciences Center was completed in January adding over 70,000 square feet…
On Apr. 22, 1976, the U.S. Congress passed the Vitamin-Mineral Amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic…
In 1973, the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center received National Cancer Center designation from the National Cancer…
On Apr. 22, 1970, the first Earth Day was held and the modern environmental movement was born. A…
On Oct. 3, 1969, a proposal to establish “Earth Day” was submitted by John McConnell to Peter Tamaris…
In 1968, an Institutional Patent Agreement was signed between the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) and Department of Health,…
In 1964, the construction of the first McArdle building resulted from a bequest by Michael W. McArdle, a…
On Oct. 13, 1962, the groundbreaking ceremony for the McArdle Cancer Research Institute building was held. The construction…
In 1960, the construction of the first McArdle building resulted from a gift by Michael W. McArdle. Dr….
In April 1957, the American Chemical Society awarded the Priestley Medal to Farrington Daniels “to recognize distinguished services…
In 1957, Gilson was founded in in Middleton by Dr. Warren Gilson, a faculty member at the University…
In 1951, Joshua Lederberg began studying for a doctor of medicine degree at Columbia College and working in…
In 1948, Warfarin was introduced as a pesticide against rats and mice. Warfarin (a.k.a. Coumadin) is an anticoagulant…
In 1940, the McArdle Memorial Laboratory was founded in Madison. McArdle Lab was one of the first basic…
In 1934, William Perry Murphy, who shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine for discoveries concerning liver therapy in…
On Feb. 19, 1927, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) completed its first licensing agreement with the Quaker…
In 1926, Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children was built on the Marquam Hill campus and becomes the first…
On Nov. 14, 1925, the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents filed the charter for the Wisconsin Alumni…
In 1916, the Hancock Agricultural Research Station, a 412-acre vegetable research farm, was founded in central Wisconsin. The…
In 1913, Elmer McCollum and Marguerite Davis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered a ‘fat-soluble’ accessory food substance,…
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In 1904, Charles Van Hise, president of the University of Wisconsin, declared that ‘the beneficent influence of the…
In 1894, the Regents defended UW professor Richard T. Ely by adopting the sifting and winnowing statement: ﾓWhatever…