The University of Wisconsin, Madison is a land-grant, sea-grant public university, and the flagship school of the University of Wisconsin system. It is consistently ranked as one of the top 50 colleges in the U.S. Founded in 1838 by the state territorial legislature, UW–Madison today sits on 933 acres of land in Madison, Wisconsin. Its mottos are "God, our light" and “The divine within the universe, however manifested, is my light.” Alumni, faculty and former faculty have won 20 Nobel Prizes and 38 Pulitzer Prizes. Notable alumni include American anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar, aviator Charles Lindbergh, architect Frank Lloyd Wright, writer Joyce Carol Oates, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin and TV commentator Greta Van Susteren. The school’s colors are cardinal and white and its mascot is Bucky Badger. Its sporting affiliations are NCAA Division I – Big Ten and WCHA, and varsity sports offered include men’s basketball, water polo, rugby and baseball, and women’s basketball, ice hockey, volleyball, water polo and soccer. A school tradition started in 1920 involves the members of the UW–Madison marching band turning their caps backwards after the Badgers win a game, which symbolizes looking back at the team’s victory.
Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County. As of July 1, 2017, Madison's estimated population of 255,214 made it the second-largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 82nd-largest in the United States. The city forms the core of the United States Census Bureau's Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, and Columbia counties. More from Wikipedia...
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