University of Wisconsin-Madison

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, founded in 1848, the year the state entered the Union, and it is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System, a single board of regents that governs thirteen comprehensive public universities across the state.威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校是位于美国威斯康星州麦迪逊市的公立赠地研究型大学，创办于 1848 年，与该州加入联邦的时间相同，是威斯康星大学系统的旗舰校区，该系统由同一校董事会统辖全州十三所综合公立大学。

In 2024 the campus enrolled 48,557 students, of whom 34,212 were undergraduates and 14,345 were graduate and professional students, supported by about 2,220 faculty and 24,232 staff, its libraries hold more than eleven million volumes, and twenty-three Nobel laureates, two Fields medalists and one Turing Award laureate have been affiliated with the university.2024 年该校在校生为 48,557 人，其中本科生 34,212 人、研究生与专业学位学生 14,345 人，教职人员约 2,220 人、行政与技术人员 24,232 人，图书馆藏书逾一千一百万册，至今已有 23 位诺贝尔奖得主、2 位菲尔兹奖得主与 1 位图灵奖得主与该校存在师生或研究关联。

History

• The Wisconsin Territorial Legislature passed a law incorporating a University of the Territory of Wisconsin in 1838, and on 26 July 1848 the first governor of the state, Nelson Dewey, signed the act that formally created the University of Wisconsin, implementing a clause of the state constitution that required a state university at or near the seat of government.1838 年威斯康星领地立法机构通过法律，设立「威斯康星领地大学」，但该机构在威斯康星 1848 年建州前并无实际作为；1848 年 7 月 26 日，该州首任州长纳尔逊·杜威签署法案，落实州宪法中「在政府所在地附近设立一所州立大学」的规定，正式创建威斯康星大学。

• John H. Lathrop became the university's first chancellor in the autumn of 1849, and with John W. Sterling as its first professor of mathematics a first class of seventeen students met at the Madison Female Academy on 5 February 1849, while the board of regents fixed a permanent site of about fifty acres bounded on the east by the street later known as State Street.约翰·H·拉思罗普于 1849 年秋出任首任校长，约翰·W·斯特林担任首任数学教授；1849 年 2 月 5 日，17 名学生在麦迪逊女子学院上了第一堂课。校董事会同时圈定了约 50 英亩的永久校址，其东界正是后来命名为州街的道路。

• North Hall, built in 1851, was the first building on the campus, University Hall, later called Bascom Hall, was completed in 1859, and its dome was destroyed by fire on 10 October 1916 and never replaced, while Levi Booth and Charles T. Wakeley became the first graduates in 1854 and the first doctorate, conferred in 1892, went to Charles R. Van Hise.北楼建于 1851 年，是校园内最早的建筑；最初名为大学楼的巴斯科姆楼于 1859 年落成，其圆顶在 1916 年 10 月 10 日的大火中被毁，此后再未重建；1854 年利维·布斯与查尔斯·T·韦克利成为首届毕业生，1892 年学校颁出首个博士学位，获得者正是后来的校长查尔斯·R·范海思。

• Women were admitted to the university during the American Civil War in 1863, the state legislature designated it the land-grant institution of Wisconsin in 1866, William Smith Noland became the first known African American graduate in 1875, and the student-run Daily Cardinal first appeared on 4 April 1892.1863 年美国内战期间，学校开始招收女学生；1866 年威斯康星州立法机构正式认定该校为该州的赠地大学；1875 年威廉·史密斯·诺兰德成为已知首位非裔毕业生；1892 年 4 月 4 日，完全由学生自办的《每日红雀报》创刊。

• In 1894 Oliver Elwin Wells, the superintendent of public instruction of Wisconsin, tried to remove Richard T. Ely from his chair of economics, political science and history for alleged socialist teaching, but the board of regents instead issued a proclamation defending academic freedom and the sifting and winnowing of competing claims to truth.1894 年，威斯康星州公共教育总监奥利弗·埃尔温·威尔斯试图以宣扬社会主义学说为由，解除理查德·伊利在经济学、政治学与历史学系的职务，但校董事会反而发表宣言，公开维护学术自由以及自由「筛选与甄别」不同真理主张的权利。

• Science Hall was constructed in 1888 as one of the first buildings anywhere to use iron I-beams, Music Hall was designed by the Madison architect David R. Jones and opened in 1878 in the Gothic Revival style, and the Education Building, later home of the College of Engineering, was built in the Beaux-Arts manner, while Birge Hall and the Wisconsin Historical Society were designed in the Neoclassical style.科学楼建于 1888 年，是世界上最早采用工字钢的建筑之一；由麦迪逊建筑师戴维·R·琼斯设计的音乐楼于 1878 年落成，风格为哥特复兴式；后来容纳工程学院的教育楼采用美术学院派风格，而比尔奇楼与威斯康星历史学会的建筑则属新古典主义风格。

• Charles R. Van Hise articulated the Wisconsin Idea in 1904, declaring that he would never be content until the beneficent influence of the university reached every home in the state, and the Graduate School was separated from the teaching colleges in 1904 and 1905, a split that gave the university a distinct research arm.1904 年，校长查尔斯·R·范海思提出「威斯康星理念」，宣称除非大学的有益影响遍及州内每一个家庭，否则他永远不会满足；1904 至 1905 年，研究生院从各学院中独立出来，使学校拥有了专门的研究机构。

• Between 1907 and 1911 Stephen Moulton Babcock and Edwin B. Hart conducted the single-grain experiment that laid the foundations of modern nutrition, Elmer V. McCollum discovered vitamin A in 1913 and Marguerite Davis vitamin B in 1916, and Harry Steenbock patented a process for adding vitamin D to milk and other foods in 1923.1907 至 1911 年，斯蒂芬·莫尔顿·巴布科克与埃德温·B·哈特主持「单一谷物实验」，奠定现代营养学的基础；1913 年埃尔默·麦科勒姆发现维生素 A，1916 年玛格丽特·戴维斯发现维生素 B；1923 年哈里·斯廷博克取得向牛奶等食品添加维生素 D 的工艺专利。

• Steenbock's process was commercialised through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, chartered in 1925 to control the patenting and patent income of discoveries made at Madison, so that the licensing revenue of a single vitamin invention financed laboratory work at the university for decades afterwards.斯廷博克的工艺由 1925 年获特许成立的威斯康星校友研究基金会负责商业化，该基金会掌控麦迪逊各项发明的专利申请与专利收入；仅一项维生素发明的许可收益，就在其后数十年里持续资助学校的实验室研究。

• William Purdy and Paul Beck wrote the athletic fight song On, Wisconsin in 1909, radio station 9XM began broadcasting from the campus in 1919 and is now WHA, the Memorial Union opened in 1928 to honour veterans of the First World War, and the university arboretum opened in 1934 south of the main campus.1909 年威廉·珀迪与保罗·贝克创作了校队助威歌《威斯康星加油》；1919 年电台 9XM 在校园开播，即今天的 WHA；1928 年纪念联盟开业，用以纪念一战阵亡将士；1934 年，学校在主校区以南的植物园建成开放。

• Alexander Meiklejohn designed and led the University of Wisconsin Experimental College from 1927, a two-year great-books curriculum in which students lived with their teachers and followed no fixed schedule and received no semester grades, but the Depression and its poor relations with faculty and Wisconsin residents closed the college in 1932.1927 年亚历山大·梅克尔约翰设计并主持威斯康星大学实验学院，这是一所实行两年制名著读本课程的学院，学生与教师同吃同住，没有固定课表，也不按学期评定成绩；但大萧条以及该院与教职员和威斯康星居民的疏离，最终导致它于 1932 年关闭。

• In 1936 John Steuart Curry became the first artist in residence at any university, during the 1940s the laboratory of Karl Paul Link developed the anticoagulant Warfarin, whose name was formed from the initials of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and in the Second World War Madison was one of 131 colleges and universities in the V-12 Navy College Training Program.1936 年约翰·斯图亚特·库里成为大学史上首位驻校艺术家；20 世纪 40 年代，卡尔·保罗·林克的实验室研制出抗凝药物华法林，其名称取自威斯康星校友研究基金会的首字母；二战期间，麦迪逊是全美 131 所参与海军学院训练计划的高校之一。

• Cornelius Golightly was appointed the first African American faculty member of the university in 1949, taking an assistant professorship in philosophy and remaining on the faculty for six years, a small but symbolic step in an institution whose first Black graduate had appeared only three quarters of a century earlier.1949 年，康尼利厄斯·戈莱特成为该校首位非裔教职人员，担任哲学助理教授，并在教职上停留了六年；对于一所在此前仅三刻钟之前才出现首位非裔毕业生的机构而言，这是虽小却具象征意义的一步。

• The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was created in 1956, and UW-Green Bay and UW-Parkside followed in 1968 along with ten freshman-sophomore centres, so that Madison gradually became the flagship of a state-wide network rather than the only institution of higher learning in Wisconsin.1956 年威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校设立，1968 年又增设绿湾分校与帕克赛德分校，并同时增加了十个低年级教学中心；麦迪逊校区由此逐渐从一所在威斯康星唯一的大学，变为全州高校网络的旗舰。

• In 1971 the Wisconsin legislature merged the University of Wisconsin with nine universities and four freshman-sophomore branch campuses of the Wisconsin State Universities System, creating the University of Wisconsin System under a single board of regents, and until that year the institution had been formally known simply as the University of Wisconsin.1971 年，威斯康星州立法机构将威斯康星大学与威斯康星州立大学系统的九所大学及四个低年级分校合并，在统一的校董事会之下成立威斯康星大学系统；在此之前，该校的正式名称一直只是「威斯康星大学」。

• Howard Temin, a virologist at Madison, co-discovered the enzyme reverse transcriptase in 1969, and in the same year The Badger Herald was founded as a conservative student newspaper that still competes with The Daily Cardinal for campus readership, while the two papers make the university the only one in the United States with two daily student newspapers.1969 年，麦迪逊的病毒学家霍华德·特明共同发现了逆转录酶；同年，立场保守的学生报纸《獾子先驱报》创刊，至今仍与《每日红雀报》争夺校园读者，也正是这两份报纸让学校成为全美唯一拥有两份日报型学生报纸的高校。

• The late 1960s and early 1970s brought repeated demonstrations against the Dow Chemical recruiters and against the Army Mathematics Research Center in Sterling Hall, and on 24 August 1970 a bomb exploded beside the physics department at about 3.40 in the morning, killing the postdoctoral researcher Robert Fassnacht while leaving the military centre itself almost undamaged, an episode later chronicled in the documentary Two Days in October.20 世纪 60 年代末至 70 年代初，校园里接连爆发抗议，矛头对准陶氏化学公司的招聘人员，以及设在斯特林楼内的美国陆军数学研究中心；1970 年 8 月 24 日凌晨约三点四十分，一枚炸弹在物理系旁爆炸，博士后研究员罗伯特·法斯纳赫特遇难，而作为目标的陆军研究中心几乎毫发无损。这一事件后来被纪录片《十月两日》记录下来。

• The university kept widening its research reach after the war, and in 1998 James Thomson, a member of its faculty, became the first person to isolate and culture human embryonic stem cells, a line of work that has since become a routine tool of regenerative medicine and of drug screening.战后学校继续扩大科研版图，1998 年本校教职人员詹姆斯·汤姆森成为首位分离并培养人类胚胎干细胞的人，这项工作此后成为再生医学与药物筛选的常规工具。

• A student referendum approved the renovation and expansion of the Memorial Union in 2006 and the university completed the work in 2017, while Union South, first built in 1971, was demolished in 2008 and replaced by a LEED-certified building that opened in 2011, so that both student union buildings were rebuilt inside a single decade.2006 年，学生公投通过了纪念联盟的翻新与扩建方案，学校于 2017 年竣工；建于 1971 年的联盟南区楼在 2008 年被拆除，2011 年启用的新楼取得 LEED 认证，两座学生会场馆在十年之内先后完成重建。

• The most recent structural change is written into the campus master plan, which schedules the demolition of the nineteen-storey Van Hise Hall for around 2025 and the replacement of the brutalist George L. Mosse Humanities Building on Library Mall with two new buildings, in part because of water damage in the older structure.近年的结构性变化已写入校园总体规划：规划把 19 层的范海思大楼的拆除时间定在 2025 年前后，并把图书馆大道上的粗野主义建筑乔治·L·莫斯人文学大楼改为拆除后新建两座楼，部分原因是老楼存在渗水损害。

Academics

• The university is divided into thirteen schools and colleges, namely the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the School of Business, the School of Education, the College of Engineering, the College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, the School of Human Ecology, the College of Letters and Science, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the School of Social Work, the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, the School of Medicine and Public Health, the School of Nursing, the School of Pharmacy and the School of Veterinary Medicine, completed by the Graduate School and the Mead Witter School of Music.学校下设十三个学院与学部，包括农业与生命科学学院、商学院、教育学院、工程学院、计算与人工智能学院、人类生态学院、文理学院、新闻与大众传播学院、社会工作学院、拉·福莱特公共事务学院、医学院与公共卫生学院、护理学院、药学院和兽医学院，此外还有研究生院与米德·威特音乐学院。

• In 2024 the university taught 136 undergraduate majors, 148 master's programmes and 120 doctoral programmes, and the student body of 48,557 divided into 34,212 undergraduates and 14,345 graduate and professional students, supported by about 2,220 faculty and a total staff of 24,232.2024 年学校开设 136 个本科专业、148 个硕士学位项目和 120 个博士学位项目，当年在校生 48,557 人，其中本科生 34,212 人、研究生与专业学位学生 14,345 人，专职教师约 2,220 人，教职员工总数 24,232 人。

• The College of Letters and Science is the largest college, enrolling roughly half of all undergraduates and built from thirty-eight departments and five professional schools that cover astronomy, economics, geography, history, linguistics and zoology among others, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies the undergraduate programme as arts and science plus professions with a high graduate coexistence.文理学院是全校规模最大的学院，招收了约一半的本科生，由三十八个系与五个专业学院组成，涵盖天文学、经济学、地理学、历史学、语言学与动物学等方向；卡内基教学促进基金会把本科培养方案归为「文理加专业型且研究生高度共存」一类。

• By the same Carnegie standards the graduate programme is classified as comprehensive with medical and veterinary provision, and in 2008 the university awarded the third largest number of doctorates in the United States, a ranking that reflects the weight of its professional schools in medicine, law, pharmacy and veterinary medicine rather than of science departments alone.按卡内基基金会的同一口径，研究生培养方案属于「含医学与兽医的综合性」类；2008 年学校颁发的博士学位数量位列全美第三，这一成绩反映出现有医学院、法学院、药学院与兽医学院等专业学院的权重，而不只是理科院系的表现。

• The university is governed by an eighteen-member board of regents, sixteen of whom are appointed by the governor of Wisconsin and two of whom are students of the system, with the elected superintendent of public instruction serving as an ex officio member, and the board appoints the chancellor, who currently serves in an interim capacity.学校由十八人组成的校董事会治理，其中十六人由威斯康星州州长任命、两人为大学系统的学生代表，州公共教育总监为当然成员；董事会任命校监，现任校监以临时身份履职。

• In the 2025 US News national programme tables the School of Education ranked first in the country and rehabilitation counselling also ranked first, speech-language pathology was third, occupational therapy and pharmacy were ninth, psychology was eighth, sociology ninth, computer science thirteenth, history thirteenth, statistics thirteenth and chemistry fourteenth, while the College of Engineering's programmes were ranked twenty-seventh.在美国新闻与世界报道 2025 年国内专业排名中，教育学院位列全国第一，康复辅导专业同样名列第一，语言言语病理学列第三，职业治疗与药学列第九，心理学列第八，社会学列第九，计算机科学列第十三，历史学与统计学同列第十三，化学列第十四，工程学院的各专业列第二十七。

• The Wisconsin Idea remains the organising principle of the research mission, and it was in laboratories of this university that vitamin A was isolated in 1913, vitamin B in 1916 and vitamin D in 1923, that a gene was first synthesised chemically through the work of Har Gobind Khorana, and that the direction of information flow inside cells was reversed when Howard Temin found reverse transcriptase in 1969.「威斯康星理念」至今仍是学校研究使命的组织原则：正是在这所大学的实验室里，1913 年分离出维生素 A，1916 年分离出维生素 B，1923 年分离出维生素 D；哈·戈宾德·科拉纳完成了基因的首次化学合成；1969 年霍华德·特明发现逆转录酶，揭示了细胞内部信息流动的反向机制。

• On National Science Foundation data the university ranked fifth among United States institutions in research expenditure in 2024, and its endowment reached 4.92 billion dollars in 2025, which together place the Madison campus among the largest public research universities by research spending alone.据美国国家科学基金会的数据，2024 年该校科研经费支出在全美高校中排名第五；2025 年学校捐赠基金达到 49.2 亿美元。仅从科研支出口径看，麦迪逊校区已跻身全美规模最大的公立研究型大学之列。

• A distinctive research platform is the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, chartered in 1925, which owns and licenses the intellectual property arising from university research and returns the licensing income to the campus, so that discoveries such as Steenbock's vitamin D process and Link's Warfarin have funded laboratory work for generations of students.该校一项特有的科研平台是 1925 年获特许成立的威斯康星校友研究基金会，它持有并许可由大学研究产生的知识产权，再把许可收入返还学校；斯廷博克的维生素 D 工艺与林克的华法林等成果，正是靠这一机制资助了一代又一代学生的实验室研究。

• The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing was founded in 1985 by the poet Ronald Wallace, who taught in the English department from 1972 to 2015, and it awards nine-month residencies that require fellows to live in the Madison area, teach a workshop each semester, help judge departmental writing contests and give a public reading, past fellows including Anthony Doerr and Ann Packer.威斯康星创意写作研究所由诗人罗纳德·华莱士于 1985 年创办，他本人自 1972 年至 2015 年在英语系任教；该所为尚未出版第二本书的作家提供为期九个月的驻校名额，获奖者须居住在麦迪逊地区、每学期主持一次工作坊、参与评审院系的写作比赛并举行公开朗读，安东尼·多尔与安·帕克等人都曾是驻校作家。

• The university is a member of the Big Ten Academic Alliance, the academic consortium of the conference universities, through which students enjoy in-house borrowing at other members' libraries and collective purchasing has saved member institutions nineteen million dollars, and Washburn Observatory still houses the College of Letters and Science Honors Program, which serves more than 1,300 undergraduates.学校是十大联盟学术联盟的成员，该联盟是与会各校的学术联合体，学生借此可在成员校图书馆直接借阅，联合采购已为成员节省 1,900 万美元；此外，沃什伯恩天文台至今仍设有文理学院荣誉项目，服务一千三百余名本科生。

• For the class of 2027, entering in the autumn of 2023, the university received 63,537 applications and admitted 27,527 of them, an admit rate of 43.3 per cent, and 7,966 of the admitted students enrolled for a yield rate of 28.9 per cent, while it accepts roughly two thirds of in-state applicants and about 47 per cent of applicants from outside the state.2023 年秋季入学的 2027 届共收到 63,537 份申请，录取 27,527 人，录取率为 43.3%；被录取者中有 7,966 人实际报到，入学率为 28.9%。学校对州内申请者的录取比例约为三分之二，对州外申请者约为 47%。

• Freshman retention stands at 94.2 per cent and 89.2 per cent of students graduate within six years, and in 2023 the average unweighted grade point average of enrolled freshmen was 3.88, with the middle half of ACT scores between 28 and 32 and the middle half of SAT scores between 1,370 and 1,490 among those freshmen who chose to submit them.新生一年级留存率为 94.2%，六年内的毕业率为 89.2%；2023 年入学新生未加权平均绩点为 3.88；在选择提交成绩的新生中，美国大学入学考试综合成绩中间一半位于 28 至 32 区间，学术水平测验中间一半位于 1,370 至 1,490 区间。

• Admissions has been test optional since the autumn of 2021 in response to the pandemic and remained so through the autumn of 2024, admission is need blind for domestic applicants, and the university sponsored ten National Merit Scholarship awards in 2020 and enrolled thirty National Merit Scholars in the 2020 to 2021 academic year.自 2021 年秋季入学起，学校因疫情实行不强制提交考试成绩的招生政策，并延续至 2024 年秋季；对美国本土申请者，学校实行不考虑家庭经济需求的录取；2020 年学校提供十个国家优秀奖学金名额，2020 至 2021 学年共有 30 名国家优秀奖学金得主在校就读。

• The libraries form one of the largest research collections in North America, ranked twelfth, with more than eleven million volumes, 103,844 serial titles, 6.4 million microform items and over 8.2 million items in other formats such as maps, musical scores, government documents and audiovisual materials, and more than one million volumes are lent to readers every year.学校图书馆群是北美规模最大的研究型馆藏之一，位列第十二，藏书逾一千一百万册，另有 103,844 种连续出版物、640 万件缩微资料与 820 多万件其他形态的资料，如地图、乐谱、政府文献与音视频资料；每年向外借出的图书超过一百万册次。

• Among current faculty and researchers the university counts 39 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 20 of the National Academy of Engineering, 13 of the National Academy of Medicine, 68 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 112 Guggenheim Fellows and five MacArthur Fellows, and it was one of the founding members of the Association of American Universities.在现任教职与研究人员中，学校有 39 位美国国家科学院院士、20 位美国国家工程院院士、13 位美国国家医学院院士、68 位美国艺术与科学院院士、112 位古根海姆研究员与 5 位麦克阿瑟学者；学校还是美国大学协会的创始成员之一。

Campus

• The main campus occupies 933 acres on the isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, a little over a mile west of the Wisconsin State Capitol and linked to it by State Street, and the whole campus including research stations across the state covers more than 10,600 acres and contains four National Historic Landmarks.主校区占地 933 英亩，位于门多塔湖与莫诺纳湖之间的地峡上，在威斯康星州议会大厦以西一英里多处，并由州街与之相连；连同散布全州的研究站，整个校区面积超过 10,600 英亩，校内共有四处国家历史地标。

• Bascom Hall, finished in 1859 on the summit of Bascom Hill, is regarded as the heart of the campus and now houses the office of the chancellor, while the Federal style North Hall of 1851, designed by John F. Rague and modelled on dormitories at the University of Michigan, is the oldest surviving structure and still the home of political science, and its twin South Hall of 1855 served as the women's dormitory before the female college building opened in 1871.巴斯科姆楼于 1859 年在巴斯科姆山顶落成，被视为「校园之心」，如今是校监办公室所在地；由约翰·F·拉格设计、仿照密歇根大学宿舍楼的联邦式北楼建于 1851 年，是校内现存最古老的建筑，如今仍是政治学系的所在地；与它对称的南楼建于 1855 年，1871 年女子学院楼启用前曾作为女生宿舍。

• The Carillon Tower, erected in 1936 to a design by Warren Powers Laird and Paul Philippe Cret so that its balustrade would echo Bascom Hall, carries fifty-six bronze bells, the largest of which weighs 6,800 pounds, rings automatically on the hour and plays tunes such as Varsity and On, Wisconsin, and east of the tower stands a monument to the Sauk leader Black Hawk.钟塔建于 1936 年，由沃伦·鲍尔斯·莱尔德与保罗·菲利普·克雷特设计，其栏杆样式呼应巴斯科姆楼；塔内共有 56 口青铜钟，最大一口重达 6,800 磅，整点自动敲响并演奏《校队》《威斯康星加油》等曲目，塔东立有索克族领袖黑鹰的纪念碑。

• Science Hall, designed by Henry C. Koch after a fire destroyed its predecessor in 1884 and built in the Romanesque Revival style in 1888, is one of the oldest buildings to use iron I-beams, Music Hall of 1878 was designed by David R. Jones, and the George L. Mosse Humanities Building on Library Mall, put up in the late 1960s in the Brutalist style, is scheduled to be demolished and replaced under the campus master plan.科学楼由亨利·C·科赫设计，1884 年原建筑毁于火灾后，新楼于 1888 年以罗曼复兴式落成，是最早采用工字钢的建筑之一；1878 年的音乐楼由戴维·R·琼斯设计；图书馆大道上的乔治·L·莫斯人文学大楼建于 20 世纪 60 年代末，风格为粗野主义，按校园总体规划将被拆除重建。

• Henry Mall is a landscaped quadrangle fifty feet wide and 575 feet long, laid out by Warren Laird and Paul Cret between 1903 and 1961 to place new technical departments close to the sciences and the university farm, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, and it carries the Hoard statue sculpted by Gutzon Borglum and the Henry Boulder, a piece of gneiss named for the dean who helped establish the College of Agriculture.亨利广场是宽 50 英尺、长 575 英尺的景观方庭，由沃伦·莱尔德与保罗·克雷特于 1903 至 1961 年间陆续规划建设，用途是把新的技术类院系安置在理科与大学农场附近；该街区于 1992 年列入国家史迹名录，广场上有博格勒姆创作的霍德雕像，以及一块片麻岩「亨利巨石」，后者纪念协助创办农业学院的院长威廉·阿农·亨利。

• The Memorial Union, opened in 1928 on the shore of Lake Mendota and the first union at a public university to serve beer, still pours its own Rathskeller Ale in the cellar bar beside the terrace, while Union South, built in 1971, was replaced in 2011 by a LEED-certified building containing dining options, an art gallery, a cinema, a climbing wall, a bowling alley, event spaces and a hotel.纪念联盟于 1928 年在门多塔湖畔开业，是美国第一所供应啤酒的公立大学学生会场馆，湖滨露台旁的地下酒馆至今仍供应自家酿造的「地下酒馆黑啤」；联盟南区楼建于 1971 年，2011 年由取得 LEED 认证的新楼取代，内设餐饮、艺术展厅、影院、攀岩墙、保龄球馆、活动空间与酒店。

• The arboretum, some 1,200 acres and about four miles south of the main campus, opened in 1934 as a demonstration area for native ecosystems, and the campus also holds the Allen Centennial Gardens, the Lakeshore Nature Preserve and four clusters of effigy mounds at Observatory Hill, Willow Drive, Picnic Point and Eagle Heights, which Wisconsin statute protects with a five-foot buffer zone.植物园占地约 1,200 英亩，位于主校区以南约四英里，1934 年开放，作为本土生态系统的示范区；校园内还设有艾伦百年花园、湖滨自然保护区，以及分布在天文山、柳树路、野餐角与鹰崖的四组土丘遗址，威斯康星州法律为这些土丘划设了五英尺的保护缓冲带。

• The Chazen Museum of Art, formerly the Elvehjem Museum of Art, holds painting, drawing, sculpture, prints and photography spanning more than seven hundred years, the Zoological Museum holds about 500,000 specimens and has been one of only three museums permitted by the government of Ecuador to collect in the Galapagos Islands since 1978, and the Geology Museum displays the Boaz Mastodon found on a farm in south-western Wisconsin in 1897.查岑艺术博物馆前身是埃尔维耶姆艺术博物馆，馆藏涵盖绘画、素描、雕塑、版画与摄影，跨七百余年；动物学博物馆收藏约 50 万件标本，自 1978 年起成为厄瓜多尔政府允许在加拉帕戈斯群岛采集标本的三家博物馆之一；地质博物馆展出了 1897 年在威斯康星州西南部一座农场发现的博兹猛犸标本。

• Memorial Library, the principal humanities and social science facility and the largest library in Wisconsin with over 3.5 million volumes, holds special collections, the Mills Music Library and a digital collections centre, while Steenbock Memorial Library serves the sciences, Ebling Library for the Health Sciences opened in 2004, and the Kohler Art Library, created as a teaching resource in 1970 and digitised in 2007, holds more than 185,000 volumes including over 1,000 artists' books.纪念图书馆是人文与社会科学的主要研究场所，也是威斯康星州最大的图书馆，藏书逾 350 万册，并设有特藏部、迈尔斯音乐图书馆与数字化收藏中心；斯廷博克纪念图书馆服务理科各系，2004 年开放的埃布林健康科学图书馆服务医学与护理；科勒艺术图书馆创设于 1970 年作为教学资源，2007 年完成数字化，藏书逾 18.5 万册，其中艺术家书籍超过一千册。

• The university runs more than twenty residence halls, with thirteen halls and four dining markets in the Lakeshore neighbourhood by the lake and eight halls and two dining markets in the Southeast neighbourhood near downtown, the largest of them holding 1,250 students and the smallest 30, while Barnard Hall opened in 1913 as the second women's dormitory and the whole campus is a short walk from State Street and the centre of Madison.学校运营二十余栋学生宿舍，湖滨区临门多塔湖有十三栋宿舍与四个餐饮市场，东南区靠近市中心有八栋宿舍与两个餐饮市场，最大的一栋可住 1,250 人，最小的住 30 人；1913 年开办的巴纳德楼是校内的第二座女生宿舍。校园距州街与麦迪逊市中心步行可达。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the university places 131st with a score of 62.8, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it 53rd, and the US News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026 to 2027 places it 100th, so that the Madison campus sits inside the leading group of American public universities on all three lists.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中该校以 62.8 分列第 131 位，在泰晤士高等教育 2027 年世界大学排名中列第 53 位，在 US News 2026 至 2027 年最佳全球大学排名中列第 100 位；在这三大榜单上，麦迪逊校区都稳居美国公立大学的前列。

• Nationally the university was tied 39th among national universities in the 2025 US News tables and tied 13th among public universities, its computer science programme rising to ninth among publics and thirteenth in the country, and Poets and Quants placed the Wisconsin School of Business undergraduate programme 22nd nationally, up ten places from 2022 and inside the top ten among public universities.在国内榜单中，2025 年美国新闻与世界报道把该校并列列为全国第 39 位、并列公立大学第 13 位；计算机科学专业升至公立第 9 位、全国第 13 位。《诗人与商人》杂志把威斯康星商学院本科项目列为全国第 22 位，比 2022 年上升十位，在公立大学中进入前十。

• Earlier editions of the world tables place the university 35th in the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities, 102nd in the 2024 QS World University Rankings, 63rd in the 2024 Times Higher Education table and 63rd in the 2023 US News global list, while the Center for World University Rankings put it 28th globally in 2023.此前各版世界榜单中，学校在 2022 年学术论文世界大学排名中列第 35 位，在 2024 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 102 位，在 2024 年泰晤士高等教育榜单中列第 63 位，在 2023 年 US News 全球排名中列第 63 位；世界大学排名中心 2023 年把它列为全球第 28 位。

• The Washington Monthly 2023 national rankings put the university eleventh in the country and second among public universities, the Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education college rankings of 2022 placed it 58th of 801 American institutions on fifteen performance indicators, and Money.com awarded it five stars out of five in its 2023 best colleges list.《华盛顿月刊》2023 年国内排名把该校列为全国第 11 位、公立大学第 2 位；《华尔街日报》与泰晤士高等教育 2022 年的美国大学排名依据十五项绩效指标，把它列在 801 所美国院校中的第 58 位；Money.com 2023 年的最佳大学榜单给它五颗星满评。

• As of October 2026 twenty-three Nobel laureates, two Fields medalists and one Turing Award recipient have been affiliated with Madison as alumni, faculty or researchers, and the university has also produced forty-three Pulitzer Prize winners, twenty MacArthur Fellows, 828 Fulbright Scholars, thirty-two Rhodes Scholarships, twenty-two Marshall Scholarships, twenty-five Truman Scholarships, six Churchill Scholarships and one Mitchell Scholarship.截至 2026 年 10 月，已有 23 位诺贝尔奖得主、2 位菲尔兹奖得主和 1 位图灵奖得主以校友、教师或研究人员身份与麦迪逊关联；学校还培养出 43 位普利策奖得主、20 位麦克阿瑟学者、828 名富布赖特学者，以及 32 项罗德奖学金、22 项马歇尔奖学金、25 项杜鲁门奖学金、6 项丘吉尔奖学金和 1 项米切尔奖学金得主。

• In the OpenAlex database the Madison campus is registered under the identifier I135310074 with 392,183 works and 46,895,161 citations, a scale of recorded output that places it among the most productive individual universities in the world and helps explain its consistently high position in research-intensive rankings.在 OpenAlex 数据库中，麦迪逊校区的机构标识为 I135310074，收录作品 392,183 篇、被引 46,895,161 次；这一收录产出规模使该校跻身全球单所高校中最富产出者之列，也解释了它在研究型大学排名中一贯靠前的位置。

• The university ranked fifth among United States institutions for research expenditure in 2024 and its endowment stood at 4.92 billion dollars in 2025, while two of the Nobel laureates associated with the campus, the biochemist Har Gobind Khorana and the virologist Howard Temin, both carried out the work for which they were honoured in laboratories at Madison.2024 年该校科研经费支出在全美高校中排名第五，2025 年捐赠基金为 49.2 亿美元；与该校区相关的两位诺贝尔奖得主中，生物化学家哈·戈宾德·科拉纳与病毒学家霍华德·特明，其获奖成果都是在麦迪逊的实验室中完成的。

• About 843 alumni serve as chief executives and nearly 16,000 hold executive management posts, and as of November 2018 the chief executives of fourteen Fortune 500 companies had attended Madison, more than any other American university, while the university counted more than 500,000 living graduates in 2025.约有 843 名校友担任首席执行官，近 16,000 人担任高管职位；截至 2018 年 11 月，《财富》世界五百强公司中有十四家公司的首席执行官出自麦迪逊，这一数量居全美高校之首；到 2025 年，学校在世校友已超过 50 万人。

Student life

• The university motto is the Latin phrase Numen Lumen, translated as the divine within the universe, however manifested, is my light, a formulation drawn from the seal of the state that has framed the institution's self-image since its earliest decades.校训是拉丁语「Numen Lumen」，英译为「宇宙中显现的神圣之光，即是我的光」；这一表述取自威斯康星州州徽，自建校初期起就框定了学校的自我形象。

• More than eight hundred student organisations and clubs register with the office for student organisations, leadership and involvement every year, and the campus also carries fraternities and sororities, religious groups such as Athletes in Action, Chi Alpha Campus Ministries, the Christian Legal Society, Hillel and Chabad, and student vehicle teams competing in formula car, Baja and human powered vehicle events.每年有八百多个学生组织与社团在学生组织、领导力与参与事务办公室注册；校园内还有兄弟会与姐妹会、宗教团体如扶轮式运动员传教会、校园传道会、基督法律学会、犹太学生社团等，以及参加方程式赛车、越野车与人力车项目的学生车队。

• More than twenty residence halls are divided between the Lakeshore neighbourhood, where thirteen halls and four dining markets lie against Lake Mendota, and the Southeast neighbourhood, where eight halls and two dining markets sit near downtown, the two sides being friendly rivals whose students meet each winter for a snowball fight on Bascom Hill, and in May 2012 the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin passed a resolution allowing a hall to use the name Dejope, a Ho-Chunk term for the Four Lakes.二十余栋宿舍分布在两个片区：湖滨区临门多塔湖有十三栋宿舍与四个餐饮市场，东南区靠近市中心有八栋宿舍与两个餐饮市场；两个片区彼此较劲，每年冬天在巴斯科姆山打雪仗。2012 年 5 月，威斯康星州霍丘克民族通过决议，允许一栋宿舍使用「Dejope」之名——这是霍丘克语中「四湖」的写法。

• The mascot is Bucky Badger, a buckingham U. Badger named in a 1949 contest after Art Evans had drawn the recognisable caricature in 1940, an earlier live badger having been tried from 1890, and the most-played rivalry in first division football is with the Minnesota Golden Gophers for Paul Bunyan's Axe, while the crowd at Camp Randall jumps to Jump Around before every fourth quarter and the marching band plays the Fifth Quarter afterwards.校吉祥物是獾队形象 Bucky Badger，1949 年的一次命名比赛为它定下了「白金汉·U·獾」这个名字，而今天人们熟悉的面孔出自艺术家阿特·埃文斯 1940 年绘制的漫画，校方在 1890 年前后曾短暂试过一只活獾。橄榄球方面，与明尼苏达金蛙队争夺保罗·邦汉之斧的比赛是第一级别中交手最多的一组对决；坎普·兰德尔球场的主队在每场比赛第四节前都会随着《Jump Around》一起跳跃，赛后则由行军乐队演奏「第五节」。

• The Wisconsin Badgers compete in twenty-five intercollegiate sports in the first division of the NCAA, mainly in the Big Ten Conference, and have won thirty-one national championships, including the only national title in football, awarded for 1942 by the Helms Athletic Foundation, the 1941 NCAA basketball championship, and six men's ice hockey titles in 1973, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1990 and 2006.威斯康星獾队在 NCAA 第一级别的二十五个校际项目中参赛，主要属于十大联盟，已赢得三十一项全国冠军，其中包括由赫尔姆斯体育基金会授予的唯一一次橄榄球全国冠军（1942 年）、1941 年的 NCAA 篮球冠军，以及 1973、1977、1981、1983、1990 和 2006 年的六次男子冰球冠军。

• The university is the only one in the United States with two daily student newspapers, The Daily Cardinal of 1892 and The Badger Herald of 1969, it was where The Onion was founded by two undergraduates in 1988 before the paper moved to New York in 2001, and its radio station WSUM on 91.7 FM began as a webcast in 1997 and went out over the airwaves on 22 February 2002 with about two hundred volunteer presenters.学校是美国唯一拥有两份日报型学生报纸的高校，即 1892 年创刊的《每日红雀报》与 1969 年创刊的《獾子先驱报》。《洋葱》漫画报由两名本科生于 1988 年在此创办，2001 年迁往纽约；校园电台 WSUM（91.7 兆赫）1997 年以网络广播起步，2002 年 2 月 22 日正式发射，目前有约两百名志愿主持人。

• In September 2024 sixty-two per cent of the student body was white, ten per cent were foreign nationals, ten per cent Asian, eight per cent Hispanic, seven per cent other and two per cent black, and fifteen per cent received a federal Pell grant, so that the campus is predominantly white and comparatively affluent while still recruiting heavily from families dependent on federal assistance.2024 年 9 月，学生群体中白人占 62%，外国籍学生占 10%，亚裔占 10%，西班牙裔占 8%，其他族裔占 7%，非裔占 2%，另有 15% 的学生领取了联邦助学金。这份结构显示校园以白人学生为主、家庭经济条件相对宽裕，同时仍大量招收依赖联邦资助的学生。

Notable people

• Nelson Dewey, the first governor of the state of Wisconsin, signed the founding act of 26 July 1848 and is counted as the founder of the university, while the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature had already incorporated a territorial university in 1838 and appointed the board of visitors that later became the board of regents.威斯康星州首任州长纳尔逊·杜威于 1848 年 7 月 26 日签署了建校法案，被视为威斯康星大学的创办人；早在 1838 年，威斯康星领地立法机构就已设立领地大学并任命了督导委员会，该委员会正是后来校董事会的前身。

• John Hiram Lathrop, who became the first chancellor in 1849, and John Whelan Sterling, the first professor of mathematics, opened the first classes at the Madison Female Academy on 5 February 1849 with seventeen students, and Lathrop is credited with the choice of the lakeside site on which the permanent campus was later built.1849 年出任首任校长的约翰·海拉姆·拉思罗普，与首任数学教授约翰·惠兰·斯特林，于 1849 年 2 月 5 日在麦迪逊女子学院带领 17 名学生开课；永久校址在湖滨的选址，一般也被认为出自拉思罗普之手。

• Richard T. Ely, who held the chair of economics, political science and history at Madison from 1892, became the emblem of academic freedom when the attempt to dismiss him in 1894 failed, and his Wisconsin school of political economy trained generations of American economists before the First World War reshaped the discipline.理查德·伊利自 1892 年起在麦迪逊主持经济学、政治学与历史学系，1894 年学校试图解职他未果，使其成为学术自由的标志性人物；他创立的威斯康星学派政治经济学在第一次世界大战重塑该学科格局之前，培养了数代美国经济学家。

• Charles R. Van Hise received the university's first doctorate in 1892, became its president, and in 1904 set out the Wisconsin Idea in the sentence that the beneficent influence of the university should reach every home in the state, a formulation that still organises the university's research and extension work.查尔斯·R·范海思于 1892 年获得学校颁发的首个博士学位，后来出任校长，并在 1904 年以「大学的有益影响应及于州内每一个家庭」这句话提出了「威斯康星理念」；这一提法至今仍统摄着学校的研究与推广工作。

• Stephen Moulton Babcock, professor of agricultural chemistry, and his student Edwin B. Hart ran the single-grain experiment from 1907 to 1911 with a single cow, a limited ration and a team of careful record keepers, and their demonstration that one ration could sustain a cow and support her offspring laid the basis of scientific nutrition and of modern dairy practice.农业化学教授斯蒂芬·莫尔顿·巴布科克与学生埃德温·B·哈特，在 1907 至 1911 年间用一头奶牛、一份限量日粮与一支细致的记录团队完成了「单一谷物实验」，证明单一日粮足以维持一头奶牛并哺育其后代，这为科学营养学与现代奶牛养殖业奠定了基础。

• Elmer V. McCollum and Marguerite Davis isolated vitamin A in 1913 and vitamin B in 1916, Harry Steenbock patented the enrichment of milk with vitamin D in 1923, Karl Paul Link's laboratory developed the anticoagulant Warfarin in the 1940s, and their names survive today in the Steenbock Memorial Library, the Davis family of nutrition researchers and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.埃尔默·麦科勒姆与玛格丽特·戴维斯于 1913 年分离出维生素 A、1916 年分离出维生素 B；哈里·斯廷博克 1923 年取得牛奶添加维生素 D 的专利；卡尔·保罗·林克的实验室在 20 世纪 40 年代研制出抗凝药物华法林。今天，斯廷博克纪念图书馆、戴维斯家族的营养学研究以及威斯康星校友研究基金会，仍延续着这些工作的名号。

• Har Gobind Khorana, who held a chair at Madison, synthesised a gene for the first time chemically and worked out the genetic code, and he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for that work, one of the very few cases in which a university laboratory carried out the decisive experiments.哈·戈宾德·科拉纳曾在麦迪逊任教，他首次完成基因的化学合成并破译了遗传密码，并因此获得 1968 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖；他也是极少数「决定性实验就在大学实验室完成」的案例之一。

• Howard Temin, a member of the Madison faculty, proposed that cancer cells carry an enzyme that copies RNA into DNA, and with his work on reverse transcriptase in 1969 he and David Baltimore shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975, a discovery that explained how retroviruses such as those causing AIDS reproduce.麦迪逊教职人员霍华德·特明提出癌细胞携带一种能把 RNA 复制成 DNA 的酶，他 1969 年关于逆转录酶的研究，使他与同事戴维·巴尔的摩共同获得 1975 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖；这一发现解释了包括艾滋病致病病毒在内的逆转录病毒如何复制。

• Pat Hanrahan, who took both his bachelor and doctoral degrees at Madison, received the ACM Turing Award in 1989 for his work on computer graphics and three Academy Awards for technical achievement, and he was also one of the three founders of Pixar, so that his career links the university's computing tradition to the modern film industry.帕特·汉拉恩在麦迪逊取得学士与博士学位，因计算机图形学工作获 1989 年图灵奖，并三次获得奥斯卡技术成就奖，他还是皮克斯的三位创始人之一；他的职业生涯把这所大学的计算传统与现代电影产业连在了一起。

• James Thomson, a professor at Madison, derived human embryonic stem cell lines in 1998, Aldo Leopold, a professor of wildlife management there, wrote A Sand County Almanac in 1949 and founded modern conservation ethics, and Gloria Ladson-Billings formulated the framework of culturally relevant pedagogy that reshaped teacher education in the United States.麦迪逊教授詹姆斯·汤姆森于 1998 年培育出人类胚胎干细胞系；该校野生动物管理学教授奥尔多·利奥波德 1949 年写成《沙乡年鉴》，奠定了现代保育伦理；格拉迪娅·拉德森-比林斯则提出了文化相关教学法框架，深刻改变了美国的教师教育。

• Among American political alumni the university counts Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States, Lawrence Eagleberger, Secretary of State, Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Wiley Rutledge, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, while foreign alumni include the prime ministers of Singapore, Bhutan and Iraq, the president of Bangladesh and the president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.美国政界校友包括美国副总统迪克·切尼、美国国务卿劳伦斯·伊格尔伯格、美国卫生与公众服务部部长汤米·汤普森，以及美国联邦最高法院大法官威利·拉特利奇；外国校友则包括新加坡、不丹与伊拉克的首相，孟加拉国总统，以及德国联邦宪法法院院长。

• Chinese and Chinese-descended members of the community include Lawrence Wong, who took a bachelor degree at Madison and became prime minister of Singapore, and Huang Pi-twan, who served as a vice-minister of education of Taiwan, and the university's graduates also include Iajuddin Ahmed, president of Bangladesh from 2002 to 2009, and Yeshey Zimba, prime minister of Bhutan from 2004 to 2005.与华人相关的校友包括在麦迪逊取得学士学位、后任新加坡总理的黄循财，以及曾任台湾教育部门政务次长的黄碧端；此外该校毕业生还包括 2002 至 2009 年任孟加拉国总统的亚杰丁·艾哈迈德，以及 2004 至 2005 年任不丹首相的耶西·津巴。