24 UW-Madison Firsts
In 1926, the UW launched the nation’s first university dance program. UW.UWArchives.ch05072207.bib
| 1875 | Nation’s first Scandinavian studies department |
| 1890 | First test of butterfat content in milk |
| 1910 | Country’s first genetics department |
| 1913 | Discovery of vitamin A |
| 1916 | Discovery of vitamin B |
| 1919 | Oldest educational radio station |
| 1924 | Discovery of method to enrich food with vitamin D |
| 1926 | First university dance program |
| 1933 | Synthesis of blood-thinner dicumarol, paving way for warfarin |
| 1930s | Discovery of methods to iodize salt |
| 1936 | First university artist-in-residence program |
| 1939 | First university department of wildlife management |
| 1959 | First space-based weather camera |
| 1966 | First poverty-research center |
| 1968 | First bone marrow transplant |
| 1968 | First graduate program in arts administration |
| 1970 | Creation of the first synthetic gene |
| 1987 | Development of Wisconsin Solution, used in transplant surgery |
| 1998 | First cultivation of embryonic stem cells in a lab |
| 2005 | First National Stem Cell Bank |
| 2007 | First human skin cells genetically reprogrammed to create cells indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells |
| 2007 | First “naming gift” given to a U.S. business school to preserve its name |
| 2014 | First endowed fellowship in feminist biology |
| 2014 | First master’s program in energy conservation |
Published in the Winter 2017 issue
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