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The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded when Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848, UW–Madison is the official state university of Wisconsin, and the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System.... It was the first university established in Wisconsin and remains the oldest and largest university in the state. It became a land-grant institution in 1866. The 933-acre main campus includes four National Historic Landmarks. UW–Madison is organized into 20 schools which enrolled 29,153 undergraduate, 8,710 graduate, and 2,570 professional students and granted 6,040 bachelor's, 3,328 graduate and professional degrees in 2008. The university employs 2,054 faculty members. Its comprehensive academic program offers 135 undergraduate majors, along with 151 master's degree programs and 107 doctoral programs. The UW is categorized as an RU/VH Research University in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
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Marinette is a city in and the county seat of Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 10,968 at the 2010 census. Marinette is the principal city of the Marinette, WI–MI Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Marinette County, Wisconsin and Menominee... County, Michigan. Marinette sits on the bay of Green Bay, to the north is the Menominee River, and in between is Stephenson Island. It is about 50 miles north of Green Bay, Wisconsin. The name Marinette comes from the name of an early fur-trader's common-law wife, Marie Antoinette Chevalier . She was a French and Native American woman who ran a trading post located near the mouth of the Menominee River and came to be known as "Queen Marinette." After her death, she was buried in Allouez, but was reinterred in a sarcophagus at the Forest Home Mausoleum in Marinette in 1987. Her original tombstone is on display at the museum on Stephenson Island in Marinette. Marinette was first settled by a small Algonquin tribe, known as "the wild rice people." The Algonquin tribe was a group of men approximately consisting of forty to eighty men.
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