Noted: A prime example is the ongoing 90th anniversary celebration of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Founded in 1925 as an independent patent and licensing office for the University of Wisconsin, WARF began with the campus discovery that ultraviolet radiation can produce vitamin D in food. That led to vitamin D milk and the virtual end to rickets, a disease that once scourged millions of children. Today, WARF is the oldest academic tech transfer organization of its kind in the United States and has returned more than $1 billion over time to the UW-Madison campus.
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