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Celeste Meyers has been named director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Office of Charter Schools. Robert J. Kattman, who has headed the office since 2001, is retiring at the end of June. UWM’s Office of Charter Schools currently oversees 11 charter schools, independent Milwaukee public schools, which are authorized by the university’s Board of Regents under state legislation....

May 9, 2012 For Immediate Release Contact: Cullen Werwie, 608-267-7303 Commends Winners of Last Year’s Outstanding State Employee Recognition Program Madison–Governor Walker today declared State Employee Recognition Day and used the occasion to commend the winners of last year’s outstanding state employee recognition program. He also announced the program would continue for its second year. “State employees do great work to...

MEDIA CONTACT: Andy Larsen, Boelter + Lincoln PR Phone: 414/271-0101 Ext. 119 Cell: 414/840-0891 E-mail: alarsen@boelterlincoln.com MINNEAPOLIS – Boelter + Lincoln’s work for Lakefront Brewery won two Gold Awards in the American Advertising Federation’s regional ADDY Awards competition in Minneapolis and will now move on to the national ADDY competition held in Austin,...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5/10/12 CONTACT: Connie L. Wilson, 608-890-2841, clwilson@wisc.edu MADISON - The campus community is invited to enjoy an evening of great jazz music while supporting campus early childhood care and educational programs for children at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Well-known local jazz singer Jan Wheaton, with the Jan Wheaton Quintet, will perform at the 15th annual Jazzin' benefit from 5-8...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5/10/12 CONTACT: Lawrence Landweber, lhl@cs.wisc.edu MADISON - The decision to put Lawrence Landweber in the "Innovators" circle of the newly-created Internet Hall of Fame is not likely one that cost the nominating committee any sleep. "What's neat about this field is that there is always something new," says Landweber, the University of Wisconsin-Madison emeritus professor of computer sciences. "Everywhere you...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5/10/12 CONTACT: Josh Coon, 608-263-1718, jcoon@chem.wisc.edu MADISON - Josh Coon's work has weight. It's right there in the name: mass spectrometry. It's there in the results, too, enabling science by giving researchers an ever-sharper understanding of the molecules that make up living things. "It greatly broadens the scope of biological questions you can ask," Coon says. And it all comes down...

CONTACT: Esty Dinur, 608-262-3907, edinur@wisc.edu MADISON - In a theater, the ghost light - a naked bulb lamp left onstage while the rest of the lights are dark - has a practical purpose, preventing people from tripping or fumbling in the night. Some traditions, however, hold that the presence of a ghost light appeases the ghosts, real or imagined,...

Contact: Kristin Ruesch or Matthew Pagel, 608-266-9600 Kristin.Ruesch@Wisconsin.gov or Matt.Pagel@Wisconsin.gov MADISON, WI - Citing the need for local and regional transmission reliability and affordability, the Public Service Commission today voted to grant preliminary approval for a roughly 48-mile, 345 kilovolt (kV) transmission line from Alma to Holmen. Commission Chairperson Phil Montgomery and Commissioners Eric Callisto and Ellen Nowak unanimously agreed regional benefits...

Contact: Ellen Foley, 608-444-7065, ellen@rippekeane.com Rippe Keane Marketing announced that Ellen Foley will work with the full-service marketing firm as a senior communications strategist. Foley, former editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin State Journal and leader of the successful $134 million Madison College referendum in 2010, is president of the Foley Media Group, a consulting firm that focuses on strategic communications, crisis communications, reputation...