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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9/20/11 CONTACT: Martha Vukelich-Austin, 608-698-6398, vukausti@gmail.com MADISON - Alumni will make a red-carpet entrance this October as they celebrate University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni and traditions at the Red Tie Gala, the capstone event of the Wisconsin Alumni Association's 150th anniversary. The Red Tie Gala on Friday, Oct. 14, will be an historic moment celebrating the association's century and a...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9/20/11 CONTACT: Douglas Weibel, 608-890-1342, weibel@biochem.wisc.edu, (prefers email for first contact); Hongrui Jiang, 608-265-9418, hongrui@engr.wisc.edu MADISON - Two University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have received the prestigious National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award. Douglas Weibel, an assistant professor of biochemistry and biomedical engineering, studies how bacteria make the cell wall that separates them from the environment....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9/20/11 MADISON - Waclaw Szybalski, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor emeritus of oncology, has a string of scientific achievements that could easily have merited at least one Nobel Prize, and his work has laid foundations for several Nobels won by others. He's mentored a string of highly successful scientists and collaborated for 60 years with the biggest names...

Contact: Steve Lyons, WEA Trust Telephone: (608) 661-6729 E-mail: slyons@weatrust.com Defamatory statements force WEA Trust to take legal action against Mark Belling Madison… The WEA Trust, a Wisconsin-based private group health insurance company, today delivered a legal “cease and desist” demand to conservative talk show host Mark Belling, aired on WISN Radio, for repeatedly accusing...