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For More Information Contact: Bryant Moroder 608-577-1150 The City of Madison's solar program, MadiSUN is hosting a commercial solar guided tour for local businesses and building operators. The May 24th tour, which is free for participants, provides a first hand look at several local installations. Commercial solar customers will be on-hand to talk about their own solar experience as well as solar...

Contact: Wendy Norem Marketing Director Shorewest, Realtors(r) (262) 827-4111, ext. 232 wnorem@shorewest.com Brookfield, Wisconsin. We're pleased to welcome Leslie and Alfred Fellion to the Shorewest, Realtors(r) Racine Office, located at 1557 S. Green Bay Rd., in Racine. With their valuable real estate experience -- combined with the services and benefits of Shorewest, Realtors(r) – they...

Contact: Nkauj (pronounced ‘gow’) Vang 608-224-4591, nkauj.vang@wisconsin.gov MADISON – Small, bright orange or green boxes tied onto trees is just one of the signs that summer is approaching in Wisconsin. The boxes are traps set by trappers hired by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer...

CONTACT: Jeanan Yasiri, yasiri@wisc.edu, 608-335-2980; Beth Mastin, mastin@newroutes.org, 608-236-0674 MADISON - New Routes to Community Health announces the publication of "Immigrant Media Making - New Voices for Community Health." The report outlines how community organizations and those who fund social change can best leverage the power of media making to help improve health in immigrant and other communities with significant health...

Three highly regarded neuroscientists - two Nobel Prize winners and a National Medal of Science winner - will be on campus Thursday, May 19, to discuss their research on brain function and dysfunction at the UW-Madison genetics department's fourth annual Oliver Smithies Symposium. The speakers are: - Eric Kandel, a professor at Columbia University, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize...

CONTACT Mary Murray Wisconsin Institute of CPAs mary@wicpa.org (262) 785-0445 ext. 3005 (800) 772-6939 Brookfield, Wisconsin, May 18, 2011 – Rick J. Taylor, CPA, partner with Wipfli in Milwaukee, Wis. is the recipient of the WICPA Distinguished Career Award. The Distinguished Career Award is given to members who have shown leadership, have made significant contributions to the profession and have outstanding records of service to...

Effort Aimed at Visiting Over 200 Sheboygan County Companies Building upon business retention and expansion successes in 2010, the Sheboygan County Economic Development Corporation (SCEDC) is leading an effort to contact and visit 225 companies throughout Sheboygan County. The SCEDC is proactively reaching out to companies in targeted industry sectors, or companies identified as being prime candidates for...

Convenient Form Factor Measures Travel Times and Vehicle Movements Anonymously MADISON, WI, May 18, 2011 – TrafficCast International, Inc., today announced the release of Mini-BlueTOAD, an advanced traffic monitoring technology in a small form factor that discretely measures travel times, road speeds and route behaviors for road network planning and performance analysis through anonymous detection of Bluetooth™ signals from passing...

Contact: Dennis Byrne (202) 205-6567 Winners to Gather in Washington D.C. During National Small Business Week WASHINGTON – Small Business Person of the Year winners from 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam will converge on Washington, D.C. in mid May 2011, when one of them will be selected as National Small Business Person...