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Contact: Brad Taylor, 608-441-2765, bradleyftaylor@hotmail.com MADISON - The Wisconsin Center for Education Products and Services (WCEPS) has tapped Matt Messinger as the organization's first executive director. Created by friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison earlier this year, WCEPS will help license and market intellectual property in the field of education created by faculty and staff at the university. Messinger's...

Contact: Jeff Schwister, GCOW Executive Director (414) 443-3568 jeffs@gcow.org “Your Source for Wisconsin Golf” The Golf House of Wisconsin has launched a new web page at http://www.wisconsin4golf.com or http://www.wisgolf.org. The purpose of the new web page is to be a one-stop portal for consumers to go to when pursuing anything golf related in the state! Established in 2007, the Golf House of Wisconsin has...

CONTACT: Val Davis, 608-890-3079, vadavis2@wisc.edu MADISON - Sleeping in is not in the cards for more than 350 middle school students from Madison and Wisconsin tribal school districts who are serious about earning admission to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Instead, the Precollege Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) offers 27 summer morning workshops designed to explore college degree and...

Contact: Bill Bessette (608) 246-6127 Madison Area Technical College information technology instructor Andy Czerkas and his wife Jenny, a Madison College graduate, received the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis award at the recent national Jefferson Awards in Washington, D.C. Andy and Jenny founded The River Food Pantry in Madison about ten years ago. The pantry provides hot meals, groceries, clothing and household items...

For More Information Contact: Bill Cosh 608/266-1221 WINNECONNE – Winneconne contractor Radtke Contractors, Inc., has been ordered to restore the lakeshore and to pay $60,000 in forfeitures, assessments, costs and fees for illegally placing a seawall and riprap below the ordinary high-water mark in Lake Butte Des Morts, and for unlawful grading and failure to follow best...

Contact: Bill Bessette (608) 246-6127 Interested in a career in the building trades? Madison Area Technical College is hosting a Construction Trade Fair from 3 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June 28 in the Truax campus cafeteria, 3550 Anderson Street. Eric Cobb, executive director of the Buildings and Construction Trades Council of South Central Wisconsin, will be among those talking about...

Contact: Alan Tamm, Levee Safety Program Manager: (309) 794-5165, Alan.Tamm@usace.army.mil Ron Fournier, Corporate Communications: (309) 794-5274, Ronald.F.Fournier@usace.army.mil Rock Island, Ill. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, has completed comprehensive safety inspections of 14 federally authorized, non-federally operated and maintained flood damage reduction systems protecting communities along more than 132 miles of the Illinois, Upper Mississippi, Des Moines and...

Amid economic challenges to the paper industry and pressures on family resources for education, a northeast Wisconsin paper manufacturer has bolstered scholarship opportunities at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point for future paper science engineers. ST Paper LLC, a tissue producer in Oconto Falls, has given the UW-Stevens Point Paper Science Foundation a $20,000 gift, half of which will be used...

CONTACT: Martha Querin-Schultz, 608-262-3466, querinschultz@studentlife.wisc.edu MADISON - The Schultz Family Farm in Cottage Grove, Wis., will be the site of the third annual international student farm outing on Sunday, June 26, when the Querin-Schultz family opens its third-generation farm to more than 100 international students and their families. The event will be held in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin-Madison,...

For more information, contact: Emily Friedrich 414-287-9485 efriedrich@gklaw.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MILWAUKEE (June 23, 2011)-- Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. is pleased to announce that attorney shareholder Christine Liu McLaughlin is a 2011 recipient of the Wisconsin Law Journal’s elite Women in the Law award. The Women in the Law award honors extraordinary women attorneys, judges and legal educators based on the following criteria: ...

Contact: Burke O'Neal, Co-owner Office phone: (608) 284-9495, Burke O’Neal cell phone: (608) 217-8774 burke@fullspectrumsolar.com Full Spectrum Solar is pleased to announce that they have received the 2011 Dane County Small Business of the Year Award. Full Spectrum Solar is honored to accept this prestigious award which recognizes successful small businesses in Dane County that have rewarding workplace environments and contribute...

CONTACT: Milo Westler, (608) 263-9599, milo@nmrfam.wisc.edu,; John Markley, (608) 263-9349, markley@nmrfam.wisc.edu, MADISON-Biochemists will gather on the UW-Madison campus for the 35th Steenbock Symposium on June 26-28 to discuss advances in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, a laboratory technique that gives scientists important structural information about biological molecules. The theme of the symposium, hosted by the Biochemistry Department, honors...

Contact: Paula Bonner, (608) 262-0930, pbonner@waastaff.com MADISON - As it celebrates its 150th anniversary, the Wisconsin Alumni Association is giving a gift to change the way alumni, faculty, students and visitors navigate the University of Wisconsin-Madison. WAA is presenting UW-Madison with new street signs to mark key intersections near academic buildings, laboratories and libraries on campus. The new signs will be...

For More Information Contact: Bill Cosh 608/266-1221 Wisconsin to receive $922,494.00 MADISON - Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today that he, along with 37 other state Attorneys General, reached a $40.75 million settlement with GlaxoSmithkline, LLC (GSK) and SB Pharmco Puerto Rico, Inc. (SB Pharmco) arising from alleged substandard manufacturing processes. In a complaint filed today along with the settlement agreement, Attorney...