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Contact: Casey Langan, Director of Public Relations, 608-295-6001 WISCONSIN DELLS – Governor-elect Scott Walker will address members of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation at 6 p.m. on Sunday, December 5 at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells. Walker will be sworn in as Wisconsin’s next governor on January 3. His 6 p.m....

Contact: Teresa Weidemann-Smith, (608) 266-9600 Also a minor change and addition made to earlier announced Regions 2 and 4 MADISON - The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC) today named another four Regional Planning Teams to assist in the broadband planning efforts currently underway statewide, in connection with funding Wisconsin has received through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the...

126,565 residents stand to lose support; 11,165 jobs at stake WASHINGTON—Failure by Congress to act on extending unemployment benefits will have stark consequences for Wisconsin residents, according to a new report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Over the course of the next year, nearly seven million workers across the country – including 126,565 in Wisconsin...

Contact: Jennifer Sereno, WARF, 608-890-1622 or 770-8084, jsereno@warf.org; Janet Kelly, WARF, jkelly@warf.org, 608-890-1491 or 772-2868; Chris Barncard, University Communications, 608-890-0465, barncard@wisc.edu MADISON - Twin research institutes and a space designed for all to engage in science opened Thursday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The mission shared by the three partners in the new facility, intended to become a destination...

Contact: Joshua Morby 414.791.9120 Green Bay, Wis. – As NASCAR debuts the use of E15 at three national touring series events during the 2011 season, the Wisconsin Bio Industry Alliance (WBIA) teamed up with Growth Energy to promote the change at Lambeau Field on Thursday. The event provided a webcast of a simultaneous press conference in Las Vegas, during which...

Contact: Bill Bessette (608) 246-6127 Madison Area Technical College chemistry and engineering instructor Dr. Ken Walz is among a select group of experts invited to participate in a National Summit on Energy Technician Education. The summit, which is being held December 8-10 in Washington, D.C., will provide recommendations to the National Science Foundation on the future directions of energy technician education...

CONTACT: TOM EGGERT, 608.267.2761 Neenah, WI December 8th, 2010– The WI Sustainable Business Council is offering media outlets in Wisconsin unique access to some of the state’s leading experts in sustainability. Manufactures, educators and business professionals will gather December 8th 2010 at Miron Construction in Neenah Wisconsin for the one day Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council 3rd Annual Conference: Businesses exchanging pragmatic...

Design Structures, LLC was hired by Lindblad Construction of Joliet, IL to manage the construction of two 15,000 square foot facilities for The Dow AgroSciences - Mycogen Seed Research Field Station in Arlington, WI. The scheduled completion date of the project is Spring of 2011. Design Structures, LLC is a design - build general contractor with offices...

MILWAUKEE (December 2, 2010) – Metrix, the field service software company, today announced the availability of four new portal solutions. The easy-to-use web apps are already helping Metrix customers transform their service delivery processes, extending their IT systems beyond the company walls and leveraging the latest CRM technologies. Each Metrix Service Portal is designed to meet the needs of a...

Contact: Laura Smith, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 Public-Private Partnership Launches a New Chapter in Wisconsin’s Bioscience Leadership MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle today celebrated the grand opening of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Governor Doyle first proposed the Institutes for Discovery in 2004 as part of an overall statewide strategy to cement Wisconsin’s status...

By Brian E. Clark For WisBusiness.com Sangtae Kim knows a thing or two about technology transfer, having worked as a UW-Madison and Purdue University scientist, a drug company executive and an official with the prestigious National Science Foundation. So he’s an excellent choice to lead the Morgridge Institute for Research, the private half of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. The $210...

A recent report by The Solar Foundation ranked Wisconsin fifth in the nation in solar jobs. Many of those estimated 6,000 jobs are in manufacturing of solar components, which seems to fit the state’s emphasis, according to the foundation's director. “Manufacturing always has been an important part of Wisconsin’s economy,” said Andrea Luecke, who is well acquainted with the state. She...