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Contact: Joshua Wescott, Office of the County Executive (608) 267-8823 or cell (608) 669-5606 Dane County First in State to Fill up County Vehicles with Landfill Gas While prices at the pump continue to climb, Dane County is using new technology to fill-up some of its vehicles for around 20-cents a gallon. County Executive Kathleen Falk announced today the county...

CONTACT: Katy Huff, hacker.within.admin@gmail.com MADISON - For many University of Wisconsin-Madison students, Python is a snake and C++ is just gibberish. But for undergraduate and graduate students working with scientific computation, it's a part of daily life. And The Hacker Within is one student organization that works to educate students and staff on the ins and outs of scientific computing. President Katy...

Media Contact: Monica Adams (414) 430-1321 takebackthelandmadison@gmail.com Formerly homeless community members are renting one side of a duplex that is being foreclosed on by M&I Bank. In an effort to stop the foreclosure process which is set to be finalized on April 26th,, 2011, Take Back the Land-Madison, and community partners held a rally today at the house to demand that M&I Bank...

Innovation and technology officials to lead workshops on research and commercialization strategies MADISON, Wis. — More than 600 entrepreneurs and innovation leaders from around the nation are expected at the Spring 2011 National Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Conference, to be held April 11-13 at Monona Terrace in Madison. The event connects university researchers, private sector...

By Brian Clark For WisBusiness.com Federal officials from as many as 10 agencies are set to attend an April conference in Madison that one entrepreneur says is a good indicator for the Midwest economy. This spring’s national Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) conference is set for April 10-13 at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison....