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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) have named Madison Area Technical College’s Dr. Kenneth Walz the 2010 Wisconsin Professor of the Year. Dr. Walz was selected from more than 300 top professors in the United States. The U.S. Professors of the Year program salutes the most outstanding undergraduate...

Contact: Lisa MacKinnon, Project Coordinator, (608) 266-9063 or (608) 335-5193 (cell) Take Action For Cleaner Air on Monday The Dane County Clean Air Coalition (CAC) today announced a Clean Air Action Day for fine particle pollution from 12:01 a.m. through 11:00 p.m. on Monday, November 22nd....

Contact: Bret Shaw, (608) 448-9958, brshaw@wisc.edu MADISON - A recent survey conducted by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers found that the most important motivations for hunters in Wisconsin are spending time outdoors and being close to nature. The survey of Wisconsin hunting and conservation organization members found the following were either "very motivating" or "extremely motivating" reasons for participating in the activity:...

Contact: Darrell Bazzell, 608-263-2497, dbazzell@vc.wisc.edu MADISON - The University of Wisconsin-Madison will close on Friday, Nov. 26, as a mandated furlough day for most of its employees. The unpaid furlough day is one of 16 required of state employees during the 2009-11 budget cycle. In each budget year, university employees must take eight furlough days, four of which are designated campuswide...

CONTACT: John Schaffer, jwschaffer@wisc.edu, 608-263-1900 MADISON - The New York City firm of Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture, in association with Madison, Wis.-based Strang Inc., has been selected by the state of Wisconsin to design the new University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music Performance Center. Representatives from the Division of State Facilities, UW-Madison Office of Facilities Planning and Management, UW System,...

(Madison, WI) Madison Network of Black Professionals, Monona Terrace Convention Center and The Greater Madison Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB) will be hosting the 13th annual Autumn Gathering reception. This year’s event will be Tuesday, November 23th, 2009 from 5pm – 7pm at the Monona Terrace Convention Center. The keynote speaker at this year's gathering is Ismael Ozanne Dane...

Contact : Joshua Morby Mobile : 920.968.4197 Email: media@thenewnorth.com ALGOMA, November 22, 2010 – The Farm Market Kitchen Incubator, a shared-use food processing incubator located in Algoma, Wis. has announced that Nutorious, LLC has been selected as their incubator graduate of the year. Nutorious, located in Green Bay, Wis., was also named as a 2010 International Finalist in...

MADISON, WISCONSIN (11/22/2010) – Wisconsinmade.com, an e-commerce gift store, is pleased to announce that Beltie Beef of Milladore, Wisconsin, has joined our artisan group. Wisconsinmade.com carefully selects only the finest gourmet foods made in Wisconsin and offers them for sale on the Internet. "We are proud to offer organic beef of the highest quality from Beltie Beef. The...

CONTACT: Keith Kluender, 608-262-9884, krkluend@wisc.edu MADISON - Like musical compression saves space on your mp3 player, the human brain has ways of recoding sounds to save precious processing power. To whittle a recording of your favorite song down to a manageable pile of megabytes, computers take advantage of reliable qualities of sounds to reduce the amount of information needed. Collections...

For more information, contact Jeff Bentoff at (414) 791-1215 or jeff@bentoff.com Book Offers Valuable Lessons for Nonprofit Groups in Tough Economic Times Milwaukee (Nov. 8, 2010) – Milwaukee nonprofit consultant and author Steve Zimmerman’s new book, which guides nonprofit groups on how to achieve long-term financial and programmatic success, will be unveiled at a free reception and talk from 5 p.m....

For more information, contact: Jane Carrola, WisDOT Rustic Roads Coordinator (608) 266-0649, jane.carrola@dot.wi.gov Governor Jim Doyle has announced the addition of a new Rustic Road in Wisconsin, bringing the number of Rustic Roads in the state to 109, and the number of miles included in the program to over 609. The newest Rustic Road, R109, also known as North Park Avenue Road,...

For more information, contact: Cheryl Van Tessier, Finesse Public Relations LLC (608) 467-4408, ctessier@finessepr.net Rebecca Gerothanas, Summit Credit Union (608) 243-5000x4700, rebecca.gerothanas@summitcreditunion.com MADISON, Wis. — Barb Attewell, card services specialist at Summit Credit Union’s Sun Prairie branch, celebrates a landmark 30 years with the financial. Barb joined Summit (formerly known as CUNA Credit Union) in 1980 as a teller. ...

For More Information Contact: Bill Cosh 608/266-1221 MADISON — Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced that Wisconsin will join with other states, the federal government and pharmaceutical manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to settle allegations that GSK introduced adulterated drugs into interstate commerce. As a result, the company will pay the states and the federal government...

MADISON - It is the start of the final Antarctic drilling season for IceCube, and as researchers descend on the South Pole, there is additional reason for celebration. The National Science Foundation has signed a five-year, $34.5-million agreement with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to operate the unique IceCube telescope - a cubic kilometer in volume - buried in the...

CONTACT: Judi Murphy, Murphy Associates P: 262-786-7424 F: 262-786-7303 E: judi@marketingwithmurphy.com Brookfield, WI – November 23, 2010 – "Amy & Jackie's GET FIT Challenge" is a real life journey towards optimal health and life-long fitness. Watch Amy & Jackie on Ch. 4's The Morning Blend on Wednesday, November 24th at 9:00 a.m. for their monthly segment. Amy Friese, owner...