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Media Contact: Linda Funk Flavorful Insight, (866) 430-2590 lfunk@flavorfulinsight.com Waterloo, WI—Valentine’s Day is a time for celebrating with the foods of romance. Traditional romantic foods include chocolate and liquor. Other foods of romance are luxury items with an appealing texture, such as Crave Brothers rich and creamy award-winning Mascarpone...

CHICAGO, January 19, 2011 – Baird Private Equity, the global private equity group of Robert W. Baird & Co. (Baird), is pleased to announce the promotions of James Pavlik, Benedict Rocchio and Aaron Rudberg, effective January 1. Pavlik and Rocchio were each promoted from Principal to Partner with Baird Venture Partners (BVP), the U.S.-based venture fund of Baird Private...

Contact: Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608/267-9661 MADISON---Nearly 90 percent of the exporters using services from the Bureau of Export Development in the Department of Commerce (Commerce) reported they were very satisfied or satisfied with the help they received, Commerce Secretary Paul Jadin announced today. “In today’s economic landscape, companies must adopt a global strategy to achieve long-term growth,” said...

CONTACT: Melissa Anderson, 608-262-9213, mkanderson@bus.wisc.edu MADISON - Thirteen students from around the world have converged at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to be part of a one-of-a-kind experience as the inaugural class of the Wisconsin Real Estate Program's Global Real Estate Master's program (GREM). To provide a real estate education that transcends borders, the GREM program partners the specific real estate...

CONTACT: Ed Jesse, 608-262-6348, evjesse@wisc.edu MADISON - Things couldn't have gone better for Wisconsin corn and soybean producers in 2010. For milk producers, they went a lot better than they did a year ago, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural economists in their 2011 Status of Wisconsin Agriculture report. "For Wisconsin corn and soybean producers, 2010 was a fabulous year in...

CONTACT: Faramarz Vakili, fvakili@fpm.wisc.edu, 608-265-2757 MADISON - In a season traditionally devoted to reflection and new beginnings, a campus program is celebrating its successes and looking ahead to new goals. We Conserve (http://conserve.wisc.edu), an environmental stewardship program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, pledged in 2006 to reduce campus energy use and environmental footprint by 20 percent by 2010. Program director Faramarz...

Win Great Prizes! Tradeshows! FREE Lunch & Dinner! Music by Mt. Olive! DATE: Thursday January 20, 2011 TIME: 11 am - 8 pm LOCATION: W238 N1777 Rockwood Dr, Pewaukee Just off I-94 in Pewaukee off Rockwood Drive MAP SCHEDULE: Tradeshows: 11-1 & 4-6 Lunch: 11-1 FREE Seminars: 12:30-2:30 & 2:30-4:30 Dinner: 4-6 Live Music by Mt. Olive: 6-8 For more information on the FREE Seminars visit...

MILWAUKEE – A $2.6 million gift from Lynde Uihlein will support a new Center for Water Policy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), university officials announced today. The gift will fund an endowed chair and director for the planned Center, which will be part of the new graduate-level School of Freshwater Sciences. Recruitment for the endowed chair and center director will...

For More Information Contact: Bill Cosh 608/266-1221 MADISON — This afternoon federal judge Hon. Roger Vinson issued an order granting the request of Wisconsin and five other states to join the legal challenge to the federal health care law that is pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District...