Wisconsin Security Research Consortium: Companies should apply now to showcase ideas to feds during ‘Skunk Works Olympics’
Early stage companies in Wisconsin and beyond will have an opportunity to make presentations and meet with key people from federal agencies during the Aug. 11 Skunk Works Olympics during the fourth annual Resource Rendezvous.
The conference, produced by the Wisconsin Security Research Consortium, the Wisconsin Technology Council and the UW-Madison College of Engineering, will be held 8:30 a.m....
Wisconsin Community Bank: Names new senior vice president of business banking
Mike Weber will be located at the Madison Office on Mineral Point Road
MADISON, Wis. – July 16, 2010 – Wisconsin Community Bank today announced the hiring of Mike Weber as its Senior Vice President of Business Banking.
Weber has 13 years of banking experience in Madison and the surrounding communities. He will primarily create new and cultivate existing banking relationships...
UW-Madison: Global grassroots lake science network has roots in Wisconsin
CONTACT: Timothy Kratz, 715-356-9494, tkkratz@wisc.edu; Paul Hanson, 608-262-5953, pchanson@wisc.edu (both sources prefer e-mail for first contact)
MADISON - Inspired and led by freshwater scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researchers eager to understand global ecosystems from end to end are now monitoring a series of buoys in lakes on every continent except Africa. Each buoy carries instruments to...
UW-Madison: ‘Condor’ brings genome assembly down to earth
CONTACT: Todd Tannenbaum, 608-263-7132, tannenba@cs.wisc.edu; Mihai Pop, 301-405-7245, mpop@umiacs.umd.edu
MADISON - Borrowing computing power from idle sources will help geneticists sidestep the multimillion-dollar cost of reconstituting the flood of data produced by next-generation genome-sequencing machines.
A team of computer scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Maryland recently assembled a full human genome from millions of pieces of...
UW-Madison: Screen yields drugs that could help treat fatal brain disorder
CONTACT: Albee Messing, 608-263-9191, messing@waisman.wisc.edu
MADISON - Using novel screens to sort through libraries of drugs already approved for use in human patients, a team of Wisconsin researchers has identified several compounds that could be used to treat a rare and deadly neurological disorder.
The new study, published online in the current (July 2010) issue of the journal Human Molecular Genetics...
AG Van Hollen: Sues to protect Great Lakes
Van Hollen’s action seeks immediate barrier, block and poison to stop carp
For More Information Contact:
Bill Cosh 608/266-1221
MADISON – Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today that the Wisconsin Department of Justice, on behalf of the State of Wisconsin has filed a Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief in the United States District...
Cher-Make: Announces “Big Hit” recipe contest
CONTACT:
Tom Chermak
President
Cher-Make Sausage Company
2915 Calumet Ave.
Manitowoc, WI 54220
(800) 242-7679
tomc@cher-make.com
Manitowoc, Wisconsin – (July 19, 2010) – Do you have a recipe that is a “Big Hit” at your family and friend get togethers…the dish that everyone just has to get the recipe for? The Cher-Make Sausage Company wants to share your “Big Hit” recipe with other Wisconsin Authentic Sausage...
USDA Rural Development: Offers 100-percent financing for Wisconsin homebuyers
Phone: 715-524-8522 E-mail: RD.Shawano@wi.usda.gov
SHAWANO, WI -- Thinking of buying a home? Now may be the time. Many people who never thought they could own a home may now have an opportunity through the USDA Direct Loan Program.
USDA Rural Development offers home loans with no down payment and low interest rates for qualifying applicants in rural...
