The Ozone Company: Madison-based company offers hospitality venues huge cost savings with green laundry and pool systems
Contact: Heidi Fendos, PR Counsel, 414.778.0766 or heidi@Fendospr.com ...
UW-Madison: Computers – and people – work in parallel at new center
CONTACT: Dan Negrut, 608-890-0914, negrut@wisc.edu
MADISON - A trio of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professors has launched a new high-performance computing center.
With a broad range of industrial and research partnerships, the center will leverage the capabilities of a unique computer cluster and more generally expand access to and applications for supercomputing resources.
The Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Center will...
Madison’s Central Business Improvement District: Downtown Madison family trick or treat Fri. Oct. 29
Madison, Wis. (September 13, 2010)—Enjoy a day of family Halloween fun in Downtown Madison on Friday, October 29, at the Downtown Madison Family Trick or Treat and related events.
Families and children ages 12 and under can trick or treat at participating businesses on State Street and the Capitol Square, on Friday, Oct. 29, from 2:00 to 6:00 pm....
UW-Madison: Time magazine election-year road trip stops in Madison
Contact: Katy Culver, (608) 263-3396, kbculver@wisc.edu
MADISON - Time magazine's Joe Klein will stop Monday, Sept. 13 in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to talk with students and anyone interested in the state's hot races.
The political columnist and blogger is on a four-week road trip across America this election season.
Klein will be on...
Arts Wisconsin: To present 4th annual summit for Wisconsin’s young arts and creative leaders
Contact: Anne Katz, Arts Wisconsin, 608 255 8316 | akatz@artswisconsin.org
What’s Your Journey?: Wisconsin Emerging Arts Leaders 4th Annual Summit
Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 10 am – 4 pm | RedLine Milwaukee, 1422 North 4th Street, Milwaukee Presented by Arts Wisconsin with generous support from RedLine Milwaukee With additional support from the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee, Milwaukee Artists...
USDA: Agriculture Secretary Vilsack announces $2.7 million in funding to help Wisconsin farmers, businesses, and communities
Contact:
Kelly Edwards, (715) 340-1264
STRUM, Wis., Sept. 10, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is providing funding to help Wisconsin farmers and rural small businesses reduce energy consumption, create jobs and promote economic development. He announced nearly $2.7 million in loans and grants through USDA Rural Development’s Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) and three...
AG Van Hollen: Wausau mortgage brokers charged with fraud
For More Information Contact:
Bill Cosh 608/266-1221
WAUSAU - Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today that the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) and Marathon County District Attorney’s Office have charged two Wausau mortgage brokers with fraud related to their roles in a “buy back” real estate scheme. Jay S. Fischer, 40, and...
Wisconsin Quality Home Care Authority: Announces new executive director
Contact: Beth Kaplan
(608) 267-3810
The Wisconsin Quality Home Care Authority (QHCA) Board today announced the hiring of Patti Jo Halbrook Becker as the QHCA Executive Director.
The QHCA is a new independent public authority governed by a board with a majority membership of consumers and their representatives and advocates. The QHCA is charged with improving the availability, quality and choice of...
UW-Madison: Planning moves forward on UW-Madison research animal forums
CONTACT: Eric Sandgren, sandgren@rarc.wisc.edu, 608-890-0795
MADISON - Planning is moving ahead on a series of community forums that aim to provide a window into the use of animals in research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The program was proposed earlier this year by UW-Madison Provost Paul M. DeLuca Jr. and Graduate School Dean Martin Cadwallader with the goal of increasing...
Batzner Pest Management: Announces annual Madagascar Hissing Cockroach race
From: Batzner Pest Management
16948 W. Victor Rd.
New Berlin, WI 53151
Contact: Jerry Batzner or Chris Venuti, 262-797-4160, or Jordan Fox, 414-352-2645
...
Madison Community Foundation: $150,000 Gift for Lake Belle View project
Contact:
Robin Reid, Communications Director
Madison Community Foundation
608-232-1763
rreid@madisoncommunityfoundation.org
http://www.madisoncommuintyfoundation.org
After more than thirty years in the planning stages, the Lake Belle View restoration project recently received a big boost with a $150,000 gift from the Francois Family Foundation.
The Lake Belle View restoration project is a $4 million initiative to restore the ecology and recreational elements of the waterway in Belleville, Wisconsin. Madison...
UW-Stevens Point: Five Wisconsin educators travel to Taiwan to share energy education curriculum
University Relations and Communications, 715-346-3046, Fax 715-346-2042, http://www.uwsp.edu/news
Five Wisconsin teachers and Carrie Ziolkowski, program coordinator for the Wisconsin K-12 Energy Education Program (KEEP) at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, recently returned from a professional exchange in Taiwan where they led portions of energy education workshops in three different Taiwanese counties.
At each of the workshops Ziolkowski presented on the philosophy...
Foley & Lardner: Roberta F. Howell elected president of the Western Wisconsin Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
We are pleased to announce that Roberta F. (Bobbi) Howell, partner in the Madison office of Foley & Lardner LLP, has been elected president of the Western Wisconsin Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). JDRF is the worldwide leader for research to cure type 1 diabetes and is the largest charitable funder and advocate of diabetes science...
AG Van Hollen: Wins precedential decision — Feds to leave tobacco monies for Wisconsin’s benefit
For More Information Contact:
Bill Cosh 608/266-1221
MADISON - A federal court in Virginia has ruled in favor of the State of Wisconsin in a dispute with the federal government over who has the right to certain funds of a defunct tobacco company. Federal Judge James P. Jones ruled that it was improper...
