Veolia Water: Introduces water impact index as part of first-ever water carbon footprint study
Company and Milwaukee Measure Environmental Impacts of Carbon, Water and Costs
MILWAUKEE, July 19, 2010 – Veolia Water North America (Veolia Water) today unveiled the Water Impact Index, the first indicator enabling a comprehensive assessment of the impact of human activity on water resources. The company also announced what is believed to be the first-ever simultaneous analysis of water...
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...

