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Contact: Melissa Malott, Water Program Director, 608.251.7020 ext. 13 Agency Seeks More Thorough Review of Alternatives to Diversion Madison, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) returned Waukesha’s application to divert water out of Lake Michigan under the Great Lakes Compact Wednesday, citing deficiencies in the application’s review of alternatives to Great Lakes water. “Waukesha’s application represents the first full-fledged...

CONTACT: Petra Schroeder (608) 265-4868, pschroeder@grad.wisc.edu; Brian Thompson (414) 229-3397, briant@uwmfdn.org Eight hybrid teams of faculty from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have been awarded the first batch of Intercampus Research Incentive grants, awards designed to foster inter-institutional collaboration. The awards, announced today by UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison, total $398,000 and will support a suite of projects...

For more information contact: Cindy Tomlinson, Associate Manager – PR TDS Telecommunications Corp. 608-664-4471 / cindy.tomlinson@tdstelecom.com MADISON, Wis. -- Today, TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS®) announces it’s collaborating with Sprint to offer MPLS-VPN (Multi-Protocol Label Switching-Virtual Private Network). A multi-location data service, MPLS-VPN is managed, end-to-end, by TDS to provide businesses with a secure and reliable network anywhere in the U.S. MPLS-VPN allows businesses with...

Contact: Lisa Murray, WiSys lmurray@wisys.org (608) 263-2819 Event offers networking opportunities for researchers, entrepreneurs, investors The 3rd Annual Wisconsin Science & Technology Symposium will take place July 22 and 23 at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. This event brings together 150 to 200 science and technology researchers, clinicians and representatives from the public sector and industry to share ideas and spark new collaborations. The...

For more information, contact: Abbey Eisenlauer (414) 287-9485 aeisenlauer@gklaw.com Milwaukee, Wisconsin (June 9, 2010). Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. is pleased to announce that shareholder David G. Peterson was elected to the Board of Directors of the Milwaukee Bar Association. Peterson was honored at the Milwaukee Bar Association’s Annual Meeting on...

By Kay Nolan For WisBusiness MILWAUKEE -- Entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs are nothing if not brave, so they packed a workshop on “killer mistakes” at Tuesday’s Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Conference – bracing to hear how things can go wrong. Apparently, a lot can, and does, go wrong. But the four speakers, all local entrepreneurs, some of whom work with start-up businesses as...