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By WisBusiness Staff A new employment outlook survey finds Wisconsin employers planning to follow national hiring trends in the last three months of this year. Milwaukee-based Manpower surveys more than 28,000 U.S. employers to ask about hiring plans. Nationally, 12 percent expect to increase their staff levels while 14 percent expect to reduce payrolls. Sixty-nine percent expect no change in hiring. Here...

Contact: Jason A. Smith, communications director MADISON–The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters is pleased to announce it will webcast the season-opening presentation of the "Wisconsin 2050: Pioneering the Future" Academy Evenings series. For the September 15 "Wisconsin 2050" season opener, Richard Davidson, William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at UW–Madison, will discuss how the...

Full-thickness human skin equivalent exhibits characteristics of native human skin MADISON, Wis. – Stratatech Corp., a privately-held regenerative medicine company, today announced that it will launch its StrataTest® full-thickness human skin model to the European market at EUROTOX 2009, the annual meeting of the Federation of European Toxicologists and the European Societies of Toxicology. This year’s meeting is being...

CONTACT: Shahla Werner Director, Sierra Club - John Muir Chapter (608) 256-0565 or (608) 332-6079 shahla.werner@sierraclub.org Who: Barbara Anderegg, PhD, Instructor, Madison Area Technical College ...

Contact: Linda Abbott 608-826-6215; abbott@chorus.net APPLETON, Wis. – Area manufacturers can learn about high-impact strategies to reduce costs and drive efficiencies through their operations in a series of lean workshops being offered this fall in Appleton. A free information session on the Lean Manufacturing Certificate Series will be held from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at...

Contact: Melissa DiMotto (262) 472-1195 dimottom@uww.edu WHITEWATER ­ The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater will host a two-day meeting of the UW System Board of Regents next week for the first time since 2002. Regents will gather in the James R....

FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Evan N. Zeppos (414) 276-6237 or (414) 491-6610 Milwaukee-based foundry makes positive progress toward restructuring goals * * * Economic uptick strengthens Grede plants in Wauwatosa and Reedsburg MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Grede Foundries, Inc. today announced that a stabilizing economy and cautious customer preparation for a rebound in the manufacturing and automotive industries have led to expanded work and increased employment at...

Media Contact: Janet Arnold-Grych Director of Communications and Marketing Tel: 262-696-3365 Fax: 262-696-3366 E-mail: janet@mranet.org Lawrence P. Moon Named Chairman; Todd Teske Vice Chairman September 3, 2009, Waukesha, Wis. – MRA–The Management Association (MRA) has announced its 2009 - 2010 Board of Directors with Lawrence Moon named as Chairman of the Board and Todd Teske as Vice Chairman. MRA, headquartered in Waukesha,...