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CONTACT: Susan Lampert Smith, ssmith5@uwhealth.org, 608-262-7335 MADISON - Participants in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's long-running Beaver Dam Eye Study have contributed to the discovery of a gene involved in cataracts in both aging humans and in mice. In a paper published July 30 in the online Public Library of Science Genetics journal, an international team of researchers announced that it has...

Dells Raceway Park teamed up with the Armed Forces Saturday night to salute the men and women who have served and are currently serving in the military. The Army National Guard, Marine Corp, Coast Guard Auxiliary, and the Air Force were all on hand with static displays. A special Pledge of Allegiance by Cub Scout Troop 66 started...

Contact: Lisa Kay Peters Development Director Bay Area Humane Society 920-469-3110 x15 fundraising@bayareahumanesociety.com Green Bay, Wisconsin – In an effort to reunite as many lost pets as possible with their owners, the Bay Area Humane Society (BAHS) has been including a microchip identification in every dog and cat adopted for the last three years. Tiny microchips, with unique identification numbers linking pets to their owners,...

New Fitness Club to Open in Fall 2009 Blue Mounds, WI – NCI Construction, Inc., the commercial construction division of JG Development, Inc., a Madison-area based design-materials-build firm, is building the new Snap Fitness facility located at 34 Glaciers Edge Square in Cross Plains. The new facility will be a 3,100 square foot top-of-the-line fitness club; the project is a “build...

Contact: Liz Schrum at 608-442-7557 To learn more: http://www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com BROOKFIELD – Joe Kremer, director of the Wisconsin Angel Network, will discuss trends in the angel investment market – and how those developments may affect entrepreneurs – at the Thursday, Aug. 13 luncheon meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network in Milwaukee. The meeting will be held at Brookfield Suites Hotel and Convention Center,...

CONTACT: Alta Charo, 608-262-5015, racharo@wisc.edu MADISON - University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of law R. Alta Charo has accepted a position as senior adviser in the Office of the Commissioner at the Food and Drug Administration, effective Aug. 30. Charo, who will remain a UW-Madison employee during her one-year tenure, says the FDA "regulates products that represent 25 cents of every dollar...

Contacts: Barbro McGinn, Department of Commerce, 608-261-7713 Carla Vigue, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 Project to create 57 jobs in Sheboygan MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle today announced that Eclipse Manufacturing Co. (Eclipse), Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, will consolidate operations at its Sheboygan facility. ...

Contact: Casey Langan, Director of Public Relations, 608-828-5711 MADISON – “Our organization appreciates U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s concern for the current economic plight of dairy farmers,” says Bill Bruins, president of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation. Today, Secretary Vilsack announced support for dairy farmers by increasing the amount paid for dairy products through...

By Brian E. Clark For WisBusiness.com Wisconsin’s $13 billion tourism industry may be in a slump, but an economics professor says that isn’t surprising considering the overall down economy. That spending generated more than 310,000 jobs and $2 billion in state and local taxes during 2008, according to the Wisconsin Tourism Federation. “We have a 9 percent unemployment rate, and people...

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