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CONTACT: Ben Rodriguez, 608-263-4027, bhrodrig@wisc.edu MADISON - Students interested in the Kauffman Entrepreneurship Community Internship Program (KECIP), an innovative opportunity for students to become social entrepreneurs, are invited to attend an informational session on Wednesday, March 11. The session, scheduled from 3:30-4:30 p.m. at the Memorial Union (see Today in the Union), will provide important guidance for those who intend to...

CONTACT: Dian Land, 608-261-1034, dj.land@hosp.wisc.edu MADISON-Last December, when Siavash Sarlati responded to President-elect Barack Obama's national challenge and organized an informal health care reform discussion group in his father's Milwaukee home, he never dreamed it would turn into a trip to the White House. But that's where the University of Wisconsin-Madison medical student found himself on March 5. Only Sarlati...

Contact: Carla Vigue, Office of the Governor, 608-261-2162 MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s plans to sign an Executive Order that lifts restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. “President Obama’s commitment to lifting the restrictions on stem cell science is a great step forward, and I want to thank him for...

By Brian E. Clark For WisBusiness.com The Badger State's credit unions are riding out the current economic storm remarkably well, according to the head of Wisconsin Credit Union League who declared his institutions "safe, sound and ready to lend." Brett Thompson, president and CEO of the League, said Wisconsin credit unions are in good shape because they stayed away...

By John Berthelsen Recently there has been an increasing amount of publicity regarding the environmental impact of printing and the use of paper products. It has become increasingly popular to promote the idea that it is bad to be using paper and printed products. Campaigns are waged to “save a tree” by stopping the use of direct mail or printed...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- In February, the national unemployment rate climbed from 7.6 to 8.1 percent, the highest rate in over 25 years. Since the recession began in December 2007, job losses have totaled 4.4 million, well more than half of which occurred in the past 4 months. Read the latest statement from the commissioner of the federal...

By Tracy Will WisBusiness.com In the new edition of the Federal Reserve's Beige Book, the Fed's assessment of U.S. economic activity remains bearish, and the Chicago branch said "the expectation of most contacts was for economic activity to remain weak into late 2009 before slowly beginning to recover in 2010." Across several economic sectors, reports from finance, industrial manufacturing, tourism, housing, and...