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Depere, WI – Rick Groeschl, a local Senior Financial Planner and registered representative with Groeschl Strategic Wealth Management Group an office of MetLife, was recently recognized by MetLife Securities for his achievements in the investment industry. Groeschl was named to the MetLife Inner Circle program; which recognizes excellence in the areas of client services and investment sales. Groeschl,...

CONTACT: Michele Hilmes, 608-262-2547, mhilmes@facstaff.wisc.edu MADISON - Some 2,000 miles separate Madison and Hollywood's star-making machine, and it's a 1,000-mile journey to New York's Great White Way. Yet Madison is home to more than 240 collections of film, theater, television and radio history and memorabilia - a treasure trove of cultural history held by the Wisconsin Center for Film and...

CONTACT: Jean Heitz, 608-263-2186, jgheitz@wisc.edu MADISON - There's no question that biology is a booming business, even in these down times. During the past 25 years, big advances in the biological sciences have revolutionized health care and agriculture, set a foundation for new kinds of industries, manifest in the clusters of biotech companies that have popped up like mushrooms around university...

CONTACT: Janet Kelly, 608-890-1491, 608-772-2868 (cell), jkelly@warf.org MADISON - Pfizer Inc., a major biopharmaceutical company, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the private, nonprofit patenting and licensing organization for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, announced May 5 that they have signed a license for human embryonic stem (hES) cell patents for the development of new drug therapies. The WARF license provides...

Solution delivers increased productivity and greater efficiency Stokenchurch, U.K. – Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), the oldest printer and publisher in the world, has doubled its pick rate in its UK warehouse and delivered a huge increase in productivity with the help of RedPrairie Corporation, a productivity software provider. Cambridge implemented RedPrairie’s Warehouse Management solution as its existing system was no longer...

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By Erik Gunn For WisBusiness.com The continued downsizing of traditional media, especially newspapers, is being felt everywhere, but one place in particular: shrinking coverage of America's statehouses. Madison isn't immune from what American Journalism Review calls "a staggering loss of reporting firepower at America's state capitols" with the loss of at least three correspondents in recent years writing either for newspapers...