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GWC Technologies Inc is pleased to announce the introduction of dual-channel array imaging for its label-free analysis platform. The dual-channel capability is built on the company’s SPRimager®II array system, which is in use in over a dozen countries for proteomics and bioengineering research. The new system combines an upgraded instrument, the SPRimager®II-D, with a new dual-channel flow cell. The...

Contact: Colleen Clark Bernhardt, Office of Equal Opportunity (608) 266-3022; (608) 576-2239 Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk announced today the county will host the third in a series of seminars intended to help women and minorities interested in starting or improving their own businesses. The business meetings are free and open to all women-owned, and minority small businesses, or...

Quincy Bioscience (Madison, WI) announces that Prevagen® (http://www.prevagen.com), a dietary supplement made with the jellyfish protein apoaequorin, is now available in select GNC stores across the US. Developed within the University Research Park in Madison, Wisconsin, Prevagen is the breakthrough discovery that can protect brain cells and has shown to enhance memory. According to Quincy Bioscience, initial distribution will...

CONTACT: V. Scott Solberg, 608-265-4178, ssolberg@education.wisc.edu MADISON - The Singapore Ministry of Education has awarded a four-year $3.5 million contract to the Center on Education and Work (CEW) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Education for localizing CEW's WISCareers and CareerLocker online career-information systems for use in Singapore schools. "Singapore continues to engage in world-class educational innovations,...

CONTACT: Jeanan Yasiri, 608-335-2980, jyasiric@wisc.edu MADISON - This year's third annual 100-Hour Wiscontrepreneur Challenge has caught the attention of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Entrepreneurialism in Society class. Jeanan Yasiri, a faculty associate in the School of Human Ecology, has added the challenge as a course requirement, encouraging her students to work in small groups. All 130 of her students split...

Contact: Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608/267-9661 Project to create 30 jobs MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle today announced that Marten Transport Services, Ltd., in Mondovi, Buffalo County, will receive $150,000 in Enterprise Development Zone tax credits for an expansion project. “One of my top priorities is to help move industries, companies, and communities forward and create well-paying jobs for our...

Contact: Tony Hozeny, Department of Commerce, 608/267-9661 MADISON – Governor Jim Doyle today announced that Stratatech Corporation in Madison will receive a $500,000 loan from the Department of Commerce. “It’s important we continue to invest in developing technology that will help Wisconsin compete at the high end of the global economy,” Governor Doyle said. “I am pleased we could help...

Contact: Cheryl Van Tessier, PR Specialist 608-467-4408, ctessier@finessepr.net Darin Tessier, Marketing Manager 608-210-2701, darin.tessier@mastergraphics.com MasterAcademy becomes Individual Training Account resource for state job centers MADISON, Wis. — Displaced designers and engineers looking for work may now receive free professional skills training in their fields at MasterGraphics MasterAcademy professional training centers. MasterGraphics has been approved as an Individual Training Account resource, qualified...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- When they are up and running in 20 months, the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery should be a “cauldron of exciting interactions” between researchers, social scientists, artists, educators and the public, former UW-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley says. “Ten years from now, I hope we’ll look back on a lot of great new stuff and say...

U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin Remarks as prepared for delivery Focus on Midwest Energy II Monona Terrace Convention Center, Madison Thank you, all, for being here. I’m delighted to participate again in what I hope is now an annual symposium on energy and the environment. Since we came together last February, our world has changed dramatically. We have lived through an historic election...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – When they are up and running in 20 months, the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery should be a “cauldron of exciting interactions” between researchers, social scientists, artists, educators and the public, former UW-Madison Chancellor John D. Wiley said today. “Ten years from now, I hope we’ll look back on a lot of great new stuff...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – Xcel Energy has filed an application with the state Public Service Commission to install biomass gasification technology in a boiler at its Bay Front Power Plant in Ashland. “This addresses a lot of the things raised in the Governor’s Global Warming Task Force and will displace 100,000 tons of coal and 4,000 tons of...