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CONTACT: Sandra Ashford, ashford@epd.engr.wisc.edu, 608-890-2026 MADISON - The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) presented its 2009 International Distance Learning Award to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Master of Engineering in Engine Systems (MEES) program in conjunction with the 2009 National Conference in St. Louis. Since 1987, USDLA has been the world's premier distance-learning association. The USDLA International Awards program honored...

CONTACT: Robert Golden, 608-263-4910, rngolden@wisc.edu MADISON - The Hartwell Foundation has named Laura J. Knoll, associate professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, one of 12 winners of its 2008 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards. The Hartwell Award offers support to each selected investigator for three years at...

Green Bay, WI - April 30, 2009 - After 20 years in business, Pulse Communications has closed. Its last day of operations was March 31. Pulse was a Green Bay based video and interactive production facility that most-recently worked on the Eric Roberts film “Project Solitude”. A core production group from Pulse, roughly half of its employees...

Contact: Joshua Morby 414.791.9120 Popular rock band Guster was in Madison yesterday and is in Milwaukee today visiting campuses and promoting biodiesel as part of their Campus Consciousness Tour. Biodiesel is a renewable fuel which is made right here in Wisconsin. Here are some facts: * Guster is using only biodiesel-powered tour buses...

Contact: Jane Larson 608-224-5005 (office) 608-212-3094 (cell) MADISON--Bags of fresh spinach distributed through a Milwaukee-based food processor are being removed from store shelves in Wisconsin after routine food safety tests of Kleen-Pak brand fresh spinach tested positive for Salmonella, a bacteria that can cause food-borne illness. At this time, there have been no reports of illnesses associated with this product...

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By David Wise WisBusiness.com MILWAUKEE -- Small-business owners expressed frustration today at their inability to access credit despite the government's injection of more than $500 billion into banks so far under the $700 billion TARP program. Representatives from local Wisconsin banks at a Congressional Oversight Panel hearing in Milwaukee noted, however, that they have voluntarily accepted TARP funds and continue to...