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By Tammy McCubbin For WisBusiness.com MILWAUKEE - Jeff Yabuki, president and CEO of Fiserv, Inc., spoke this afternoon about the changing landscape of financial services, saying that “we are seeing a massive shift in the landscape.” Yabuki told a gathering of the Rotary Club of Milwaukee that the shift, “has everything to do with how our future generations are going to...

By WisBusiness Staff Carl E. Gulbrandsen, WARF managing director, told the monthly WisBusiness.com luncheon that the new federal stimulus package is good news for UW-Madison research. “The university is in the sweet spot of the stimulus package,” Gulbrandsen said Monday, singling out projects like the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery being built on campus, and the medical research, bio-energy and green energy...

By Marc Eisen For WisBusiness.com LA CROSSE -- Oh, I’ll admit it. I’m fascinated by the organic farming movement’s odd but compelling mixture of risk-taking entrepreneurialism with radical politics. These are folks who display almost a libertarian notion of self-reliance and suspicion of authority. Yet they still share an unabashed sense of group solidarity and common mission. Feet planted firmly in the...

EAU CLAIRE — A green space located between the current Davies Center and the Phillips Hall parking lot on the south side of lower campus is the preferred site of a new student-funded $48.8 million student center at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Chancellor Brian Levin-Stankevich announced today. In making the selection, Levin-Stankevich considered factors including but not limited to...

Contact: Kristin Settle Zizzo Group Advertising + Public Relations 414-651-2976 kristinsettle@zizzogroup.com MILWAUKEE – March 3, 2009 – BizStarts Milwaukee, Inc. has announced the launch of the 2009 BizLearn College Consortium, aimed at growing the number of entrepreneurial opportunities offered by 20 colleges and universities in the region. Leading business educators from these institutions met today at WE Energies to begin discussing best practices for building...

CONTACT Beth Stafford, bstaff@uwm.edu MILWAUKEE—March is Women’s History Month, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee celebrates with a variety of events on campus. Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. Many take place in the UWM Union, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. For more information, visit http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/WRC/Women_History/. A separate schedule for the Women Without Borders Film Series follows the...