UW-Madison: Student’s vision comes to life in Honduras
CONTACT: Sam Dennis, 608-263-7699, sfdennisjr@wisc.edu; Curt Staats, 608-274-3636, staats@wisc.edu
MADISON - One of the failings of university learning is that the work of students is often left on the shelf. Assignments, though faithfully completed, rarely make it out of the theoretical.
So imagine the thrill for Curt Staats, a University of Wisconsin-Madison senior majoring in landscape architecture, to stand in...
Learning Rx: To host grand opening at new Waunakee location
New location to serve Waunakee, Lodi, Sun Prairie, DeForest and East Madison
When: Wednesday, January 14, 2009
3 – 7 p.m.
Where: 1004 Quinn Dr.
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Dept. of Commerce: Secretary Leinenkugel seeks Wisconsin partners for National Entrepreneurship Week 2009
Contacts: Tony Hozeny
Madison – The third annual recognition of National Entrepreneurship Week (NEW) occurs February 21 through February 28, 2009. This week, sponsored by the National Consortium for Education Excellence, is a celebration of American entrepreneurs and the educational programs currently preparing youth to develop a passion toward entrepreneurship as a viable career option.
“Last year,...
UW-Milwaukee: Workshop scheduled for Jan. 23
MILWAUKEE─“Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist” is the topic of a
full-day workshop at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Sheldon B.
Lubar School of Business Center for Technology Innovation on Friday,
Jan. 23, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in room N146, Lubar Hall, 3202 N.
Maryland Ave.
The design of the Web defies conventional wisdom about how information is represented and shared. How...
James Imaging Systems: Acquires Marnett Business Center
Contact: Tom Tegeder, 262-781-7700
or Jordan Fox, 414-352-2645
(Brookfield, December 29, 2008) -- James Imaging Systems, a 32-year-old Brookfield-based provider of integrated document technologies, has purchased Marnett Business...
UW-Madison: Scientists isolate genes that made 1918 flu lethal
CONTACT: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, 608-265-4925, kawaokay@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu
MADISON - By mixing and matching a contemporary flu virus with the "Spanish flu" - a virus that killed between 20 and 50 million people 90 years ago in history's most devastating outbreak of infectious disease - researchers have identified a set of three genes that helped underpin the extraordinary virulence of the 1918 virus.
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