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RACINE, Wis., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- SC Johnson is today updating their alert to the general public about a consumer scam involving fraudulent bank checks issued as a result of a supposed Consumers Reward Program. On May 1, 2008, we alerted the public to a scam that involves a letter to consumers notifying them that they have won a consumer...

The University of Wisconsin-Extension, the Wisconsin Department of National Resources and Capital Returns, Inc., a GENCO Supply Chain Solutions' Company, bring drug safety issues to the forefront with the launch of a safe consumer medicine return trial. PITTSBURGH, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Get the Meds Out, a consumer medication return pilot program, is set to launch this week with...

Shares Could Be Used for Acquisitions by M&I and Subsidiaries MILWAUKEE, May 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Marshall & Ilsley Corporation (NYSE:MI) (M&I) today announced it has filed a registration statement on Form S-4 covering an aggregate of up to six million shares which could be used for possible future acquisitions by M&I and its subsidiaries. This registration statement replaces a...

The 119-room hotel is the first for Viking Hospitality Fund DALLAS, May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Viking Hospitality Fund has announced the development of a 119-room SpringHill Suites by Marriott in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The property is the first for Viking Hospitality Fund, which was formed in September 2007 by Dallas-based Prism Hotels & Resorts, Cambridge, Wisconsin-based Telemark Hotel Developers,...

To ensure compliance with commercial motor vehicle safety regulations, a task force of state investigators will inspect approximately 75 Wisconsin companies that operate dump trucks. The task force will review dump truck companies’ safety procedures, including their alcohol and controlled substance testing programs for drivers.   The task force inspections, scheduled for completion by May 31, will use the expertise...

MADISON - Viruses are masters of deception, duping their host's cells into helping them grow and spread. A new study has found that human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can mimic a common regulatory protein to hijack normal cell growth machinery, disrupting a cell's primary anti-cancer mechanism.Writing in the May 9 issue of Science, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard...

MADISON - As vice president and chief financial officer of Plexus, a global electronics manufacturing corporation in Neenah, Wis., Ginger Jones was skeptical. She wasn't sure college students could come up with sound, practical advice her business could use."We make real-world decisions," Jones says. "I was concerned that students might not take it seriously."But today, the company's stock price...

MADISON - After selling the first company he founded for more than $1 million, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering alum Chad Sorenson wasn't sure what to do next. Though he found plenty of opportunities to work in industry, Sorenson (who earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mechanical engineering in 1999 and 2001, respectively, and a master's of business administration in...

MADISON - Timothy Kamp, a professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, has been awarded the inaugural Schuster Prize for excellence in advancing cardiovascular medicine at the school.Kamp received the award today (May 8) in a ceremony at Blackhawk Country Club. His research focuses on cardiac ion channels and stem...

Madison - The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the private, nonprofit patenting and licensing organization for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and FluGen, a local startup company that develops influenza vaccines and treatments, have signed license agreements for a technology that has the potential to significantly improve the way influenza vaccines are manufactured. "Flu vaccines today are manufactured in embryonated...

MADISON - Invitrogen Corp., a provider of essential life science technologies for research, production and diagnostics, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the private, nonprofit patenting and licensing organization for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, announced today (May 8) that they have signed a license for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) patents for the development of research tools.  Under...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- The DNR has issued a permit for the We Energies power plant in Oak Creek that doesn't require the utility to build water cooling towers. The permit instead allows the utility to move ahead with the water intake cooling system it has already built. The process pulls in water from Lake Michigan and then...

By Katie Ernest WisBusiness.com Red, green and yellow notes flew across the television screen as fingers strum to match the rock song’s tempo. When his 14-year-old student saw Milwaukee entrepreneur Brad Rake coming, “his shoulders drooped and he reluctantly put down the guitar controller,” Rake said. “He confessed that he played Guitar Hero for over 10 hours...