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Contact: Amy Frantti, Media Relations, 612-303-0733 MINNEAPOLIS, Dec 17, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Five financial consultants with U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc., (USBI) are named among the 8th annual "Top 50 Bank Reps" by Bank Investment Consultant, a trade publication for investment consultants and senior sales management in bank investment programs. USBI financial consultants who ranked among the Top 50 Bank...

For more information: Dr. Minnie Gupta Director of Marketing Ph: 608.237.1270 rgupta@platypustech.com Madison, WI - Platypus Technologies announces the addition of the Oris™ Cell Migration Assay – Collagen Coated kit to its product line of cellular assays. This new product was launched at the recent American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting held in Washington DC, December 1 – 5....

For more information, contact: Toranj Marphetia (toranj@mcw.edu) Director of Media Relations Office: 414-456-4700 The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a four-year, $886,468 grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop statistical methods to analyze long-term outcomes of bone marrow transplantation. John P. Klein, Ph.D., professor of population health and director of biostatistics, is...

CONTACT: James Dumesic, (608) 262-1095, dumesic@engr.wisc.edu MADISON - James Dumesic, Chemical and Biological Engineering Steenbock Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a 2007 Scientific American "SciAm 50" award for his innovative alternative fuels research. The magazine annually publishes a list paying tribute to individuals and organizations who, through their efforts in research, business and policy-making, are driving advances in...

For more information, contact: Toranj Marphetia (toranj@mcw.edu) Director of Media Relations Office: 414-456-4700 The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a four-year, $1.12 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to develop an integrative genomics approach to the genetic study of type 1 diabetes. Xujing Wang, Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics, is principal...

For more information, contact: Toranj Marphetia (toranj@mcw.edu) Director of Media Relations Office: 414-456-4700 The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a two-year, $165,970 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to study botulism, a disease that can weaken or paralyze skeletal muscle. The disease is caused by intoxication with botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), one of the most poisonous...

Probably the two biggest business issues in southwest Wisconsin since this column started have been two proposed concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) hog farms and the Dairyland Power ash problem at its Genoa plant.   If you’re not aware of the issues, here’s a quick summary. CAFOs in Vernon and Crawford counties led to opposition from people concerned about runoff from...

SHEBOYGAN, December 14, 2007 – Over 600 business and community leaders from throughout Northeast Wisconsin attended the 2007 New North Summit at the Blue Harbor Resort in Sheboygan on Friday.   “Today’s Summit was a great success, and the huge number of participants speaks to the involvement and devotion of business leaders from throughout the region,” said Jerry Murphy, Executive Director...

MADISON -- The Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group, Inc. (WIEG) says it is “disappointed” by the rate increase approved by the Public Service Commission for Northern States Power Company (a Wisconsin company d/b/a Xcel Energy). WIEG members and some of the largest Xcel customers sponsored testimony to fight the rate hike and to reduce the impact on manufacturers.   NSPW requested an...