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By Brian E. Clark RISING WARF California-based Invitrogen has inked a licensing deal for stem-cell technologies with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. No price was announced, but similar licenses from WARF have cost up $2 million, with requirements that 1 percent to 5 percent of royalties go to WARF. Invitrogen -- which has 4,700 employees and reported sales of $1.3 billion last year -- makes tools...

From WisBusiness.com ... -- UW-Madison will launch a new living and learning community next fall for students interested in entrepreneurship. Located within Sellery Hall with space for up to 65 students, the initiative aims to make entrepreneurship more readily accessible to newly admitted students with wide-ranging academic interests. "Wisconsin has a long tradition of fusing the academic and residential aspects...

Printer will build on its success of having co-mailed 1-billion-plus catalogs in one year's time New IntelliTrim(TM) technology will drive even more client postage savings opportunities by allowing multiple titles, each with their own unique trim size and page count, to inline co-mail on a single, conventional stitching line SUSSEX, Wisc., May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Quad/Graphics is once again...

MILWAUKEE, May 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) urges Wisconsin lawmakers to comprehensively address the state's drunk driving problem as they consider law reforms following the outcry from people demanding change. The outrage stems from the April 25, 2008 crash in Oconomowoc that killed a pregnant woman and her daughter by a repeat drunk driver. The offender,...

Growth Seen in Meeting/Convention Sectors; Milwaukee, Dane and SaukCounties Top $1 Billion in Traveler Spending      MADISON, Wis., (May 10, 2008)  -- Traveler spending in Wisconsinremained strong and steady last year, despite rising gasoline prices,economic uncertainty and poor winter and spring weather, according to astudy released today by the Wisconsin Department of Tourism.   The 18thannual Economic Impact of Expenditures by...

MADISON - It started off pretty simply. Danielle McIntosh, a University of Wisconsin-Madison senior graduating in biological systems engineering, was intrigued by a friend who brought his Hula Hoop over to her apartment. She and her roommates would try out practicing with the hoop, and she found herself thinking about it even when her friend wasn't around."I was sitting...

U.S. Congress Recognizes American Craft Beer Week May 12-18   CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (May 12, 2008) – As craft beer fans’ thirst for diversity continues to evolve, the 141-year-old Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company, based in Chippewa Falls, WI, brews more opportunities for consumers to explore their pour.  Leinenkugel’s, which has recently expanded from an Upper Midwestern regional brewer to offering year-round...

Alliant Energy’s proposal to build a coal-fired power plant in the small town of Cassville, Wisconsin would further Wisconsin’s dependence on coal and contribute to the company’s projected 40 percent increase in global warming pollution.  On May 15th, community members will gather outside the annual Alliant Energy shareholder meeting in Madison to tell the corporation that ratepayers reject the...