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Released by: Justin A. Smith Smithj@uwm.edu or 414-277-3153 Milwaukee—The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education is hosting the" Staying Ahead of the Boom: Reinventing Yourself for the New Retirement" conference on October 27, 2006 at the UWM-School of Continuing Education in downtown Milwaukee. Speaking at the conference will be noted author Ellen Freudenheim. Freudenheim’s book /Looking Forward: An Optimist’s...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, please contact: The Milwaukee Press Club Gloria Gappa-Grundman (414) 588-9571 milwaukeepressclub@gmail.com MILWAUKEE, WI— Vital Source magazine editor-in-chief and co-publisher Jon Anne Willow will lead the Milwaukee Press Club as president for the next year, after the membership ratified elections to the club's board of governors at the September 7 Annual Meeting. Willow has...

CONTACT: Elizabeth Donley, (608) 262-6650 MADISON - The National Stem Cell Bank has expanded its offering of human embryonic stem cell lines to include cells from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), it announced today (Sept. 19). With the addition of the UCSF lines, the National Stem Cell Bank will soon have on deposit 13 of the 21 cell...

CONTACT: Alice Pawley, (608) 215-0594, pawley@cae.wisc.edu; Amy Kindschi, (608) 263-2686, kindschi@engr.wisc.edu MADISON - In tribute to the pioneering women of the 20th century who broke into the "male" field of engineering, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) have created a traveling multimedia history. The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Wendt Library will host the exhibit "Petticoats and Slide Rules" for 12 weeks...

University Relations and Communications, 715-346-3046, Fax 715-346-2042, http://www.uwsp.edu/news The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources (CNR) is hosting the OAK 2006 International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Conference, “Advances in the Principles and Practices of Oak Silviculture and Genetics.” The conference begins Sunday evening, September 24, at the Holiday Inn and Convention Center in Stevens Point, and...

Company: Boy Scouts of America Contact: Steve Heck, Scout Executive Phone: (608) 273-1005 , Madison WI - The Boy Scouts of America Glacier’s Edge Council is holding a ground breaking ceremony on September 19, 2006 at 5:30 p.m. to kick off the construction of its new service center. The event will be held at 5902...

Below is an excerpt from the most recent edition of WisBusiness Tuesday Trends, a WisBusiness product previously available only to paid subscribers. But starting soon, this weekly look at the state of Wisconsin business will be available for free to anyone who signs up for the Tuesday Trends mailing list. To get the full version of Tuesday Trends in your...

By Brian E. Clark WisBusiness.com MADISON – Berbee Information Networks – which started 13 years ago in a Madison basement – will be sold to CDW Corp. of suburban Chicago for $175 million in cash. CDW announced this morning it has signed a “definitive agreement” to acquire privately-held Berbee, which is on the nation’s largest independent IT solutions providers. The deal...

By Gregg Hoffmann WisBusiness.cm La Crosse – For the first time in the history of rapidly-growing Logistics Health Inc., all employees are under one roof this week. Actually, all but 30 of the employees of the company moved into their new six-story, $16 million headquarters on the riverfront over the weekend. Those 30 workers will continue to be at a separate...