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MADISON – Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) – the combined state chamber and manufacturers’ association – announced nine companies as recipients of the Wisconsin Business Friend of the Environment Award. For over three decades, WMC has presented this award to companies who have demonstrated environmental leadership.“Wisconsin’s economy depends on industry leaders who go above and beyond to use...

APPLETON, Wis. (Oct. 4, 2022) –Valley Transit, the public transportation service in the Fox Cities, is celebrating the 15th anniversary of VT Connector, a supplemental microtransit service that helps fill gaps in its traditional fixed-route bus service.  Through a contracted service provider, Valley Transit operates vans to help connect passengers outside of the normal bus service area to...

(Madison, Wis.) (Oct. 30, 2022) – The Farwell Foundation today announced a $500,000 gift to the Urban League of Greater Madison in support of the Black Business Hub project.  The Farwell Foundation is a charitable organization that is run by Samantha M. Weston. The Foundation was funded by the unwavering generosity of Cheryl Rosen Weston. The...

APPLETON, Wis. – McCarty Law LLP, a top law firm in Northeast Wisconsin, has hired Sadie Dupont as an attorney for its business and corporate law practice. In her role, Dupont will focus primarily on business law matters such as business formations, contract drafting, and mergers and acquisitions. Dupont earned a Juris Doctor degree from Marquette...

October 4, 2022, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - CRC Employment and Entrepreneurial Services, Inc. (CRCEE, INC.) is pleased to announce the launch of its innovative B.O.S.S. Academy. The four-week training program is aimed at aspiring entrepreneurs as well as established small business owners. One of the primary goals of this initiative is to assist entrepreneurs in laying a solid foundation for...

MADISON, WIS. – During the 2022 International Junior Guernsey Show, the winning junior in the Five-Year-Old Cow Class, Hi Guern View Asias Africa was awarded Grand Champion Female of the Junior Show and Senior Champion Female of the Junior Show. Africa was exhibited by Alaina Dinderman of Orangeville, Illinois, who received the $500 Udder Comfort Grand Champion Award, the...

The High-Risk, High-Reward Research program <https://commonfund.nih.gov/highrisk>, supported by the Common Fund < https://commonfund.nih.gov/>at the National Institutes of Health has awarded 103 new research grants to support highly innovative scientists who propose visionary and broadly impactful meritorious behavioral and biomedical research projects. Awards include the impact exposure to fracking might have on pregnancy and conception; how brain mechanisms influence...

MADISON, Wis – Today, Construction Business Group’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Development Initiative and the Wisconsin Small Business Development Center’s Capital Access Clinic announced a strategic partnership to help minority, women, and other historically disadvantaged-owned businesses get a foot in the door of Wisconsin’s transportation construction industry. “The goal of CBG’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Initiative is to help...

MADISON, Wis. – Today the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) announced they are hosting a free online student loan debt relief workshop on October 18. The workshop will help student loan borrowers prepare for the end of the public service loan forgiveness waiver on October 31 and the end of the federal...

Appleton, Wis. (October 3, 2022) – There’s no question the construction industry is facing a labor crunch. The industry will need to hire nearly 590,000 new workers nationally on top of normal hiring to meet industry demand in 2023, according to a survey by Associated Builders and Contractors.  Without enough skilled workers on staff,...

 MADISON, Wis – Wisconsin Medicine announced a new focus on overcoming national workforce shortages and building the healthcare workforce of the future.             A significant donation from Verona-based Epic will kickstart the effort, allowing for the creation and expansion of programs to inspire, train and support the next generation of healthcare...

Scientists including UW-Madison researchers have developed a method for 3D printing a type of stainless steel that could help manufacturers reduce production costs.  That’s according to an overview from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which collaborated with the university and the Argonne National Laboratory on the research project. It focused on a...

-- Scientists including UW-Madison researchers have developed a method for 3D printing a type of stainless steel that could help manufacturers reduce production costs.  That’s according to an overview from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which collaborated with the university and the Argonne National Laboratory on the research project. It focused on...