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Madison Style: Finding a new home for ‘better brands’

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Wisconsin State Journal

Noted: Before opening Simply Savvy, Dubas completed entrepreneurial training at the UW-Madison School of Business. She recognized the need and benefits of clothing consignment as a mom, when she often sold her children’s clothes at a local consignment shop. When that shop was closing, she helped the owner clear out her inventory and discovered a knack for the retail niche. The business also fits her organizational and design skills, she said.

Connecting art to social justice

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Wisconsin State Journal

Noted: “Racism is Highly Adaptable” consists of four large wood carvings, inspired by the carvings done by slaves that Parks Snider had read about during one of her frequent visits to the Kohler Art Library at UW-Madison.

Local, national activists and adademics explore racial justice in Madison

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Wisconsin State Journal

Noted: The conversations also involved UW-Madison students and faculty, as well as voices from other parts of the country, including Cedric Robinson, professor in the departments of Black Studies and Political Science at the University of California-Santa Barbara, and activist and author Jamala Rogers of St. Louis, who wrote “Ferguson is America: Roots of Rebellion.”

3,700 runners flock to Madison for Marathon

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Daily Cardinal

Noted: Boston-area native and current UW-Madison graduate student in applied economics Greg Englehart, 23, won the marathon in 2:39:40. It was the second marathon Englehart has run after completing his undergraduate degree at Colgate University in New York, where he was a member of the track and cross country teams. He manages his busy life as a grad student by training daily at the UW Arboretum.

Eli Bovarnick: Walker misplaced taxpayers’ priorities, GOP candidates can’t do the same

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Capital Times

On Tuesday, an hour before the GOP presidential candidates’ debate about the economy in Milwaukee Theatre, the Milwaukee Bucks will tip-off their NBA game in the soon-to-be-replaced Bradley Center, directly across the street. As a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and for most Wisconsinites, the symbolism surrounding the debate’s location is almost too fitting.

Whitcomb Technologies wins top honors in pitch competition at Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: The pitch contest capped off the Wisconsin Technology Council’s two-day conference, which drew about 575 attendees. Also at the conference, Jeff Rusinow was inducted into the Investor Hall of Fame, and Thomas “Rock” Mackie received the 2015 Excellence in Entrepreneurial Education Award. Mackie, a professor emeritus of medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-founded Healthmyne and TomoTherapy Inc.

Group raising funds to open monkey sanctuary

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WISC-TV 3

Noted: The Portage Daily Register reported that Amy Kerwin founded Primates Inc. after seeing the need for monkey sanctuaries more than a decade ago in her work in the primate lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She got to know 97 research monkeys and learned there were no plans to retire them.

Department of Workforce Development, Madison College team up to help displaced Oscar Mayer workers

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Badger Herald

Quoted: Oscar Mayer has not confirmed what type of severance packages or benefits they will provide to the displaced workers, Barry Gerhart, University of Wisconsin professor of management and human resources, said. But regardless of the compensation, the closure will be a major challenge for displaced employees.

Alex Kulstad: UW-Madison should make WisCard valid for voting

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Capital Times

Dear Editor: UW-Madison is home to upwards of 40,000 students, all of whom play a crucial role in our local government. However, a great number of UW-Madison students are not from Wisconsin. In fact, UW-Madison is expected to increase its number of out-of-state students. On balance, having out-of-state students is a good thing for the university and for the state. It increases diversity, contributes to a growing and talented workforce, and improves the social and economic fabric of our community and state. However, this does not come without unintended consequences, specifically the challenge many students have in participating in our great democracy through the electoral process.

Food manufacturing jobs dropped 40 percent in Dane County between 2001 and 2014

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Capital Times

Noted: In an October 2014 report on the area’s agriculture, food and beverage industry cluster prepared for the Madison Region Economic Partnership, Matt Kures of the UW Extension Center for Community and Economic Development wrote that a loss in food manufacturing employment was a result of changes at individual companies rather than declining regional competitiveness.

Report: Badgers, Packers, Brewers among recipients of military’s ‘paid patriotism’

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Wisconsin State Journal

The University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Packers and Milwaukee Brewers have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Wisconsin Army National Guard for ceremonies honoring soldiers and their families, renditions of “God Bless America” and other military promotions, according to a report from two senators who deride the marketing strategy as “paid patriotism.”

Voter ID foes strike out again

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: Perhaps the ACLU should pick a new target. Say, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which refuses to make the changes necessary to make its student ID cards acceptable for voting, despite a joint request to do so from the College Democrats and College Republicans.

Tom Still – State’s health-tech start-up sector recovering nicely

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Noted: A prime example is the ongoing 90th anniversary celebration of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Founded in 1925 as an independent patent and licensing office for the University of Wisconsin, WARF began with the campus discovery that ultraviolet radiation can produce vitamin D in food. That led to vitamin D milk and the virtual end to rickets, a disease that once scourged millions of children. Today, WARF is the oldest academic tech transfer organization of its kind in the United States and has returned more than $1 billion over time to the UW-Madison campus.

How To Attract New Talent To Your Practice

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Trust Advisor

Noted: Hoping to nab young talent even earlier, Baird is also working with the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s business school on the curriculum for a capstone wealth management course to launch this fall. Their goal is to sign up 20 to 30 students.

‘Memoria Viventis’

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Wisconsin State Journal

Noted: A series called “Serpent” made by Michael Velliquette, a member of the UW-Madison faculty, is comprised of a collection of small hand-cut paper sculptures.

New museum celebrates local science

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Daily Cardinal

The city’s longstanding ties with historical scientific achievements have a new home in the Madison Science Museum, which opened Thursday.The process of putting together the museum, the brainchild of Dave Nelson, emeritus professor of biochemistry at UW-Madison, began long before its recent grand opening.

AHA looks to spread secular awareness

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Daily Cardinal

The student organization Atheists, Humanists, & Agnostics requested an increase in their budget proposal to the Student Services Finance Committee for the next fiscal year to better campus-wide programs and events.

Pat Malcolm: Kochs seek power with UW sports sponsorship

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Capital Times

Dear Editor: The Kochs and Koch Industries have such an insidious hold on national conservatism that it is disingenuous for any responsible person at UW to say Koch sponsorship doesn’t matter. When the Kochs are writing the playbook for national politics, especially gubernatorial and legislative policies, does anyone see a connection between recent defunding of the university system and the allure of this lucrative sports package?