MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 20 -- The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection issued the following news release on Feb. 19, 2024: The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) is accepting applications for the next Wisconsin Agriculture Youth Council. High school students who will be seniors during the 2024 - 2025 school year should apply now for the council. The purpose of the Wisconsin Agriculture Youth Council is to encourage young pe  more

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, Feb. 21 -- Discovery Education, a division of Discovery Communications, issued the following news release on Feb. 20, 2024: Wisconsin's Pardeeville Area School District (PASD) today announced a new partnership with global edtech leader Discovery Education that is bringing new digital resources supporting college and career readiness to students districtwide. Thanks to this new collaboration, teachers and students across PASD will soon have access to Discovery Educatio  more

ROMEOVILLE, Illinois, Feb. 21 -- Lewis University issued the following news release on Feb. 20, 2024: On February 17, Lewis University's Cyber Defense Club placed third in the three-state qualifier competition of the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competiton (CCDC). As the third-place winners of the Illinois, Wisconsin and Missouri two-year and four-year colleges and universities, the Lewis University team will compete in the February 24 Wildcard Qualifier for the Midwest Collegiate Cyber Defense C  more

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Feb. 21 -- Marquette University issued the following news release: Brian Troyer, dean of undergraduate admissions at Marquette University, has been elected to serve as president of the National Catholic College Admission Association for the 2025-26 academic year and will spend the 2024-25 year as president-elect. The appointment began with the National CCAA membership meeting in January. The National CCAA is a nonprofit organization of Catholic colleges and universities c  more

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Feb. 19 -- Quarles and Brady, a law firm, issued the following news release: Morgan Hines, a Quarles & Brady associate in the Business Law Practice Group, has been selected to the State Bar of Wisconsin Leadership Development Committee's 2024 Leadership Summit. Each year, the State Bar of Wisconsin holds this event to encourage new lawyer involvement in volunteer bar service and greater engagement in the profession. The program helps identify a volunteer role that provid  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 20 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: New research from the Weeks Lab in the Department of Biochemistry opens the door for scientists to explore cell death, a critical biochemical process, with greater ease. Here's the rundown on professor Amy Weeks and her lab's recent research and paper: Cell death is a healthy and constant part of life. Disruptions to the cell death process can result in illness, such as cancerous tumors. Avail  more

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, Feb. 21 -- Quarles and Brady, a law firm, issued the following news release: Nick Meza, a Phoenix-based partner in the Quarles & Brady Health & Life Sciences Practice Group, has been selected to be a fellow by the American Bar Foundation (ABF.) The ABF Fellows is a global honorary society that recognizes attorneys, judges, law faculty and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profess  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 20 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: Ke Fang, assistant professor of physics, and Xiangyao Yu, assistant professor of computer sciences have been named 2024 Sloan Fellows. Two members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty are among 126 scientists across the United States and Canada selected as Sloan Research Fellows. The fellowships, awarded annually since 1955, honor exceptional scientists whose creativity, innovation a  more

GREEN BAY, Wisconsin, Feb. 20 -- The University of Wisconsin Green Bay campus issued the following news release on Feb. 19, 2024: UW-Green Bay today announced a new partnership with Howard-Suamico School District (HSSD) on a guaranteed college admissions initiative. Through the program, all high school seniors graduating from HSSD's Bay Port High School in 2024 will be guaranteed admission into UW-Green Bay once they apply. Students will work with a UW-Green Bay admissions counselor to determin  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 21 -- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has approved a variance to the Brule River State Forest Master Plan to allow additional barrens habitat management in the Mott's Ravine Native Community Management Area at Brule River State Forest. The approved variance updates management prescriptions for Motts Ravine by increasing the acres of core area dedicated to barrens manage  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 20 -- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources issued the following news release: The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) encourages conservation groups, government organizations and private landowners to apply for a share of the $460,000 available through a federal Natural Resources Conservation Service grant. The DNR will use these dollars to fund two agricultural wetland mitigation projects, selected from the applicant pool, and add them to the Wisco  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 21 -- The Wisconsin Democratic Party issued the following news: * * * Gets Called Out for Only Moving to Wisconsin When He Wants to Run for Office * * * As California bank owner Eric Hovde enters the U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin, new reporting from Dan Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel detailed how Hovde tried to hide his out-of-state property and the fact that he only comes to Wisconsin when he wants to try to buy a Senate seat. Read more below: Milwaukee Jo  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 21 -- The Wisconsin Democratic Party issued the following statement on Feb. 19, 2024: * * * In response to today's signing of new district maps for the Wisconsin State Legislature by Gov. Evers, Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Ben Wikler issued the following statement: "The long, dark night of ultra-partisan gerrymandering is over, and a new day for democracy now dawns in the Badger State. "The stroke of Governor Evers's pen today marks the end of the shameful pe  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 21 -- The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction issued the following news release on Feb. 20, 2024: In accordance with 2023 Wisconsin Act 20, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction on Monday submitted a memo to the Joint Committee on Finance that includes a list of recommended early literacy curricula for use in kindergarten to third grade. The DPI's list of recommended curricula contains 11 instructional materials that were carefully reviewed by subject m  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Feb. 21 -- The Wisconsin Democratic Party issued the following statement on Feb. 20, 2024: * * * Today, Democratic Party of Wisconsin Rapid Response Director Arik Wolk released the following statement ahead of Eric Hovde's (R-Laguna Beach) Senate campaign announcement: "California bank owner Eric Hovde is running for Senate to impose his self-serving agenda, putting ultra rich people like himself ahead of middle-class Wisconsinites. Hovde would vote to pass a national abor  more