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More than 30 employees from Wells Fargo & Company and Rockwell Automation are teaming up Friday for community service projects focused on enhancing aesthetics and community in the Harambee neighborhood. Employee volunteers will paint and stain porches for homeowners, decorate and fill planters in the neighborhood, and create window boards youth can decorate to hang over boards on abandoned properties.

Scientists from the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and Froedtert Hospital will use a one-year, $50,000 grant from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin (CTSI) to research a specific type of heart failure and pinpoint biomarkers that could help with earlier diagnosis and treatment. Researchers will focus on identifying biomarkers involved in cardiac dysfunction, which might allow clinicians to diagnose and decide a treatment route before irreversible cardiac damage affects a patient.

Growing Power announced plans to create community food centers at locations across the country with a five-year, $5 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

BizTimes Milwaukee invites southeastern Wisconsin nonprofit organizations to take advantage of a year-long marketing opportunity by submitting information to be featured in the 2013 BizTimes Giving Guide, a print and digital publication to showcase nonprofit organizations seeking support from the business community.

Friday, Sept. 14, Special Olympics Wisconsin invites the public to watch 60 participants rappel down the side of...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Vice Chancellor Joan Prince has been nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as an Alternate Representative of the United States to the General Assembly of the United Nations.

Employers in the Milwaukee area expect to continue hiring at an “active” pace during the fourth quarter, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.

With yet another major credit agency threatening to downgrade America's credit rating if Washington fails to resolve the nation's fiscal crisis by year's end, it's becoming clearer and clearer that Congress and the President need to act immediately.

Friday, Sept. 14, through Sunday, Sept. 16, the Milwaukee Brewers take on the New York Mets at Miller...

Friday, Sept. 7, through Sunday, Sept. 16, Bayshore Town Center will host its first annual Shop & Dine...