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MADISON—After 21 years as president of the University of Wisconsin Foundation, Andrew A. “Sandy” Wilcox has announced plans to retire at the end of 2010. Wilcox informed the Foundation’s board of directors during its regular meeting Friday. The early announcement will allow for an orderly transition and will give the newly appointed search committee sufficient… Read more »

MADISON – Laurits (Lau) Christensen, chairman of the economic and engineering consulting firm Christensen Associates of Madison, has established a named faculty chair in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Economics. Christensen, who served on the UW-Madison economics faculty for 20 years, says he made the gift to allow the recruitment and retention of top-flight… Read more »