The program runs from 8 a. The
cost for advance registration is $75 for members and students, and $100 for
non -members.

Teresa Iglesias-Solomon Named to Board of Directors of AMCORE Financial Inc.

The Principal Investigators heading these teams and their
projects are:

Laurence Iannaccone, George Mason University: Creating an "Ecology" for
the Study of Religion, Economics, and Spiritual Capital

Timur Kuran, University of Southern California: The Role of Religion in
the Economic Performance of Civilizations

Robert Woodberry, University of Texas at Austin: Project on Religion and
Economic Change

Each of these three projects began in March 2005 and is 30 months in
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at the Ann Arbor IT Zone., AMCORE Financial, Inc.
Iglesias-Solomon will serve on the board 's Compensation Committee and the
Governance and Nominating Committee. "The newly funded studies will
go a long way towards illuminating these dynamics and providing insights to
the benefit of humanity ."
Following a call for proposals, 43 finalists were chosen to submit full
proposals from a pool of more than 560 applicants, representing many of the
top research institutions in the United States and abroad.metanexus.

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" David C.
Bloom, principal of Factotem, will discuss how to move past the hows of
mixing, burning, blogging, and downloading and explore the whys of audio-
blogging known as podcasting." In today's
high-tech business world, your most valuable assets are likely intellectual
property. For more information or to register online, visit
http://www.

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Ann Arbor IT Zone Continues April Programming with a Hi-Tech Tuesday and Tech + the Law 2.0

Attendees will learn how and when to protect assets that can
invisibly slip through the firewall or walk out the door with employees.

" Larry Schmitt, Ph. Additionally,
Iglesias-Solomon has been building the framework to increase the company's
Hispanic marketing efforts, including work to establish a Domino's corporate
Hispanic Advisory Council that will bring representatives from both Domino's
corporate and franchise owned stores together for best practice sharing and
strategic counsel.
AMCORE provides a full range of consumer and commercial banking services, a
variety of mortgage lending products and wealth management services including
trust, brokerage, investment management and comprehensive retirement plan
services . PHILADELPHIA, Ten grants of $150,000 each for
high-level research in the emerging field of "Spiritual Capital" have been
announced by Kimon H. Just 100 years ago Max
Weber published his provocative work "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism.

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0 - Business Law in the Real
World, "Intellectual Property - Protecting Your Assets.m.0 - Business Law in the Real
World is:

April 14 - "Intellectual Property - Protecting Your Assets.D.org or call 734-615-9310. She will bring
excellent marketing and business development expertise to our organization,
especially as we continue to expand our products and services to the Hispanic
community.
Project summaries may be found online at
http://www."
Since then, social scientists have vigorously debated the concept of
social capital, but spiritual capital - a sub-set of the field - remains
relatively understudied.

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and presentations from 5:30 p.

Additional April programs include:

April 15 - "Innovation for Competitive Advantage.

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Attendees will learn how to simulate market response
before investing in product development. Her appointment will be effective
at the May 2, 2006 , board meeting."
Iglesias-Solomon earned her bachelor's degree in engineering from
I.AMCORE . The Spiritual Capital Research Program is designed to
fund innovative research that could lead to new understandings of religion's
role in economic, social and political life.metanexus. Metanexus is
a leader in a growing network of individuals and groups exploring the dynamic
interface between cosmos, nature, and culture in communities and on campuses
throughout the world.

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Judy Ravin, internationally acclaimed author of "Lose Your
Accent in 28 Days" and CEO of English Communications Services, will provide an
opportunity for professional foreign nationals to learn the techniques and
methods used in "Lose Your Accent in 28 Days," a complete computer based
learning system to help corporate and professional foreign nationals quickly
master accurate English pronunciation. In addition to the position on AMCORE
Financial's Board of Directors, she also works closely with Hispanic
communities throughout the United States.newscom.

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" Additional April
programs include a half-day seminar, "Innovation for Competitive Advantage,"
as well as an Accent Reduction Workshop, "Is English Your Second Language? "
Hi-Tech Tuesday programs open with registration and networking at 5 p. Using models employed by some of the
most innovative companies in the world, Schmitt will outline a systems
approach to developing a target first market, a sufficient product
specification and results desired from the product roll out.
The cost is $150 for all attendees and includes learning materials. in Queretaro , Mexico and holds a master's degree in nutrition from
the University of California and a master's in business administration from
Stanford University.
The Principal Investigators awarded grants and their projects are:

Peter Berger, Boston University: Spiritual Capital in Developing Societies

Wendy Cadge, Bowdoin College: Comparing Spiritual and Other Forms of
Social Capital: Lessons from the Immigrant Experience

Robert Dowd, University of Notre Dame: Religiosity and Political Culture:
Christians, Muslims and Spiritual Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa

Daniel Hungerman, University of Notre Dame: Religious Capital and Public
Policy in the 20th Century

Sriya Iyer, University of Cambridge: Innovation and the Resilience of
Religion

Michael Kremer, Harvard University: The Impact of the Hajj

John Levi Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Structures of Social
and Spiritual Capital in Religious and Nonreligious Groups

Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine: A Pious and Profitable
Mystery: Guilds , Purgatory, Reformation, the Multiplication of Religious
Denominations, and the Evolution of Industrial Society in Late-Medieval and
Early Modern England

David Sikkink, University of Notre Dame: The Dynamics of Spiritual Capital
in US Congregations

Fenggang Yang, Purdue University: Faith and Trust in the Emerging Market
Economy in China

These funded projects were launched in January 2006 and are up to 24
months in duration.
In spring 2005, three scholars each received founding grants of $500,000
to lead teams of researchers in the first projects of the Spiritual Capital
Research Program.

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The April 2005 Hi-Tech Tuesday programs
begin with:

April 5 - "Podcasting Beyond the Hype: Real World Applications. Walk-in registration is $125 for members and non-members .

April 22 - Accent Reduction Workshop, "Is English Your Second Language?"
This intensive accent reduction-training workshop will feature the
articulation strategies necessary for proficient and effective English
communication. Its educational series, Hi-Tech Tuesdays, IT Forums and Boot Camp,
help educate, retain and attract the diverse talent required to accelerate Ann
Arbor and the surrounding region's leadership position in information
technology.E.
(Logo: http://www .com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050324/PHTH031LOGO )
These grants from the Metanexus Institute are supported by generous
funding from the John Templeton Foundation to help develop a new
interdisciplinary field of "Spiritual Capital" research.

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Free to members of the Ann
Arbor IT Zone, Hi-Tech Tuesdays cost $25 for non-members and $5 for students.3 billion with 73 locations in Illinois and Wisconsin.

For further information, please
contact Christopher Stawski at 215-789-2200 or spiritualcapital@metanexus .net

The mission of the John Templeton Foundation is to pursue new insights at
the boundary between theology and science through a rigorous, open-minded and
empirically focused methodology , drawing together talented representatives
from a wide spectrum of fields of expertise.

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m. is headquartered in Northern Illinois and has
banking assets of $5. All 13 grantees will meet annually in 2006 and 2007 to discuss
their projects and begin building the network for this new field of study.

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, The Ann Arbor IT Zone continues
its April programming with a Hi-Tech Tuesday, "Podcasting Beyond the Hype:
Real World Applications," and Tech + the Law 2. The April 2005 Tech + the Law 2.

AMCORE Financial, Inc. The ten new
Spiritual Capital grantees, representing disciplines such as economics,
history, political science, and sociology, were selected from these finalists
following a rigorous peer review process. Metanexus leads and
facilitates over 300 projects in 36 countries. Projects include the Local
Societies Initiative , the Templeton Research Lectures, and topical
interdisciplinary research projects such as the Spiritual Transformation
Scientific Research Program, Spiritual Capital Research Program, and the
Templeton Advanced Research Program as well as other endeavors.

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through 7 p.,
president of Inovo Technologies , will lead this half-day, hands-on learning
experience that explores how to use innovation to develop a model of your
market for new products.
Iglesias-Solomon, 48, is currently Hispanic Marketing Director for
Domino's Pizza, a $4 billion publicly traded company with 5,000 stores. In her
position , she oversees all of the marketing efforts targeted to the U. Although religion and
spirituality are rich sources of personal meaning, they also have profound
public significance. The aim of the program is
to catalyze the development of this interdisciplinary research field, which
may become a vital new field in the social sciences.

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Real World is held on the second Thursday of each month from noon until
1:30 p. ROCKFORD, Ill. She is replacing Karen Branding who stepped
down from the Board in August of 2005.

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She also was
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(Nasdaq: AMFI) announces Teresa Iglesias-Solomon , Ann Arbor, Mich. As with the Spiritual Capital Research Program's initial
grants, awarded in 2005 , the results of this new research will be disseminated
through scholarly and lay publications, conferences , speaking engagements and
websites. Metanexus sponsors dialogue groups, lectures,
workshops, research, courses, grants, and publications.

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All Hi-Tech Tuesday programs are located at the Ann Arbor IT Zone, 330 East
Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor.
The Accent Reduction Workshop will be held from 8:30 a. to 12:30 p. For her work, she received a Silver award for best new
catalog of the year from the National Catalog Conference.

The Spiritual Capital Research Program is interested in supporting high-
level, impartial scholarship on the contribution of religion - both for good
and for ill - to economic and social developments.

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Kenneth E. can be found at the
Company's website at http://www."
"The mutual interaction of religion and economics is an important, but
neglected area for research and public policy," says William Grassie,
executive director of the Metanexus Institute.
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The
cost includes "The Wisdom of Crowds " by James Surowiecki, workshop materials
and refreshments.
Iglesias-Solomon also is well known for the company she founded, Ninos
Catalog Company, a direct marketing firm focused on bilingual educational
products for children. She is fluent in Spanish and English, both written and
spoken , with conversational proficiency in French and Italian. Sargeant, the director of the Spiritual Capital Research
Program based at the Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science.

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Sponsored by Raymond + Prokop, Tech + the Law 2. Held at the Ann Arbor IT Zone, the cost is free to
all attendees. to 12 p.m.

About the Ann Arbor IT Zone
Michigan's premier non -profit organization dedicated to the development of
the state's information technology environment across multiple market sectors,
the Ann Arbor IT Zone fosters and promotes the area's information technology
industry by offering services to established and new information technology
companies .
Hispanic market, including advertising, Internet, special promotions, public
relations, product integration and new product development.S. Further information about AMCORE Financial, Inc.

Ten Grants of $150 000 Each Awarded for Research on 'Spiritual Capital' By Metanexus Institute

In "The Wealth of Nations," Adam Smith raised key questions for the
economic analysis of religion and looked at the effects of competition among
religions and the dangers of government of religion. Only in recent years have leading scholars, including
Nobel laureate economists Gary Becker and Robert Fogel and political
scientists John DiIulio and Robert Putnam, called renewed attention to the
effects of spiritual and religious practices, beliefs and institutions on
economics, politics and societies . A membership
organization, Metanexus hosts an online magazine and discussion forum with
over 180,000 monthly page views and 8000 regular subscribers in 57 different
countries.

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S. Edge, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of
AMCORE, notes, "Ms. "Although the social
sciences have often minimized the importance of religion, there is now a
growing openness among scholars to consider how trust, behavioral norms and
religion can profoundly shape economic, political and social developments.templeton.

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Additional programs include 'Innovation for Competitive Advantage '
and Accent Reduction Workshop

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Each program , led by Mark Malven, technology chair at Raymond +
Prokop, will be comprised of different legal topics presented in a direct,
school-of-hard-knocks way.m., has been
named to the Company's Board of Directors. Iglesias-Solomon has an outstanding background in
marketing and advertising, with over 20 years of business experience in
general management, marketing, and strategy development.M.
AMCORE common stock is listed on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol
AMFI.
"It is essential in today's world that scholars take seriously the broader
significance of spiritual capital ," says Sargeant.

The Metanexus Institute advances scientific research, education and
outreach on the constructive engagement of science and religion.