Lauren Anderson
Lauren Anderson, former BizTimes Milwaukee reporter.
🔒 Exact Sciences reprogrammed labs to boost state’s COVID-19 testing capacity
At the outset of the state’s coronavirus response, just a handful of Wisconsin labs were running COVID-19 tests, averaging about 1,500 to 2,000 tests...
🔒 Epic provided project management, software to help state’s COVID-19 response
Verona-based medical records giant Epic Systems Corp. has used its experience with deploying complex projects quickly to aid in the state’s COVID-19 response.
As early...
🔒 Q&A with Mary Bunzel of UWM’s Connected Systems Institute
“Manufacturing isn’t like your father’s manufacturing anymore. It’s cool.”
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee established its Connected Systems Institute in 2017 as a higher education-industry consortium...
🔒 Industry and higher education partner on data science initiatives
When the Milwaukee School of Engineering opened its new $34 million Dwight and Dian Diercks Computational Science Hall in the fall of 2019, it...
Packers give $500,000 in COVID-19 relief to Milwaukee-area nonprofits
The Green Bay Packers announced they are distributing $500,00 in grants to seven Milwaukee County nonprofits affected by COVID-19.
Businesses work to gain customer confidence as they reopen
If any industry is prepared for the increased sanitation and hygiene protocols that businesses need to implement, it’s hair salons, said Signature Two Company...
Gender pay gap narrowing in Milwaukee, Waukesha counties
The median annual earnings of women in Milwaukee County are about 85% of the median among men – a pay gap that’s smaller than...
Brookfield health tech startup acquired by Milliman
Brookfield-based health technology startup healthIO has been acquired by Seattle-based actuarial and consulting firm Milliman Inc.
healthIO, which was founded in 2016 by president and...
🔒 Carroll University strategic plan includes new business school building, with...
Carroll University is considering renaming its School of Business to reflect the growing influence of data science on business, and has plans to open a new building on its campus in as soon as three years.
Treatment center for women planned in Oconomowoc
A Michigan-based social services agency plans to open a 30-bed residential drug and alcohol treatment facility in Oconomowoc.
Bethany Christian Services plans to operate its...
Greater Milwaukee Foundation backs African American Chamber COVID-19 recovery fund
The Greater Milwaukee Foundation has donated $100,000 to the African American Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin to establish a COVID-19 recovery fund.
The fund will...
Packers, Mark Murphy commit to funding social justice causes in Wisconsin
Green Bay Packers president and chief executive officer Mark Murphy said he and his wife, Laurie, will make a $250,000 donation to Wisconsin causes...
