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Mary Meehan, Ph.D., recently announced plans to exit her role as president of Alverno College in June 2016. BizTimes conducted a Q&A with Meehan as she approaches her final year of leadership:

Creative Alliance Milwaukee and The Greater Milwaukee Committee's Innovation in Milwaukee (MiKE) have announced they will combine their annual innovation events into a new annual conference focusing on creativity and innovation, which will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 7.

BizTimes Media invites companies to invest in their executive leadership team members by sending them to attend the 11th annual BizExpo, which will take place Wednesday, May 20, at the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in Milwaukee.

Among the 24 finalists in the 12th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest are several Milwaukee-area companies representing a variety of industries.

Mircea Dobre, vice president of equity research at Milwaukee-based Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc., says the worst may be over for the mining sector.

Milwaukee-based Koss Corp. reported fiscal third quarter net income of $57,218, or 1 cent per share, compared with a net loss of $25,121, or 0 cents per share, in the third quarter of 2014.

Brookfield-based Connecture Inc. reported a first quarter net loss of $5.1 million, or 24 cents lost per share, compared with a net loss of $6.6 million, or $41.34 lost per share, in the first quarter of 2014.

Milwaukee-based Wisconsin Energy Corp. reported first quarter net income of $195.8 million, or 86 cents per share, down from $207.6 million, or 91 cents per share, in the first quarter of 2014.

Wisconsin's state-chartered credit unions increased profits by 21.6 percent and ending by 10.7 percent in the first quarter of 2015, according to new data released by the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions.