Education

Two Worcester biomanufacturing leaders are teaming up to establish a $5.2-million bioindustrial manufacturing tech hub as part of a larger Massachusetts initiative to strengthen regional innovation ecosystems.

The question asked voters if they supported requiring private colleges and universities to invest 0.5% of their endowments annually into a community impact fund.

In a city with high-profile industries like higher education and health care, the biggest businesses tend to be tax-exempt.

For the first time, women will skate onto Fitchburg State University’s ice hockey rink as varsity players...

Framingham State University has created its first-ever director of external affairs position, naming David Halbert to the inaugural role.

A month after seven Worcester representatives signed a letter urging UMass Chan Medical School to increase physician wages, the Worcester university has reached a tentative contract agreement with the physician union representing 700 UMass providers.

Quinsigamond Community College has hired Rocky Knight as director of its newly launched Auxilium Center for Entrepreneurship. 

Clark University has received the largest single gift in the Worcester school’s 138-year history, which the Worcester school will use to fund its restructuring plan announced in June that includes laying off up to 30% of its faculty.

Two projects led by Worcester Polytechnic Institute researchers have been awarded a combined $661,662 from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative.

Fitchburg State University has named Travis Chambers, a former assistant dean at Georgia State University, as its new CFO, starting Dec. 1.