Isabel Tehan

A UMass Chan Medical School professor and assistant vice provost for health equity has been elected as president of the American Society for Cell Biology.

A UMass Chan Medical School student group helping asylum seekers in Greater Worcester has become formally affiliated with the Worcester school and has now received nonprofit status, opening it up to more grant funding and participation in research.

Marlborough-based Boston Scientific plans to construct a new facility in Maple Grove, Minnesota, a spokesperson for the biotechnology and manufacturing company confirmed Thursday.

The Central Massachusetts Agency on Aging is running back-to-school programming starting in August, an initiative part of the Worcester organization's new Grandparents Raising Grandkids Resource Center.

Community Healthlink in Worcester has received a slice of $519,457 of MassDevelopment funding announced Monday, in order to remake its cafeteria.

Local unemployment rates are up approximately half a percentage point across Central Massachusetts labor markets.

Fitchburg Comprehensive Treatment Center, an outpatient opioid addiction treatment provider, has expanded its programming and medication-assisted treatment plans.

Despite progress in the lower rungs of higher education’s leadership ladder, women are not equally represented in the industry’s top executive spot.

With affirmative action now barred in college admissions, workplace and education officials expect an immediate impact in the diversity at the start of the workforce talent pipeline and worry about a cooling effect on DEI efforts overall.

Anna Maria College has added two new majors to its catalog. The Paxton school will now offer data analytics and cybersecurity majors, which are meant to add to the college’s career-ready degree programming.