Isabel Tehan

The Worcester institutions The College of the Holy Cross and UMass Memorial Health, are partnering this summer to offer hands-on experience to students at the Worcester college.

Worcester-based Euro-American Worldwide Logistics has completed a 20,000-square-foot expansion of its Airport Drive warehouse facilities in support of the life sciences industry.

Interise, a Boston-based nonprofit with the goal of providing resources and assistance to minority-owned or low-income area-based organizations, has brought its NextStage Minority Business Entrepreneur Academy and NextStage Accelerator to Central Massachusetts in partnership with The Urban League of Springfield and Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts.

Grafton food insecurity nonprofit Community Harvest Project has secured an Agricultural Preservation Restriction for its 75-acre apple and peach orchard in Harvard.

Framingham firm Ameresco, which specializes in clean and renewable energy, has completed the installation of a solar field which will power a utility-structure manufacturing plant in Bristol, Indiana.

Milford life sciences firm Waters Corp. will lay off about 4% of its 8,200 employees worldwide, and most of the impacted Massachusetts employees will be at the Milford headquarters.

Eighteen Central Massachusetts nonprofits have been granted a combined $1.4 million from Worcester-based UMass Memorial Health in partnership with Shields Health in Quincy.

UMass Chan Medical School has partnered with Southcoast Health to enable students to complete clinical rotations at the three-hospital community-based system.

Framingham clean energy company Ameresco has signed a 20-year, eight-site contract with Colorado electric utility United Power to install a large battery system designed to improve the power grid.

EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, a Watertown-based company launching manufacturing facilities in Northbridge, has promoted its chief operating officer and president to the position of CEO.