Mica Kanner-Mascolo

mkannermascolo@wbjournal.com

Mica Kanner-Mascolo covers health care and diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Worcester Business Journal. Her freelance writing has been featured in publications including FEMINIST, Byrdie, and Spare Change News. Mica is a graduate of The New School where she studied creative writing. An East Coast native, Mica currently resides in Central Massachusetts.

Covers: Health care and diversity, equity, and inclusion

Banking & Finance

Worcester earmarks $500K from Polar Park settlement for new diverse business grants

The City of Worcester is now offering $5,000 grants to women and minority-owned businesses through its newly launched Diverse Business Certification Grant Program.

Economy

Hospital for Behavioral Medicine brings on third CEO since 2021

The Hospital for Behavioral Medicine in Worcester has named Evelyn Alsup as the hospital’s new CEO, marking the hospital’s third CEO in five years.

Banking & Finance

Worcester Regional Transit Authority to extend free rides through June 2025

Worcester area residents can look forward to yet another year of fare-free bus rides as the Worcester Regional Transit Authority board voted to extend the gratuitous service for the fifth consecutive year.

Banking & Finance

Worcester biopharmaceutical firm Mustang Bio to lay off 81% of staff

Mustang Bio will reduce its workforce by approximately 81% following a vote by the board of directors, according to a regulatory filing.

Diversity & Inclusion

WPI receives slice of $2.8M women’s health grants for bipolar treatment development

Two Worcester Polytechnic Institute professors are amongst 10 project awardees receiving $2.8 million in grants from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to support their research advancing women’s health outcomes.

Diversity & Inclusion

Clark fires back as outgoing Holocaust center director admonishes school in WSJ op-ed

Clark responded to a Wall Street Journal article with a statement to WBJ denying Mary Jane Rein’s claims, including admonishments and emphasized the university’s freedom of expression policy.

Economy

Saint Vincent Hospital hires third CFO since 2019

Jeffrey Thomas has been named as the new chief financial officer of the Massachusetts market of Tenet Healthcare.

Banking & Finance

🔒Gov. Healey’s proposed $1B life sciences reauthorization has Central Mass. leaders thinking big

For the burgeoning life sciences hub that is Central Massachusetts, Governor Maura Healey’s $3.5-billion Mass Leads Act economic development proposal looks to add fuel to fires.

Banking & Finance

🔒Preventing type 1 diabetes: UMass Chan researcher developing skin treatment, with potential broader applications to prevent diabetes

Now professor and chair of the Department of Dermatology at UMass Chan, Harris has founded a vitiligo pharmaceutical company and is about to launch a 1,000-person vitiligo study.

Environment

Worcester retirement home receives $8M from HUD for green renovations

Colony Retirement Homes III in Worcester has been granted $8 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under the department’s Green and Resilient Retrofit Program, which issues direct loans and grants to support a variety of green initiatives for eligible HUD-assisted multifamily properties.

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