Monica Benevides

Resource Management, Inc., a family-owned human resources outsourcing company in Fitchburg, announced founder and current CEO Rey Lopez will step into a new role as director of sales while his daughter and current company president, Rachel Lopez, takes on the CEO.

Nichols College in Dudley will use a $20 million tax-exempt bond from state agency MassDevelopment to build a new four-story, 19,000-square-foot residence hall, as well as cover other renovations and campus projects, MassDevelopment announced on Thursday.

Stop & Shop presented Framingham State University with $100,000 to establish a scholarship for diversity in the food & nutrition, an endowed fund to provide financial assistance for students studying to become registered dietitians.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester will once again offer free medical administrative assistant training, as well as a free nurse assistant/home health aide program later this fall and early in spring.

Leicester voters overwhelmingly approved two warrant articles to pay for the purchase of and cover operational costs of the bulk of the former Becker College campus at a special town meeting on Tuesday night.

Clark University has named Joseph Corazzini as vice president for government and community affairs, the Worcestet school announced Tuesday.

Bud’s Goods & Provisions, a cannabis company based in Worcester, was named the Best New England Cannabis Company 2021 at the New England Cannabis Convention.

BlueHive Group and BlueHive Exhibits of Worcester has named Caitlyn Correia, who has been at the company since 2013, as its next president, per a Tuesday announcement.

Cytiva, the former GE Healthcare Life Sciences, based in Marlborough, has entered an agreement with the pharmaceutical company Lakes BioScience, based in the United Kingdom, to help the European company optimize its manufacturing processes, Lakes BioScience announced Tuesday.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Clark University in Worcester were ranked #63 and #103 in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings, released Monday.