Banking & Finance

Massachusetts Head Start programs employed 4,212 people in the 2023-2024 program year.

UMass Memorial Health’s first choice to open a standalone emergency room to partially replace the shuttered Nashoba Valley Medical Center was to purchase the closed facility.

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester is sounding the alarms over plans by the Trump Administration to significantly cut the money spent on biomedical and public health research.

The Center for Women & Enterprise Central MA has laid off Director Racquel Knight.

Auxilium, a new Worcester-based innovation studio and accelerator opened in January, is partnering with fellow startup center RIHub.

Former state Sen. Dean Tran was sentenced Friday to a year and a half in prison followed by two years of supervised release, having been convicted of 23 felony counts including COVID and tax fraud, federal prosecutors said.

Employees at Dean College, Bowditch & Dewey, and Milford Regional Physician Group are advancing in their professional careers.

In 2024, the United States celebrated the 50th anniversary of a woman’s ability to obtain a bank account without her father’s or husband’s co-signature.

IMA celebrated its 100th year of operation last year, having been founded by Harold Fielding in Worcester in 1924. The firm has 45 employees.

Worcester science museum EcoTarium has enhanced its collection of mammal artifacts and sculptures, along with an unspecified monetary donation, from benefactors Peter and Joan Dirlam of Southbridge.