Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Central Mass. universities could gain national recognition by having local universities, hospitals and industry working together to offer multi-disciplinary nuclear programs.

With this year's WBJ 40 Under Forty, you see the people who could turn the cultural renaissance from a well-started idea to a full-blown reality.

Four Worcester colleges made Top 20 lists in The Princeton Review's annual college rankings released earlier this month, although some probably wish they had not.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute's nuclear science and engineering programs will get a boost of nearly $600,000 from a federal agency.

Movers and shakers in Central Massachusetts from July 9 to July 23.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute President Laurie Leshin has been named to a National Science Foundation advisory panel to encourage scientific and technological innovation in education.

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have developed a more efficient way to produce a widely used cancer drug by genetically engineering cells from a tree.

In April, Vig decided to move Allegro's 286 employees making computer semiconductors from the firm's 53-year-old Worcester home to Marlborough, continuing Marlborough's regional pull.

In compiling our annual list of the most powerful people in the Central Massachusetts business community, there are countless CEOs, executive directors, presidents and founders to choose, from organizations with billions in revenue and offices across the globe.

If a college president might be assumed to be stuffy, or for the head of a technical college to be a man, Leshin – the head of Central Massachusetts' largest school with 5,150 full-time undergrads and a $485-million endowment – flips both of those on its head.