Education

Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester was awarded a $2.4 million contract from the United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC to lead a program aimed at developing low-cost, fast-charging batteries for electric vehicles, according to a press release. 

Members of the Massachusetts Teachers Association plan to fight budget cuts at the University of Massachusetts, which the teacher's union leadership says will weaken the five-campus system.

UMass labor representatives flagged concerns with the plans during Monday's call, urging campus leaders to embrace more defined plans for providing personal protective equipment and cleaning and to seek alternate ways to balance the budget rather than imposing cuts.

Clark University in Worcester will offer three new master’s degree programs through its School of Management, including marketing, marketing analytics and accounting analytics, the university announced on Monday. 

The coronavirus pandemic hasn't stopped a collaboration between Fitchburg State University and Rhine-Waal University in Germany. Throughout the years, delegations of the two colleges have sent representatives to discuss the transatlantic relationship between the U.S and Germany.

The number of high school students planning to attend college has remained largely unchanged by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to MassINC polling data.

The federal government agreed to rescind controversial guidelines that would have barred international students from staying in the United States if they took online-only course loads in the fall.

College of the Holy Cross, the only Division 1 college athletics program in Central Massachusetts, won't hold fall sports in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The Discovery Museum in Acton will reopen to the public at the end of the month, with free admission for all visitors through August 23.

Several area college presidents, including Marty Meehan of UMass, Javier Cevallos of Framingham State and Luis Pedraja of Quinsigamond Community College fiercely condemned this week a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy that would require non-immigrant international students to leave the country if their fall semester classes transition entirely online.