Education

James Coghlin Sr., co-founder and chairman of Worcester manufacturing conglomerate Coghlin Cos., and wife Nancy have donated $25,000 to his alma mater Nichols College to establish the James '67 and Nancy Coghlin Endowed Scholarship for incoming or transfer students.

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.

The SHINE Initiative, a Worcester agency raising awareness of mental health conditions, has named a new executive director.

Twelve Central Mass. businesspersons have landed new roles at organizations like Reliant Medical Group, the Worcester County Bar Association and Rollstone Bank & Trust.

Framingham State University and the MetroWest Nonprofit Network are forming a partnership to help train a next generation of nonprofit workers in the area.

Good Chemistry has been leasing their 9 Harrison St. space in Worcester for five years. On Thursday, the city's first medical marijuana dispensary will finally open.

The House and Senate stumbled across the finish line Tuesday night as talks over health care and education funding reforms collapsed.

Fitchburg State University has added two new deans and an athletic director this summer.

The Senate's chairman of the Economic Development Committee said a $600 million economic development bill's investments and policy sections are "really going to get at the heart of the imbalance we all feel in our economy right now."

A plan to renovate a former Fitchburg school into affordable housing has taken a step forward.