Education

Massachusetts unemployment rate has been at 3.5 percent for eight straight months, according to the state's Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.

Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday signed a $623-million life sciences bond bill to provide funding for education, research and development and workforce training for the industry.

Clark University will offer two new certificates in health informatics and educational leadership this fall.

A new partnership between the Worcester Art Museum and Seven Hills Foundation will see the two organizations and its affiliates seek to improve the lives of people with disabilities through arts and culture.

Insurance agency Unum says it has donated nearly $1 million to Central Massachusetts nonprofit organizations.

Two Central Massachusetts life sciences companies have landed more than $3.8 million of $20 million in state tax incentives to help create more jobs for the industry.

Fifteen local artists hope to create the largest paper airplane ever assembled, taking ideas from some of Central Massachusetts' largest manufacturers and paper from historic paper-making businesses in the Fitchburg area.

Despite complaints from an animal rights group about the deaths of 30 research animals -- mostly mice -- over the course of a year, UMass Medical School is in the clear.

The MetroWest STEM Education Network, which aims to prepare for students for jobs in science, technology, engineering and math, has joined a national alliance with 67 other groups.

Microsoft has chosen the Boys & Girls Club of Worcester to pilot the company's Learning, Accessibility, STEM and STEAM instructional technology tools.