Education

Framingham State University has received a $1.5-million federal grant to train 50 area teachers on teaching students English as a second language.

The City of Worcester and the Central Massachusetts Workforce Investment Board are receiving about $327,000 in state funding for a program training pharmacy technicians.

Tracy L. Hutchinson has joined the Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) Board of Trustees.

A group of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Stanford University have developed a device that selects faster, healthier sperm to be used during in vitro fertilization.

There are more local options for women when it comes to issues of timing, such as the retrieval, freezing and preservation of ovarian eggs for later fertilization.

Framingham State University President Javier Cevallos has joined a nationwide alliance of college presidents calling on Congress to pass legislation protecting students who are so-called Dreamers.

Hoping to cash in on the new federal tax law, some Bay State workers have shown a growing interest in forming limited liability companies in time for the tax year that starts Monday, but a top state official is urging them to look before they LLC.

To better align the company for industry shifts, Worcester-based non-profit child welfare company Youth Opportunities Upheld, Inc. (YOU) has appointed two vice presidents.

Worcester Business Journal's annual Economic Forecast issue gives us a chance to take a step back and reflect on everything that happened in the past year, which we use to predict what will come for the Central Massachusetts business community in 2018.

Smaller campuses may struggle with declining interest from international students, and colleges will have to work to find the right balance between speech rights and harmful actions.