Education

A team of Worcester Polytechnic Institute students, faculty and staff are among 20 finalists in a NASA-sponsored robotics challenge -- the only such team from a university, the space agency announced Tuesday.

Worcester Business Journal on Monday hired an award-winning Massachusetts business journalist to lead its digital operations.

The Worcester economy had its strongest year since the Great Recession, finishing out with 2.1-percent growth in the fourth quarter, according to Assumption College's Worcester Economic Index.

Profit-driven health care is a growing local and national trend that doesn't necessarily carry ill effects.

Any business offering a similar at a lower price will almost always succeed in the marketplace. Sure, mitigating factors like taxes, regulation and global competition can throw a company off-track; but for services inherently local – like health care – quality and efficiency are central to a winning formula.

Businesses, schools reaching out to non-vocational students and displaced workers to get them interested in manufacturing careers.

With more than 110 craft breweries in Massachusetts providing nearly 3,400 jobs between brewing and distributing, the industry in our state is burgeoning.

A history professor at the College of the Holy Cross will become the president of Regis College in Toronto, the Worcester college announced on Wednesday.

In his State of the Commonwealth address on Tuesday, Gov. Charlie Baker called for a new $4,000 tax credit for businesses that hire unemployed veterans.

Worcester State University will honor an alumnus who donated $1 million to fund STEM research and education.