Education

The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education voted Tuesday to approve Dr. James Vander Hooven as the third president of Mount Wachusett Community College, during a special meeting in Boston. He will take over the position March 19.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.1 million to a Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor for a five-year study of bacteria in stressful conditions, the school announced Wednesday.

The Nativity School of Worcester has named Patrick T. Maloney as its new president effective immediately, according to a statement released Monday.

More than 50 years after Worcester won a bid to bring the University of Massachusetts Medical School within city limits, the medical school is making its way to Springfield.

Anna Maria College in Paxton said it has received a $1,500 from the Schwartz Charitable Foundation in Worcester to complete the purchase of new teaching software.

With the help of a $1.5-million tax-exempt bond from MassDevelopment issued on Tuesday, Worcester early education nonprofit The Guild of St. Agnes will buy a 19,600-square-foot child care center.

Wellesley not-for-profit insurance provider Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, which has operations in Central Massachusetts, announced Tuesday it has hired a chief business growth officer.

Raising the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour would increase costs for about 70 percent of Massachusetts businesses, forcing some to hold off on hiring or consider moving elsewhere, two surveys conducted by the Associated Industries of Massachusetts found.

Kiplinger's Personal Finance has ranked The College of the Holy Cross and Clark University in Worcester as two of the best U.S. college values of 2017, according to an announcement Thursday.

Worcester-based autism services provider Behavioral Concepts Inc. (BCI) will celebrate the opening of its new Fitchburg location with an open house and ribbon cutting on Jan. 17.