Education

University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan has committed the university to funding $10.9 million in retroactive pay denied to faculty and staff by the previous president, expressing confidence that the state will help foot the bill.

Two groups of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have each received $1 million in grant money raised during last summer's viral Ice Bucket Challenge campaign, funds that will support ALS research projects that the school's chancellor on Wednesday called "pivotal work."

Michael W. Ames has been named the seventh executive director and CEO of Perkins, the Lancaster-based human services agency that includes the Doctor Franklin Perkins School.

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The University of Massachusetts, with its five campuses and nearly 73,000 undergraduate and graduate students, struck a defiant tone Thursday as it faced mounting political pressure to reconsider tuition and fee hikes approved earlier this summer.

The Worcester Regional Transit Authority is adding bus route that will run between three of the city's colleges throughout the academic year, in an agreement with the Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts (HECCMA).

Celebrating 40 years last week, the New England Center for Children is growing its Southborough footprint to boost autism intervention and research for the benefit of children across the globe.

Central Massachusetts, especially Worcester, is home to a number of nonprofits and other tax-exempt organizations. Last year, more than 30 percent of all land in the city was tax exempt.

From town hall gatherings on the presidential campaign trail in New Hampshire to hearing rooms at state capitols and city halls across the country, identifying solutions to the problem of college affordability and student debt has become not just an educational challenge, but an economic one.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has landed a grant for genetic research from the National Institutes of Health that will take aim at cancer cells, the school announced Thursday.