Education

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute working to develop personal assistant robots for the elderly have received a five-year federal funding award.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has won a five-year, $3 million federal grant toward development of a minimally invasive, robotic surgical approach to treating brain tumors, the school announced.

FolderWave, Inc., a Westford IT firm that provides cloud-based services to secondary and higher education clients, has received a financial boost from two Massachusetts Institute of Technology trustees. FolderWave President Bob Burke declined to disclose the amounts, but said the funding, provided by James A. Champy and Susan E. Whitehead, both prominent business leaders as well as MIT trustees, is significant and will be used to beef up FolderWave's sales and marketing operations.

A longtime local dance studio has been passed down from its founders to one of its former students.

In this age when information is instant and mobile devices — in some cases more than one...

During his nine-year tenure at the helm of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Dennis Berkey was lauded for guiding...

In March, the former Colleges of Worcester Consortium announced a restructuring plan that the organization's leaders said...

The state's unemployment rate hit its highest level in nearly two years in July as the economy gained just 300 jobs, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said.

Two Worcester-based organizations recently received funding for repairs and renovations from the Children's Investment Fund (CIF).

Worcester's College of the Holy Cross is getting a boost in its efforts to grow its fine and performing arts curriculum and strengthen its ties to the area's cultural institutions through a $600,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.