Education

The Outstanding Women in Business awards have long been one of WBJ’s hardest honors to win.

WPI is following through with its purchase of two Gateway Park hotels.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester has received a slice of $2.6 million in state funding to train formerly incarcerated individuals returning to the workforce for jobs in the culinary, construction, manufacturing, hospitality, and healthcare industries.

As the U.S. faces an ongoing behavioral health provider shortage, one Worcester program is working to boost BIPOC representation in the mental health field.

Clark University in Worcester officially opened a downtown space for its Small Business Development Center on Thursday.

In an effort to help combat mounting concerns regarding manufacturing facility fire and explosion risks and close the gap between the manufacturing industry and academia, Worcester Polytechnic Institute has introduced the nation’s first master’s degree program in explosion protection engineering. 

A year and a half after UMass Chan Medical School received official approval to open a Burlington regional campus, school is in session for the first cohort of 32 medical students at UMass Chan-Lahey, a partnership between the Worcester university and Lahey Hospital & Medical Center. 

The discount will apply to courses offered through Clark’s School of Professional Studies’ undergraduate transfer/degree completion program.

An extended leave enables people to find their identities and focus on personal health, something they can not do in shorter chunks of time off, according to a lecturer at Harvard Business School.

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have received a $2-million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop tools for research and law enforcement in an effort to combat the multi-billion-dollar illegal wildlife trade.