Education

Quinsigamond Community College has been awarded a $51,968 grant from the Gov. Maura Healey Administration to develop a diversity, equity, and inclusion certificate program for local higher education faculty and staff.

The first course is centered on financial training for breweries, distilleries and cideries, led by Kary Shumway, a certified public accountant, and CFO of Wormtown Brewery in Worcester.

Now known as Thrive Support & Advocacy, the nonprofit has substantially grown under the leadership of former Worcester city councilor Sean Rose.

Employees at Bowditch & Dewey, Leominster Credit Union, and JNP Coffee are making upward moves.

For Worcester business owners, operating a second-hand shop in the era of fast fashion means strategic buying, knowing the consumer base, and educating the customers is all in a day’s work.

Assumption has become the second Worcester university to drop Sodexo as a provider in 2024; Clark University announced they would be ending their relationship with the company in April.

Young people appealed to lawmakers Monday to stop cuts to youth jobs programs and help more young people compete in the economy, making a pair of Senate Democrats their "primary targets" in lobbying ahead of this week's budget debate.

A pair of potential statewide ballot questions face new complications after opponents complained about one's financial disclosure and the other's official title and summary.

A researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute is set to embark on a five-year project that seeks to advance the use of bacteria to help clean up contaminated soil, thanks to a $1.23-million grant from the National Science Foundation. 

Rates of severe maternal morbidity in the state nearly doubled from 2011 to 2020, with Black birthing people among the most impacted by negative outcomes of labor and delivery.