Education

Worcester Polytechnic Institute is expanding its commitment to generating innovative technology, this time with a three-year, multi-million dollar initiative to develop an artificial intelligence math tutor designed to support middle school students struggling with math and unable to afford private tutoring.  

After previous Nichols College President Glenn Sulmasy resigned amid a sex and academic scandal, the Dudley-based school named William Pieczynski at its ninth president.

Applewild School, a private, co-ed boarding and day school located in Fitchburg and Devens, has received an $11-million tax-exempt bond from MassDevelopment to upgrade its Fitchburg campus. 

A first-of-its kind lithium-metal battery recycling process may be on the horizon as SES AI will fund a two-year research initiative at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to develop the new technology. 

Two Worcester Polytechnic Institute professors are amongst 10 project awardees receiving $2.8 million in grants from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to support their research advancing women’s health outcomes. 

The honor is granted by the College of Ministers & Laity at Morehouse College, a private Georgia HBCU and the largest men’s liberal arts college in the country.

Clark responded to a Wall Street Journal article with a statement to WBJ denying Mary Jane Rein’s claims, including admonishments and emphasized the university’s freedom of expression policy.

Now professor and chair of the Department of Dermatology at UMass Chan, Harris has founded a vitiligo pharmaceutical company and is about to launch a 1,000-person vitiligo study.

This move will see the end of Clark’s relationship with Sodexo, a French company that had provided hospitality services for the school since 2007. 

On Wednesday, UMass Chan announced the creation of the university’s Health AI Assurance Laboratory: a lab designed to evaluate processes and impacts of health AI technology to advance efforts for more accountable, unbiased, and efficacious patient care.