Education

The National Science Foundation awarded Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner a $350,000 grant to train electric vehicle technicians.

Framingham State University named T. Stores as its new dean of the College of Arts & Humanities, replacing Marc Cote, the founding dean of that college.

Tufts University, which operates the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University in Grafton, has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as having the 18th best veterinary science graduate program in the country.

Framingham State University named Iris Godes as its new dean of strategic enrollment management, with her starting the role on May 22.

Beginning in the fall semester, Worcester Polytechnic Institute will partner with the Nigerian University of Technology and Management to offer its master’s degree in business analytics alongside NUTM’s professional certification in design thinking leadership principles.

Worcester Academy proposed a 72,000-square-foot athletic complex at the former site of Saint Vincent Hospital on Providence Street in Worcester.

Sarah Smongeski, executive director at Pakachoag Music School in Worcester since 1992, will retire this June.

Fitchburg State University received $500,000 from a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant to support the construction of a 250-seat black box theater adjacent to a historic theater in downtown Fitchburg.

Framingham State University hired Marilyn Cleary as its new dean of graduate and continuing education. Cleary will begin in her new role June 19th.

With the medical world on the cusp of an artificial intelligence revolution, researchers and clinicians are excited about the potential and wary of technology implicitly reliant on human bias