Education

A company founded by Worcester undergrads aims to supply rural communities with an inexpensive local source of electricity.

Researchers across Central Mass. are leading development of cutting-edge ideas and therapies to provide the next generation of solutions to present and future problems.

The University of Massachusetts has agreed to increase tuition, room and board next academic year, as leaders on Beacon Hill disagree over creating a "tuition lock" system and how much to invest in public higher education.

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester had $358 million in research and development expenditures in fiscal 2022, leading the record-breaking $813-million year throughout the entire UMass system.

The Imago School in Maynard purchased for $1.7 million the building it had been leasing for more than 25 years.

The Grenon School of Business at Assumption University in Worcester added a Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership to its fall 2023 offerings.

Gov. Maura Healey said this week that she is looking forward to working with the Legislature on ways to fund free community college for Massachusetts residents over 25, after a representative questioned if the $20 million she earmarked for the program would be enough.

Nine months after he took on the newly created role, former Worcester city manager Edward Augustus will step down as the first-ever chancellor of Dean College in Franklin effective April 14, for what he described as an uncertain future.

Grace Wang started on Monday as president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the first person of color to lead WPI on a non-interim basis.

Littleton-based Workers Credit Union promoted Robert DaSilva to the newly created position of senior vice president, chief lending officer.