Education

he New England Innovation Academy, a private school focused on entrepreneurship, will hold its first summer programs for grades 2 through 12 at its Marlborough campus this summer.

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute professor of computer science led a team of researchers on a study using artificial intelligence to better predict suicide risk in women.

Framingham State University will offer a bachelor’s degree in sports management starting in the fall semester.

Around 50 schoolkids descended on the State House Tuesday to lobby for their climate agenda, but before they started knocking on lawmakers' doors, one 16-year-old student told the crowd that their activism was hampered by the secret nature of the Legislature's committee votes.

The Worcester Education Collaborative received a three-year $900,000 commitment from Quincy nonprofit the Nellie Mae Education Foundation to support work between the collaborative’s Education Equity Roundtable and the Worcester Public Schools.

UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester has licensed its bioinformatics data processing and analysis technology, called Foundry, to Via Scientific Inc., a Cambridge technology company.

Hopes were high in January 2020 when the Burncoat Center for Arts and Wellness opened in Worcester. Two months later, COVID struck, and those plans went out the window.

The landscape for women’s business leadership at the highest level in Central Mass. has taken a hit, but for women professionals in the region, it is yet another motivator to empower one another in traditional and non-traditional ways.

YWCA Central Mass. made it its mission to eliminate racism and empower women. It can now count not only State Sen. Robyn Kennedy but members of the Worcester's school committee and city council as former board members.

The share of Massachusetts students who take out loans to pay for public higher education has exploded in the past two decades while the combined pressure of inflation and a lack of investment have hamstrung the impact of state-funded financial aid, according to a new report.