Education

Graduate students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are holding a vote Wednesday and Thursday on whether to officially form their own union.

Voting for the WBJ’s 2023 Best of Business awards, which seeks to highlight institutions throughout Central Massachusetts based on reader votes, will close this coming Monday, Nov. 14.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.8 million over four years to a team of researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York to develop a platform for nonprofits to share resources.

Thirty students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute will participate in nonprofit AI4ALL’s College Pathways program, with no cost to them, which encourages diversity and inclusion in the field of artificial intelligence and explores the impact of diversity in the field, according to an Oct. 24 release by the school.

Real estate leads in Central Massachusetts, while professional services lead the statewide economy.

The once humble battery is becoming more and more important as we try to move away from fossil fuels to power our lives, and specifically to power how we move across the earth.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has selected Tony Laing into its newly created role of assistant vice president for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging on a full-time basis.

Framingham State University has named Jeffrey Coleman, the Kennesaw State University deputy chief diversity officer, as FSU’s vice president for diversity, inclusion, and community engagement.

The unemployment rate in Massachusetts in September dropped to 3.4%, down two tenths of a percentage point from August and down 1.7% from September 2021.

Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner has added two master technician professors to its automotive technology program.