Education

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded $1.6 million over five years to Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner to prepare high school students for postsecondary education that leads to careers in the fields of math and science.

The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester will expand its financial aid support of low-income students and students with undocumented status by $40 million.

As restaurants face worker shortages, Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester has received $160,000 from the state’s Re-Entry Workforce Development Demonstration Program to train former inmates of the Worcester County Jail & House of Corrections in culinary skills.

U.S. News & World Report on Monday released its annual ranking, and several Central Massachusetts colleges and universities placed on both the main lists and its various sublists.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Patricia Zhang Musacchio has been awarded $1.8 million by the National Institutes of Health for her research creating a process to help scientists create new drugs.

The Clark University Graduate Workers United union, supported by the Teamsters Local 170 of Worcester, voted overwhelmingly on Monday to authorize the union to call a strike in its negotiations with the administration at Clark University in Worcester.

The Clark University Graduate Workers Union in Worcester has announced it plans to hold a strike authorization vote on Monday.

The couples were pulled from a larger study of pregnant patients who received outpatient care at UMass Memorial Medical Center.

On July 26, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed this same CROWN Act into law to prohibit discrimination against employees, students, and other individuals based on their natural or protective hairstyle.

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have created a new way to convert food waste into renewable fuel.