Education

Amid high demand for registered nurses across the healthcare industry, Assumption University in Worcester will offer a post-bachelor’s accelerated nursing track through its Froelich School of Nursing beginning in June.

The Christa McAuliffe Center for Integrated Science Learning at Framingham State University will be redesigned and transformed.

This week, Worcester Polytechnic Institute announced two innovative projects addressing different, but wide-reaching, problems will receive grants of $900,000 and $700,000.

MWCC receives $500K Skills Capital grant for nursing program

Ascentria Care Alliance, a Worcester-based human service nonprofit, has named four new members to its board of directors.

As Gov. Charlie Baker signed a ban on school or athletic event discrimination based on hairstyles, Deanna Cook was taken back to the first time she got detention as a high school sophomore because her braids did not conform to her school's policy.

The research commercialization division of UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester granted $2.2 million to seven awardees to advance healthcare innovations.

The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester raised more than $58 million over the 2022 fiscal year.

House and Senate negotiators remain "far apart" on legislation that would legalize sports betting, Speaker Ron Mariano said Thursday, and there's no timeline for action on half a dozen other major bills bottled up in private talks.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute will begin offering four certification programs for cannabis professionals – covering business, law and policy, agriculture, and health care – starting Sept. 5 for this fall semester.