Education

Commonwealth Medicine, the consulting and operations division of UMass Medical School in Worcester, will shift 500 employees to a work-from-home hybrid model, taking them out of the school’s 333 South St. location in Shrewsbury.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester has received $150,000 and a $25-million state bond investment to renovate and create a new advanced manufacturing and robotics center, the school announced on Monday.

A sociology professor at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to study climate planning in Worcester and Tampere, Finland.

Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester announced on Wednesday it will use funding from the Federal Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund to relieve college-held debt for students enrolled in credit degree or certificate programming between March 13, 2020 and through the end for the spring 2021 semester. 

To better represent its patient population, the board of directors at the Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center has made an effort during the past three years to diversify and include a greater variety of perspectives under the leadership of chair Valerie Zolezzi-Wyndham.

A Worcester State University-hosted vaccine clinic run by Saint Vincent Hospital is closing June 10, after administering over 83,000 coronavirus vaccines, Saint Vincent announced on Thursday.

Nicholas Lazzaro, a student at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, founded his own automobile service business, Nick's On-Site Detailing, in order to put himself through college.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has named Mimi Sheller, a professor and head of the department of Drexel University in Philadelphia, as the inaugural dean of The Global School, WPI announced on Wednesday.

This summer, Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester will offer a fully-funded administrative medical professional training program.

Nichols College in Dudley has scored Massachusetts 45/100 on the latest iteration of the school’s biennial Massachusetts Women’s Leadership Index, which is overseen by the college’s Institute for Women’s Leadership.