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Movers & Shakers for Aug. 25, 2025
Updated: August 25, 2025Employees at financial institutions including Clinton Savings Bank, Charles River Bank, Main Street Bank, and bankHometown are taking steps forward in their careers.
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40 Under Forty 2025: Michelle Doherty
Updated: August 25, 2025Michelle Doherty has been instrumental in Worcester Polytechnic Institute becoming a national research powerhouse.
Updated: August 25, 2025
40 Under Forty 2025: Kaleigh Maio
Updated: August 25, 2025The COVID pandemic and Heywood Healthcare’s financial restructuring in Chapter 11 bankruptcy created quite the challenge for its 1,700+ employees, but Kaleigh Maio has guided the North Central Massachusetts’ health system through the turbulent
Updated: August 25, 2025
WPI biomedical engineering professor receives $630K grant for fibrosis study
August 22, 2025Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Catherine Whittington has been awarded a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
August 22, 2025
Central Mass. schools granted $6.6M to train adults for high-demand professions
August 6, 2025A total of 680 adult learners will benefit from a combined $6.6 million in funding from the Massachusetts state government, seeking to boost training in high-demand occupations within the trades, construction, and manufacturing sectors.
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Mount Wachusett college receives $5M to support students facing systemic barriers
August 4, 2025The Gardner school has received more than $5 million to support the academic success of low-income students, first-generation students, and students with disabilities.
August 4, 2025
Dr. Michael Collins is leaving an historic legacy at UMass Chan. His successor will face a new world of challenges.
Updated: July 28, 2025UMass and healthcare leaders emphasize UMass Chan’s future success depends on its next chancellor’s ability to cultivate talent, face federal challenges head-on, invest in primary care, and commit to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Updated: July 28, 2025
‘We will survive’: Fresh off achieving a research milestone, WPI looks to navigate turbulent waters as Trump slashes federal research funding
Updated: July 28, 2025Worcester Polytechnic Institute reached a significant milestone in February, when it received Research 1 status. Of course, now is anything but a normal time in the world of academic research.
Updated: July 28, 2025
WPI receives $396K from NSF for water treatment study
July 25, 2025Teng expects this new technology will be more effective than current chemical-based methods.
July 25, 2025
Heywood CEO named to MWCC board of trustees
July 15, 2025Mount Wachusett Community College has named a Central Massachusetts healthcare leader as well as one of the Gardner school’s students as the newest members to its board of trustees.
July 15, 2025
UMass Chan renames $350M research building for historic donor
July 15, 2025UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester has officially renamed its New Education and Research Building after the donor foundation’s patriarch.
July 15, 2025
Nichols to explore age-gap issues at Intergenerational Workforce Summit
July 14, 2025The summit will bring together representatives from Traditionalists, Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z for an event to address how to best manage and motivate a multigenerational workforce.
July 14, 2025
WPI selects finance professor as interim business school dean
July 11, 2025One month after the dean of Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s business school stepped down, the university has named Kwamie Dunbar as interim dean.
July 11, 2025-
Basketball coach again tops UMass Chan chancellor as highest-paid state employee
July 9, 2025While workers at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester once again made up the largest percentage of the state’s highest-paid state employees in 2024, UMass men’s basketball Head Coach Frank Martin once again topped the list.
July 9, 2025 
FSU receives $7M from millionaires tax to create affordable housing for students, faculty
July 8, 2025New low-cost academic housing will be coming to Framingham State University as the school has received $6.6 million to renovate an underutilized residence hall into apartment.
July 8, 2025
Dean College selects accomplished dancer as new leader for arts school
July 7, 2025Ursprung has been part of the Dean College faculty since 2016 and most recently served as interim assistant dean.
July 7, 2025
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