The Worcester carpenters union said it has filed an unfair labor practice complaint against a contractor for a downtown apartment project after a carpenter working on the site was allegedly fired for trying to improve conditions for employees at the project.
An animal rights group is calling on UMass Medical School to permanently ban a researcher from working with animals after the school reported violations in an experiment involving rats to the National Institutes of Health.
Jean King, the current vice provost for biomedical research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, has been named the Peterson Family Dean of Arts and Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.