Greater Worcester

Glickman, Kovago & Jacobs of Worcester has joined NAI Global, a network of owner-operated commercial real estate brokerage firms.

The mixed use building at 307 Grafton St. in Shrewsbury has been purchased by CS Holdings LLC for $2.4 million.

Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) has partnered with Clark University in Worcester to facilitate transfer opportunities for MWCC students, the community college in Gardner announced Thursday.

Two groups of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have each received $1 million in grant money raised during last summer's viral Ice Bucket Challenge campaign, funds that will support ALS research projects that the school's chancellor on Wednesday called "pivotal work."

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at the University of Massachusetts Medical School has been awarded a contract to provide a system that manages online training programs for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the medical school announced.

The state's Center for Health Information and Analysis reported last week that Central Massachusetts hospitals collectively have the lowest total margins among all regions of Massachusetts. But that doesn't mean the picture is grim. Sergio Melgar, chief financial officer for UMass Memorial Health Care, said one has to look beyond margins and operating surpluses and losses for fiscal 2014, as detailed in the center's recent report, to appreciate the bigger picture.

The Central Massachusetts Convention and Visitors Bureau is dead. Will its successor, the Worcester Regional Visitors and Tourism Corp., pump more life into the region's tourism industry?

there's an advantage to having the inside track on a job. Mary Lou Retelle owned the position of Anna Maria College interim president for nearly a year before the trustees at the small Catholic school turned to her to take the job permanently — even though more than 70 people applied for the job.

To hear Spectrum Health Systems CEO Chuck Faris tell it, Massachusetts is a relatively good place to be in the addiction treatment services industry, and to receive treatment if you need it.

Price Chopper Supermarkets has issued a recall on rotisserie chickens sold at its 50 Cambridge St. store in Worcester between 10:30 a.m. and noon on Thursday.