Greater Worcester

It's no mistake that, throughout Massachusetts, there's more hospital signage showing up either on commercial sites, or on empty land that will give rise to satellite facilities under the umbrella of larger health care systems. That, in turn, is creating new business for architects and construction companies.

Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) will be a partner in a $600 million national effort to boost training in photonics, a discipline that studies and uses light for electronics and other applications.

Urban Kitchen and Bar on Worcester's Shrewsbury Street will close Friday, and the location will be leased to British Beer Co., a Massachusetts-based pub chain.

A University of Massachusetts Medical School study measuring the usefulness of Google Glass in emergency room toxicology consults is adding to speculation that the wearable device may be a good fit for the health care industry.

About 70 employers will participate in the UnCommon Job Fair on the Worcester Common Friday, Sept. 4.

The parent company of Wyman-Gordon is being sold to Berkshire Hathaway, the multinational holding company of several business lines owned by billionaire Warren Buffett, the companies announced Monday.

UMass Memorial Health Care has renewed and expanded its contract with an Atlanta-based services provider to help manage its supply chain and procurement operations, the firm announced Thursday.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has landed a grant for genetic research from the National Institutes of Health that will take aim at cancer cells, the school announced Thursday.

The greater Worcester economy grew by 4.4 percent in the second quarter of 2015, led by hiring in the health services and leisure and hospitality industries, according to the latest estimates from the Worcester Economic Index (WEI).

The Clinical Pharmacy Services division of UMass Medical School will partner with a major contracting and service organization to provide guidance on the company's clinical software platform for specialty pharmacists, the medical school announced Tuesday.