Greater Worcester

The Worcester-based Reliant Medical Group Foundation has awarded $70,000 in its latest round of community grants to Central Massachusetts organizations in support of curbing childhood obesity and increasing access to health care.

The University of Massachusetts system has added 23 new online degree and certificate programs to meet increasing demand for online education, according to Shrewsbury-based UMassOnline, the system's Internet learning consortium.

The DCU Center has entered into an exclusive, multiyear coffee partnership with Plainville-Based Honey Dew Donuts.

With the costs of college climbing, Worcester Polytechnic Institute students may be making a worthwhile investment before they graduate, according to a ranking by PayScale.com.

A Worcester group focused on innovation will co-host a forum Thursday night that will address how the intersection of arts and the STEM disciplines – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – can enhance creative innovation.

Two Central Massachusetts community health organizations are among five statewide that will share in $178,000 from the charitable arm of the CVS pharmacy chain aimed at supporting community health and expanding access to quality health care nationwide.

Worcester-based ThermoEnergy Corp., which makes wastewater-treatment and power-generation systems, saw its revenue plummet in 2013.

A Worcester business was indicted for allegedly failing to pay more than $805,000 into the commonwealth's unemployment trust fund, the Attorney General's office announced Monday.

A former executive at Google who is also an expert on cybersecurity, privacy and public policy will join the Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty as a professor of cybersecurity policy, the school announced.

Worcester-based energy management services firm, World Energy Solutions reported lower revenue for the fourth quarter of last year, although full-year revenue increased, the company said today.