Greater Worcester

Quinsigamond Community College has recommended a new president, Luis Pedraja, to replace longtime head Gail Carberry, who is leaving at the end of the school year.

The Worcester area added 1,600 jobs in February, bumping total employment to 280,300.

Jillian's, a billiards, bar and arcade center on Grove Street in Worcester, will close at the end of the month, it said on its website.

The Worcester City Council is expected to approve a 20-year tax break for a new facility in the South Worcester Industrial Park for research-and-development, high-tech industrial and other uses.

The deadline for nominations for Worcester Business Journal's 40 Under Forty awards is May 5.

Neil Rogers, the executive chef of Niche Hospitality Group, has left to be the kitchen operations manager of the Worcester Regional Food Hub, a commercial kitchen facility for food startups.

A research team at WPI has grown heart tissue attached to spinach leaves, which researchers involved in the project said overcomes a key challenge in human tissue regeneration.

Worcester's Clark University is the 10th best college for adjunct faculty, based on a new report by the website Goodcall.com.

National Grid's Sustainability Hub unveiled a semi-transparent solar awning on Friday, which National Grid says is the first of its kind in Massachusetts.

Middlesex County added nearly 9,000 residents in a 12-month period ending last July, an average of 24 people a day, according to new U.S. Census data.