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🔒WBJ names the 40 Under Forty, Class of 2025

Throughout the Aug. 25 edition of WBJ, you’ll read about the best of what humanity can be, personified through WBJ’s 40 Under Forty, Class of 2025. The winners are executives, entrepreneurs, and advocates who are making their marks on our lives and doing so in kind, generous ways.

🔒Many generations, one workforce: Communications issues, clashes over values, and how to navigate the most age-diverse workforce ever

This unprecedented intergenerational workforce comes with a wealth of different workforce norms and expectations that arguably make it the most ideologically and culturally heterogenous workforce to date.

WPI biomedical engineering professor receives $630K grant for fibrosis study

Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher Catherine Whittington has been awarded a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

Mass. issues statewide AI guidance for educators

Artificial intelligence in classrooms is no longer a distant prospect, and Massachusetts education officials on Monday released statewide guidance urging schools to use the technology thoughtfully, with an emphasis on equity, transparency, academic integrity and human oversight. 
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Inc. magazine names 17 Central Mass. companies among annual list of fastest-growing businesses

Inc. magazine’s 2025 list of the fastest-growing companies includes 17 Central Massachusetts businesses, with a Worcester-based company leading the local pack with its first-ever appearance on the list.

Westborough optics firm names Allegro MicroSystems executive to replace retiring CFO

Westborough-based optics firm has named Erich Manz, a former executive at New Hampshire-based Allegro MicroSystems, as its replacement for its retiring CFO.

CHIA: Black and Hispanic residents faced the most unmet health-related needs in 2023

Nearly 40% of Massachusetts residents dealt with at least one unmet health-related social need in 2023, with that rate disproportionately magnified among Black and Hispanic Bay Staters, according to a new report from state health officials.

Devens fusion firm names former Trump official, Microsoft CFO to board

Liddell, who served as assistant to the president, deputy chief of staff, director of strategic initiatives, and director of the American Technology Council under Trump, is joining the company’s board as an independent member.
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Healey introduces $400M initiative to support state research, jobs

Gov. Maura Healey wants to infuse the state's research and jobs sector with hundreds of millions of dollars as Massachusetts grapples with a tight fiscal climate and federal fluctuations in research and education support.

🔒‘We will survive’: Fresh off achieving a research milestone, WPI looks to navigate turbulent waters as Trump slashes federal research funding

Worcester Polytechnic Institute reached a significant milestone in February, when it received Research 1 status. Of course, now is anything but a normal time in the world of academic research.
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