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Keeping nurses in the field: Amid rising burnout, UMass Memorial’s first-year registered nurse program works to keep high retention rates
Updated: June 24, 2024To help prepare new nurses for the reality of the profession and combat the growing problem of burnout, UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester offers its New Graduate Nurse Residency Program, which over the course of 12 months seeks to center
Updated: June 24, 2024
Q&A: Worcester medical spa works to preserve natural beauty
Updated: June 24, 2024Kasia Dodman’s life has been a series of unexpected twists and turns. An immigrant from Poland, Dodman had no family in the U.S., no money, and could not speak a word of English when she first moved to Worcester.
Updated: June 24, 2024
Providing a safe space: As anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment rises, local bar owners see their businesses as places of comfort and acceptance
Updated: June 24, 2024Anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment is on the rise nationally. Despite being known as a leading state for LGBTQ+ rights, that sentiment has trickled down to Massachusetts.
Updated: June 24, 2024
Movers & Shakers for June 24, 2024
Updated: June 24, 2024Employees at Glickman Kovago & Jacobs, Fidelity Bank, and Walker Development & Construction Management are on the move.
Updated: June 24, 2024
Central Mass. colleges downsize consortium, appoint new board chair
June 21, 2024HECCMA has eliminated its two dedicated staff positions of executive director and program support coordinator.
June 21, 2024
Dean College to merge two programs into new School of Performing Arts
June 20, 2024Dean College, the Franklin-based private higher educational institution, will create a School of Performing Arts, which will merge the School of the Arts and the Joan Phelps Palladino School of Dance.
June 20, 2024
QCC receives $171K in state funding to boost healthcare training programs
June 19, 2024Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester will now be able to upgrade to industry-standard lab equipment for its nursing assistant (CNA) certificate program and surgical technology associate degree program, as the institution has received $171,016
June 19, 2024
Nichols receives $2M alumnus estate gift for criminal justice program
June 11, 2024Nichols College has received a $2 million bequest from the estate of James Dunbar, a 1951 alumnus of the Dudley school.
June 11, 2024
UMass Chan receives $2.2M for research into rare genetic disorder Cockayne syndrome
June 11, 2024A New York nonprofit has donated $2.2 million to UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester to help fund gene therapy research on a rare and fatal genetic disorder largely impacting children and young adults.
June 11, 2024
Clark is rebranding its School of Management, in hopes of attracting students to its mission of mixing business education with societal good
Updated: June 10, 2024On June 1, Clark University renamed its School of Management as the School of Business.
Updated: June 10, 2024
Two new Worcester healthcare buildings totaling $475M aim to improve quality of and access to health care
Updated: June 10, 2024UMass Chan Medical School has unveiled its $350-million New Education and Research Building designed to advance disease research while UMass Memorial Health is in the midst of constructing a $125-million, 72-bed acute care facility.
Updated: June 10, 2024
Framingham State taps former Wentworth Institute of Technology VP as next CFO
June 7, 2024Totino has more than 40 years of working in financial management operations at colleges and universities.
June 7, 2024
Fitchburg State to launch creative art therapy and enterprise bachelor’s degrees
June 7, 2024Fitchburg State University will offer two new bachelor’s degree programs aimed at preparing students for the growing demands of the arts and healthcare industries, becoming the first public institution in Massachusetts to offer either of these
June 7, 2024
WPI chooses Syracuse dean to replace provost who left to be SUNY president
June 4, 2024Worcester Polytechnic Institute has named a dean from Syracuse University to be the university’s next provost and senior vice president, replacing Winston Oluwole “Wole” Soboyejo, who was the first person of color to be WPI president when he took
June 4, 2024
Donna Hodge confirmed as Fitchburg State's 12th president
June 4, 2024Donna Hodge, the former vice president of operations and advancement at Colorado State University Pueblo, has been confirmed as the next president of Fitchburg State University.
June 4, 2024
Biotechnology curriculum piloted in Worcester schools seek to spark interest in subject
June 4, 2024The eight-week pilot program at WPS concluded in May.
June 4, 2024
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