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2024 Power 100: Dr. Michael Collins
Updated: April 29, 2024Under Collins' leadership, the UMass Chan footprint has grown, making space for cutting-edge research, and new partnerships are bringing students to valuable training sites in other parts of the state.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Parth Chakrabarti
Updated: April 29, 2024Formerly an executive with top biopharmaceutical companies such as Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi Genzyme, and Johnson & Johnson, Parth Chakrabarti has dedicated his life to developing and bringing to market therapies for multiple diseases in
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Kimberly Salmon
Updated: April 29, 2024As head of the The Hanover Insurance Group's charitable foundation, Salmon leads the mission to benefit communities where Hanover has a major presence, touching on academic support, job opportunities for diverse youth, and health resources.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Paula Fitzpatrick
Updated: April 29, 2024Fitzpatrick plays a vital role in helping WPI create a culture of health and well-being, something the school grappled with in the wake of seven student deaths in less than a year, nearly all of them suspected to be suicides.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Jessica Pepple
Updated: April 29, 2024RFK Community Alliance’s hire of Jessica Pepple into a newly created top leadership position is a model for how to infuse diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into an organizational culture.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Rachel Monarrez
Updated: April 29, 2024The former superintendent in San Bernardino, California, now brings a vision for creating a more inclusive school district.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Joseph Corazzini
Updated: April 29, 2024Joseph Corazzini had big shoes to fill when he stepped into his role in November 2021, and now the university’s long-held positive relationship with the low-income Main South neighborhood hangs in the balance.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Vincent Rougeau
Updated: April 29, 2024A strategic plan launched in February 2023 reinforces the school’s commitment to education as well as community. Among other things, Holy Cross will strengthen recruitment efforts of students and employees from Worcester, which helps meet one of
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Jessica Sassi
Updated: April 29, 2024Now, the next generation of the organization falls to Vincent Strully’s hand-picked successor: Jessica Sassi, who took over the top leadership role in 2023.
Updated: April 29, 2024
2024 Power 100: Timothy Murray
Updated: April 29, 2024A longtime inside power broker in Worcester and beyond, Timothy Murray pushes hard for economic development, with his latest efforts including the launch of a news organization and the development of a fund for workforce development.
Updated: April 29, 2024
Husband and wife to develop AI math tutor with WPI, $4M in funding
April 25, 2024Worcester Polytechnic Institute is expanding its commitment to generating innovative technology, this time with a three-year, multi-million dollar initiative to develop an artificial intelligence math tutor designed to support middle school students
April 25, 2024
Nichols College picks interim leader as next president
April 23, 2024After previous Nichols College President Glenn Sulmasy resigned amid a sex and academic scandal, the Dudley-based school named William Pieczynski at its ninth president.
April 23, 2024
Fitchburg school receives $11M from MassDevelopment for dorm building, other upgrades
April 23, 2024Applewild School, a private, co-ed boarding and day school located in Fitchburg and Devens, has received an $11-million tax-exempt bond from MassDevelopment to upgrade its Fitchburg campus.
April 23, 2024
WPI professor and Ascend Elements co-founder to research new battery recycling tech for Boston firm
April 22, 2024A first-of-its kind lithium-metal battery recycling process may be on the horizon as SES AI will fund a two-year research initiative at Worcester Polytechnic Institute to develop the new technology.
April 22, 2024
WPI receives slice of $2.8M women’s health grants for bipolar treatment development
April 17, 2024Two Worcester Polytechnic Institute professors are amongst 10 project awardees receiving $2.8 million in grants from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center to support their research advancing women’s health outcomes.
April 17, 2024
Dean College president inducted into MLK Jr. Collegium of Scholars
April 16, 2024The honor is granted by the College of Ministers & Laity at Morehouse College, a private Georgia HBCU and the largest men’s liberal arts college in the country.
April 16, 2024
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