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Higher education

  • WPI awarded $1.2M federal grant to study low-carbon iron production

    Eric Casey April 29, 2024

    The grant is part of a federal effort to support technologies with the potential to reduce the country’s emissions by 1% annually.

    Eric Casey April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Greg Weiner

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024

    When three leaders of the country’s top universities were castigated for failing to call out antisemitism during a Congressional hearing, Greg Weiner, the nation’s first Jewish president of a Catholic college, felt compelled to comment.

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024
  • WBJ names the Power 100, the most influential Central Mass. professionals in 2024

    Brad Kane Updated: April 29, 2024

    In this first-time expansion of the previous power players list, WBJ names the professionals in Central Massachusetts who most effectively wield their power to have an outsized influence on the economy and community.

    Brad Kane Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Marlina Duncan

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024

    With Duncan’s influence, UMass Chan added a diversity, equity, and inclusion pillar to the university’s IMPACT 2025 strategic plan in 2022, picking 10 of the university’s departments to front new action plans.

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Dr. Michael Collins

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Under 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.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Michael McDermott

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Michael McDermott has helped the news media in Central Massachusetts get its swagger back.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Paula Fitzpatrick

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Fitzpatrick 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.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Barry Maloney

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    As the higher education industry struggles with falling enrollment, Worcester State University is bucking the trend.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Kola Akindele

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Akindele’s job is to nurture relationships with WPI funders, whether private foundations, government organizations, or corporate sponsors, to support research and operations, as well as to strengthen community connections.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Vincent Rougeau

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    A 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

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Debra Maddox

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Central Massachusetts born and educated, Debra Maddox has a firm hand on the pulse of the people she and her team serve at the Multicultural Wellness Center, founded in 2005.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Grace Wang

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024

    Even before she came to Worcester Polytechnic Institute in April 2023, Grace Wang saw the school as a pioneer in project-based learning.

    Nancy Campbell Updated: April 29, 2024
  • 2024 Power 100: Joseph Corazzini

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024

    Joseph 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.

    Emily Micucci Updated: April 29, 2024
  • Husband and wife to develop AI math tutor with WPI, $4M in funding

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo April 25, 2024

    Worcester 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

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo April 25, 2024
  • Nichols College picks interim leader as next president

    Eric Casey April 23, 2024

    After previous Nichols College President Glenn Sulmasy resigned amid a sex and academic scandal, the Dudley-based school named William Pieczynski at its ninth president.

    Eric Casey April 23, 2024
  • WPI professor and Ascend Elements co-founder to research new battery recycling tech for Boston firm

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo April 22, 2024

    A 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. 

    Mica Kanner-Mascolo April 22, 2024

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The President Donald Trump Administration’s campaign to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts throughout the federal government and to federally-funded institutions has put many companies and organizations committed to DEI on edge. Many have chosen to navigate Trump-era threats by reorganizing and rewording their DEI initiatives, including changing their wording to eradicate the words “diversity”, “equity”, and “inclusion” in favor of more ambiguous terms such as “fair”, “community”, and “wellbeing”.