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UMass Medical School names first health equity head
September 16, 2020UMass Medical School has named a professor of population and quantitative health sciences as its first vice provost for health equity.
September 16, 2020
QCC secures $1M student support grant
September 15, 2020Quinsigamond Community College has received a $1.3-million federal grant to support first-generation or economically disadvantaged students, or those with disabilities.
September 15, 2020
Assumption's liberal arts college to be named for Big Y founders
September 14, 2020Assumption University in Worcester will name its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences after Big Y founders and longtime benevolent alumnus Donald D’Amour and his wife Michele D’Amour, the school announced on Monday.
September 14, 2020
Holy Cross, WPI, Clark drop in annual college rankings
September 14, 2020The U.S. News & World Report's annual college rankings, which are closely watched in the industry and among prospective students and their families, were less kind this year to Worcester colleges.
September 14, 2020
Presidents: Keep Mass. colleges out of sport betting
September 11, 2020The schools made their thoughts known in a letter to House Speaker Robert DeLeo, Senate President Karen Spilka and the six legislators who have been negotiating a compromise economic development bill since late July.
September 11, 2020
Nichols president retiring at end of school year
September 9, 2020Nichols College President Susan West Engelkemeyer will retire at the end of this school year following a decade leading the Dudley school, Nichols announced Wednesday.
September 9, 2020
MassBay practical nursing program ranked first in Mass.
September 3, 2020MassBay Community College’s practical nursing program has been ranked first in the state by a nursing advocacy organization.
September 3, 2020
Framingham State receives diversity award
September 3, 2020Framingham State University has received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award from the magazine INSIGHT into Diversity.
September 3, 2020
Ten of the 23 highest-paid state employees work for UMass Medical School, only two are women
August 28, 2020Out of the 23 highest-paid state employees in 2019, 10 work for UMass Medical School in Worcester, according to the WBJ Research Department, which sourced its data from the State’s Comptroller Office.
August 28, 2020
Quinsigamond Community College to open Southbridge location
August 25, 2020Quinsigamond Community College, based in Worcester, will set up a location inside Southbridge Middle High School, the college announced in conjunction with the Town of Southbridge on Tuesday.
August 25, 2020
WPI receives $877K to support cell engineering program
August 21, 2020Worcester Polytechnic Institute has received an $877,314 grant from a capital funding initiative led by the Gov. Charlie Baker Administration and the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, according to a Thursday announcement.
August 21, 2020
Mass. has worst U.S. unemployment rate for second straight month
August 21, 2020Massachusetts has the highest unemployment rate in the country for the second month in a row, despite a small decline from June to July.
August 21, 2020
Eight Central Mass. colleges make new Princeton rankings
August 19, 2020Central Massachusetts colleges have made it into the Princeton Review's annual rankings, including for best education and more niche categories — like where students study the least, get involved in Greek life or smoke the most cannabis.
August 19, 2020
Worcester businesses feel ebb and flow of students
August 19, 2020The four or five new customers a week Sal Arcuri gains each fall when college students come back to town help his spa and salon, located just down the road from Worcester State University, earn a little extra cash.
August 19, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Amanda Theinert
Updated: August 17, 2020It is Becker’s master’s in fine arts program that houses the school’s renowned video game design program, and it’s Amanda Theinert who helped build the curriculum and get the new academic program running.
Updated: August 17, 2020
40 Under Forty 2020: Dave Ryan
Updated: August 17, 2020By the time Dave Ryan was 25, he was already a corporate controller of a $50-million manufacturing company, Superior Cake Products. Ryan impressively grew United Medical Waste from a startup to a multimillion dollar company in – wait for it – five
Updated: August 17, 2020
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