UMass Boston lands $2.25M donation to start apprenticeship program

UMass Boston interim chancellor Katherine Newman has spent her year-and-a-half tenure on the campus trying to build a bridge between the school and entry-level jobs for students at Boston companies.

Baystate Business: Gaming and Racing

Developer Tom O’Connell describes proposed $300 million economic development project in Southeastern Massachusetts.

UMass Boston chancellor works to link school with business community

Columbia Point sits just a few miles from the Financial District and its gleaming skyscrapers. For many University of Massachusetts Boston students, though, those office towers can feel like they are half a world away. Maybe not for much longer. Not if interim chancellor Katherine Newman has her way.

Could Katherine Newman be the right fit to lead UMass Boston?

Late on Sunday night a couple of weeks ago, Katherine Newman was working late, dealing with a frequent concern at UMass Boston: lousy construction.

Report shows opioid crisis is costing Mass. workforce billions in lost productivity

The toll that the opioid epidemic is taking on the Massachusetts economy now has a cost in dollars: $2.7 billion a year in lost business productivity from employees who aren’t functioning at full capacity, and $5.9 billion in lost productivity from people who aren’t even in the workforce.

Somerville company offers free tuition at UMass Boston

Like many other bosses around here, Triumvirate Environmental’s chief executive, John McQuillan, is finding it increasingly tough to find the workers he needs. McQuillan, though, is taking an unusual approach to solving his problem: He’s offering to pay tuition and fees, currently about $13,000 a year, for undergraduate students at the University of Massachusetts Boston […]

Clinicians join police ranks as law enforcement takes on new mental health role

Law enforcement officials say the movement represents a dramatic shift for police officers, who have been increasingly on the front line of mental health work now that mental hospitals have closed in a nationwide push to treat the mentally ill in their communities. Now police officers are often the first people the mentally ill encounter […]

Insurer To Encourage Prescription Drugs To Help With Opioid Addiction

A multi-pronged initiative that Neighborhood Health Plan is announcing Friday aims to reduce the number of opioid overdose deaths by increasing access to treatment.

Five Questions With: Talita Guerrero

Talita Guerrero is the founder of Right Key Mortgage LLC in Lakeville, Mass., where she currently serves as a partner and senior loan officer. A licensed mortgage broker in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Georgia and Florida, the firm finances residential and commercial loans.

South Shore Mental Health changes name as part of rebranding

South Shore Mental Health has changed its name to Aspire Health Alliance in an an effort to highlight its focus on integrating mental and physical health, reducing the stigma associated with behavioral health disorders and creating alliances with community providers.

Startups from UMass Boston’s Venture Development Center hit $1B in funding

Member companies of the Venture Development Center, the self-funded incubator based at the University of Massachusetts Boston, reached a milestone in May: More than $1 billion in funding in ten years.

Regret Free Holiday Parties

Cheryl Pinarchick, partner in the Fisher Phillips law firm, explains how to hold a holiday office party even your company lawyer could love.

Neighborhood Health Plan to waive some copays

Neighborhood Health Plan is offering new insurance options that waive members’ out-of-pocket costs for a slate of common treatments and prescription drugs, an unusual step aimed at drawing new customers. Typically, members of commercial health plans must pay copayments and other costs to see a doctor or obtain a prescription. But Neighborhood said it will […]

Harnessing an important resource

The road to a level playing field for New England’s colleges and universities goes through the city of Holyoke. A massive data processing center has been humming there for five years, built to take advantage of the former industrial city’s inexpensive electricity. Five of the state’s biggest schools — MIT, Harvard, BU, Northeastern and UMass […]

Hospital owner eyes cutting-edge therapies

Boston-based medical giant Partners HealthCare is doling out $1 million in grants to get cutting-edge therapies from food allergy cures to scarless biopsies on the market within five to seven years, and at least three new local biotech companies are expected to emerge as a result.

Will Grad Students Lose the Right to Unionize Under Trump?

Trevor Hull wakes up every morning and goes to a lab where he mixes chemicals together, using materials like lead and cadmium to synthesize other substances. A man who he calls his boss sometimes gives him directions and orders, and he’s paid on a bi-weekly basis. He says he feels like he works at a […]

Searching for Life around the Stars

To the epic search for life on other planets, Mark Veyette brings some of science’s most formidable technology: 300-pound infrared telescopes in Hawaii. The supercomputer center BU helped create in Holyoke, Mass. And his cell phone.

HubSpot’s Mike Volpe lands another CMO job

We can’t resist pointing out the irony of Mike Volpe’s new gig. A memory refresher: Volpe (right) was fired as HubSpot’schief marketing officer last year after the Cambridge marketing software firm allegedly tried to block publication of a book — “Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble” by writer and former HubSpot employee Dan Lyons — that skewered its “frat-house-meets-cult-compound” culture.

Disparity in Salaries Between Genders Has Provoked Debate

In the past year, the persistent wage gap between male and female earners has become a topic of national conversation. In the past year, the persistent wage gap between male and female earners has become a topic of national conversation. Prominent actors including Patricia Arquette, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper have openly criticized Hollywood for underpaying its […]

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