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By Livia Gershon This story appeared in the Special Section: Worcester Emerging, detailing the buzz building around the city. To see the entire section, click here When Becker College in Worcester announced it will be closing its doors in August, the Massachusetts Digital Games Institute had a big question to answer. The statewide center for video game entrepreneurship, known as MassDiGi, had been based at the college since its start a decade ago. Where would it go now? “We were...

By Devina Bhalla This story appeared in the Special Section: Worcester Emerging, detailing the buzz building around the city. To see the entire section, click here As Worcester grows, so does its appeal to investors and developers. “For the most part, I can’t ask for any more than a location like Worcester,” said Mark Nedelman, CEO of Biomere, a biomedical company with 100 employees on Union Street. This idea for why it is important for the city to capitalize on Worcester’...

By Susan Shalhoub This story appeared in the Special Section: Worcester Emerging, detailing the buzz building around the city. To see the entire section, click here State economic-development agency MassDevelopment – which provides financing solutions such as low-interest loans and tax credits to developers, businesses, nonprofits and communities – has been a major player in Worcester’s urban growth initiatives. Part of the city’s multilayered, collaborative approach invol...

By Devina Bhalla This story appeared in the Special Section: Worcester Emerging, detailing the buzz building around the city. To see the entire section, click here Even in the coronavirus pandemic, the heart of Worcester and its cultural and arts institutions are optimistic and committed to supporting and growing the community. “The excitement is real, and that’s what allows us to be where we are now,” said Che Anderson, assistant vice chancellor for city and community relat...

By Devina Bhalla This story appeared in the Special Section: Worcester Emerging, detailing the buzz building around the city. To see the entire section, click here Strong fundamentals, committed leadership, anchoring institutions, vibrant culture, and untapped potential: Bo Menkiti’s five reasons for why Worcester, why now. Menkiti’s message to other potential investors and developers inside and outside Central Massachusetts came during the first installment in the Worcester E...

SFChronicle wins California News Publishers Association awards for COVID-19 coverage, photography Chronicle takes home numerous honors in annual California journalism competition SFChroniclePR FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 2of5 Theo Schrager, 6, relaxes in his hammock outside the tent he is living in with his mom Leah Naomi Gonzales (not pictured) in Berkeley on Aug. 19, 2019. Gabrielle LurieShow MoreShow Less 3of5 Respiratory Therapist Charlotte Nirona, front, and registered nurse Reena Poulard t...

5/17/21 Nutley is one of the top - if not THE top - supporters for Relay for Life. As we come out of our Pandemic cocoons, why not join this might effort to help those with cancer?   The American Cancer Society (ACS) reports that "1.9 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed. And more than 600,000 people will die from cancer."  But due to the Pandemic, with so many dying from COVID-19 and also a backlog of reporting of cancer cases and deaths, the  ACS reports "These numbers do not a...

The Tribune-Review received 26 Keystone Press Awards in the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association’s annual competition, including its most prestigious recognition, the G. Richard Dew Award, for its “Tragedy at Brighton” project. The Dew Award is presented to a news organization or individual across all circulation categories that has made an outstanding

Artwork for The Health Issue City Paper competed in the category of "multi‐day publications with over 50,000 circulation" and won First Place under the Special Section category for The Health Issue, a publication with stories focused on mental health and suicide prevention. This issue was dedicated to former CP managing editor Alex Gordon who died of suicide in October 2020. The altweekly also won a second place award for graphic design, and ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Volunteer monitoring programs, such as eBird, typically rely on observations made by nonscientist members of the public. view more  Credit: Kayla Farmer Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called "citizen science") has exploded in popularity, aided both by smartphones and rapid gains in computing power that make the analysis of large data sets far easier. Publishing in BioScience, handling editors Rick Bonney, of Cornell University, Fi...