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Employees are on the move at Akoya Biosciences, Milford Regional Medical Center, and MutualOne Bank, with new hires joining operations and promotions happening within organizations.

JENNIFER DiFRANCO has been named director of development at Worcester Academy, effective Aug. 1. DiFranco, a current Worcester Academy parent and Sutton resident, joins the school from College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, where she has been a leading higher educational advancement professional for the past 18 years. Before that, she worked at Boston College and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. DiFranco is a graduate of Holy Cross. 

With a deeply rooted commitment to the Greater Worcester community, Kristine Bostek has been a champion for the region’s most vulnerable elderly population during the coronavirus pandemic.

WORCESTER – State Sen. Harriette L. Chandler, D-Worcester, and several other lawmakers have filed a bill aimed at alleviating food insecurity at public colleges and universities in the state. “An Act establishing the Massachusetts Hunger-Free Campus Initiative” includes steps like creating a hunger prevention task force, developing student meal credit-sharing programs, and establishing emergency funds for students in need of financial support. It also would provide funding to help schools implement those measures. "Access to food is a fundamental survival need and all students deserve a...

WORCESTER – The Trustees of Clark University was one of two Massachusetts recipients of eight-figure awards in the latest funding round of the U.S. Department of Labor’s H-1B One Workforce Grant Program. The grants, which total $145 million, are intended to help train workers for jobs in industries like information technology, advanced manufacturing and transportation. “The U.S. Department of Labor is challenging communities to think as ‘One Workforce’,” Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training John Pallasch said in a statement. “In a post-coronavirus world, it ...