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Massachusetts Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy toured downtown Fitchburg this week to get a closeup look at the public and private development that is remaking the city, including the Main Street Theater Block.

Minority businesses in downtown Fitchburg will get assistance with accessing capital and other support thanks to a $100,000 Urban Agenda grant announced this month by the Baker-Polito Administration.

Since the cyber range can simulate various network environments and tools, employers may provide access to training and skills-testing in safe conditions so their employees do not experience the first attack scenario while on the job.

The success is attributed to measures including a focus on peer mentors, peer tutors, a first-year seminar for incoming students, faculty mentoring for underrepresented groups, and improved support for first-year courses.

Parsons was part of a team that recently published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science that articulates how the Red Planet has experienced five or six ice ages over the past several hundred million years

For her service project, Donelan, studying special education with a concentration in teaching students with severe disabilities, created comfort kits for teenagers transitioning into foster care.

Students Madison LaRoche and Benjamin Hill placed 5th in the nation (out of 162 entries) in the appellate brief writing competition at the national moot court tournament.

In this effort, the university will continue to serve as a research partner on projects addressing youth and young adult delinquency and crime in the Fitchburg, Leominster and Gardner areas.

To better understand January 6, we need to think of that day as part of an ongoing process, not a singularity.

We can fight these conspiracy theories, but it’s going to take action on all of our parts.