News Coverage

iBerkshires wrote about the Berkshire Innovation Center (BIC) receiving a $5.2 million transformation grant for an Advanced Optics TechHub from the Innovation Institute.

The Telegram and Gazette wrote about the Innovation Institute designating a BioHub at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) as part of the TechHubs Program to lead 24 pilot projects, train more than 500 workers and create more than 3,000 jobs over three years.

The Boston Globe covered how Massachusetts educators are navigating AI-driven plagiarism and included an interview with Massachusetts AI Hub (MA AI Hub) Director Sabrina Mansur.

A Boston Business Journal examination of Massachusetts' manufacturing job growth gap featured the Center for Advanced Manufacturing’s (CAM) workforce development programs as part of the state's response to the skills shortage. CAM Director Lily Fitzgerald is quoted .

Semiconductor Digest spotlighted the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition's (NEMC) launch of the Preparing Our Workforce for microElectronics Resiliency (POWER) program, a $1.2 million workforce initiative designed to train and upskill semiconductor manufacturing talent across the Northeast.

Boston University's Center for Information and Systems Engineering detailed BU Assistant Professor Rabia Yazicigil's role in a $6 million first-year grant from the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition (NEMC) to advance 5G and 6G wireless communications. Yazicigil collaborates with researchers from MIT and Northeastern University, as well as industry partners including Sivers Semiconductors, Ericsson and Raytheon, to develop next-generation universal decoder chips using the Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) approach.

Northeastern University's College of Engineering reported that ECE Associate Professor Xiaolin Xu and collaborators at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, UMass Amherst and Synopsys Inc. received a $236,226 grant through the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition's (NEMC) SCALE Capital program. The multi-institutional "SAIL" project focuses on securing AI chips and hardware design automation for trusted hardware.

BusinessWest published the full announcement of the Innovation Institute's grants to Western New England University, including a $500,000 AI award and $500,440 quantum investment. These awards were included along with a $250,000 Massachusetts Life Sciences Center biopharmaceutical grant bringing the total to $1.3 million.

Western New England University secured $1.3 million in artificial intelligence grants from the Innovation Institute and Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.

MassLive published an article about Western New England University receiving state grants across biopharma, AI and quantum hardware projects. The article notes a $500,000 grant from the Innovation Institute to advance the university’s work in artificial intelligence and innovation.