The Fitchburg State College Alumni Association recently helped students realize their college dreams by awarding 90 scholarships totaling $65,000.

Rollstone Bank, formerly known as Fitchburg Savings Bank, has established a speaker series at Fitchburg State College that will attract the nation’s foremost thinkers and leaders on business management, banking, financial services, investments and nonprofit administration.

Fitchburg State has been awarded an $82,725 grant from the Fairlawn Foundation of Worcester to help curb the shortage of clinical nurses and qualified nursing faculty in Worcester County.

Five brothers from Pennsylvania have teamed up to honor their mother with a gift to Fitchburg State College.

In the future, miners trapped in caves may be rescued more quickly and the visually impaired may gain increased mobility thanks to researchers at Fitchburg State harnessing—literally—the talents of those often-feared creatures of the night—bats.