Gov. Deval Patrick announces life sciences funding at Holyoke Community College
Summary
Deval L. Patrick announced Thursday during a visit to Holyoke Community College more than $9 million in grants for life sciences-related capital projects in Western Massachusetts. Patrick said the grants, paid for with money from the sale of state bonds, fit in with his current budget and its emphasis on spending on infrastructure and especially on education. Its space to be vacated by moving nursing and radiology programs to the former Grynn & Barrett photo studio building the college recently purchased. "Our goal is to create unique resources here that can help build an innovation economy," said Susan R. Windham-Bannister, president and CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center. Timothy Murray visited with students and educators at the Homer Street Elementary School in Springfield to celebrate Black History Month.