Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology

Local leaders in life sciences, climate technology, health care and workforce development advocated for close collaboration as organizations seek to close employment gaps in growing science and technology fields for Black and Brown communities in the city.

Roxbury’s NuSquare Life Science Training Center has recently received $50 million to support training Franklin Cummings Tech students, most of them of color, and other college students and adult workers to enter the major growth industry locally.

In Nubian Square, the site of the new campus of Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology has been cleared, with the foundation soon to be laid. Across Eustis Street lies the Blair parking lot, where an office building is to rise, providing lab and classroom space for the college’s biotechnology students.

Students at Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology will soon have an opportunity to get an associate degree in biotechnology, a new initiative that aims to diversify one of the region’s largest industries.