A new partnership called the Massachusetts Internship Collaborative launched a new internship search engine for college and graduate students in the Greater Boston area, including those at Boston University, with hopes of increasing graduate retention rates in the city.The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston  collaborated to form the partnership and launch InternHub.com, said Federal Reserve Bank of Boston spokeswoman Kris MacAulsan. She said the organizations conducted extensive research on the graduate retention rates in the greater Boston area.“New England Continue reading >>>

Melissa Bayer Tearney, president,Greater Boston Legal Services Melissa Bayer Tearney, a partner at the Boston law firm Choate Hall Stewart, was recently elected president of Greater Boston Legal Services for a three-year term. She has served on the board of the nonprofit legal services group for a decade and recently talked to Globe reporter Beth Healy about her new role and her goals for the organization. What kinds of representation does Greater Boston Legal Services provide? It’s a very wide range of services that touch all social issues that the community is very concerned about, Continue reading >>>

Highlights from the Boston Real Estate Now blog. Housing bulls, you’ve had a great run lately. The Great Housing Market collapse that all those gloomy housing bears were growling about — in which prices in Greater Boston would fall another 30 to 50 percent — is like a joke right now. Boston-area home prices are on a double-digit tear, driven in part by all our knowledge industry workers. “Unemployment rates for the well-educated are strikingly low and income growth for these ‘knowledge workers’ has been solid,” notes the latest report from MassBenchmarks, an economic journal Continue reading >>>

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The Medford High cross country team got a glimpse of greatness while hanging tough with the Golden Tornados, Oct. 2. Matched up against two of the top team’s in the Greater Boston League, the Mustangs fell prey to its archrivals in both the girls and boys bracket, along the banks of the river at MacDonald Park. Malden certainly lived up to its reputation with the girls team grounding Medford, 15-50. “The girls ran hard, but Malden was the better team,” said Medford Coach Lou Ruggiero, whose club fell to 1-1 with the loss. “We had many of our girls run their Continue reading >>>

WORCESTER —  For fans of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the greater Boston area is the place to be this year: the 2013-14 season features no less than four different orchestras trotting out Beethoven's immortal "Ode to Joy" between now and next May. On Thursday, the first of this quadrumvirate — and the only one to be performed in Worcester — performed by conductor Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic, delivered a spry, stirring interpretation of this much loved score at Mechanics Hall. Chorus Pro Musica and soloists Michelle Johnson, Sarah Heltzel, Yeghishe Manucharyan and Robert Continue reading >>>

Marlborough Mass.-based Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. today launched its second annual national community service initiative Sunovion Hands On! which is mobilizing Sunovion employees across the United States to give back to their communities. Through this program which extends through November 15 Sunovion will help revitalize and repair community spaces support animal rescue initiatives and provide assistance for organizations supporting children families and veterans in need.As part of the initiative Sunovion employees based in Marlborough are contributing their time and efforts to benefit 14 Continue reading >>>

Follow Daily News Business Editor Bob Tremblay on Twitter @Bob Tremblay_MW. Citizens Bank pledges one million meals to 11 nonprofits Citizens Bank and the Citizens Bank Foundation this week announced they are working with 11 of their community partners to provide more than one million meals to people who are in need throughout Massachusetts this year. To observe Hunger Action Month, RBS Citizens Financial Group (RBSCFG) also announced its goal of providing 4.5 million meals to local food organizations across the bank’s footprint by year end. As part of Citizens Helping Continue reading >>>

Sunovion employees in Fort Lee, N.J. and field teams across the United States are also participating in the community service initiative by engaging in volunteer activities to serve the unique needs of their local communities.About Sunovion Hands On!Sunovion is committed to making positive contributions to communities across the country where the Company has an active presence. Through the Sunovion Hands On! community service initiative, employee volunteers are helping to give back to their local communities where they live and work. In its second year, nearly 80 percent of Sunovion’s Continue reading >>>

ServiceMaster by Gilmore's check presented to Heading Home, Inc. Boston, MA Heading Home, Inc., one of Greater Boston's largest agencies dedicated to helping the homeless, received over $5,000 in donations at ServiceMaster by Gilmore's company event. The all-day event took place aboard the Provincetown II on August 3. Steven Gilmore, president of ServiceMaster by Gilmore, awarded Heading Home a $5,000 check in addition to $463 from cash donations."Heading Home is incredibly grateful for ServiceMaster by Gilmore's exceptional support that will enable us to continue to invest in Continue reading >>>