by THOMAS BREEN
As a new lab and office tower continues to rise at 101 College St., Career High School senior Laila Mohammed has her sights set on growing science-career prospects of her own — thanks to a new $200,000 scholarship fund for public school students like her who live near the development and who pursue a higher-ed degree in bioscience or STEM.
Mohammed detailed those academic and professional hopes during a Tuesday afternoon press conference about the launch of the Together We Grow / 101 College Street Scholarship Fund.
More than two dozen city officials and local public-education leaders gathered in the library of Career High School at 140 Legion Ave. to celebrate the new fund, which will be seeded with $200,000 of the $500,000 that city government got Massachusetts-based developer Carter Winstanley to commit as part of a community benefits agreement related to the 101 College St. project nearby.
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