On a recent afternoon at Northeastern University’s Innovation Campus in Burlington, 33 people gathered with their friends and families to celebrate their graduation from a training program aimed at fast-tracking their way into the life sciences industry.
The eight-week program in biomanufacturing and life sciences, called Pathmaker, granted the students what’s known as a “microcredential” — a type of certification that conveys that the holder learned very specific skills that have been tested and verified by an outside evaluator.