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SOUTH DARTMOUTH - Commuting is out of the question. Work is several thousand miles away. So Roger Mandle comes home just a few times a year. And this is one of those times.

“I like to think that I have two homes,” says Roger Mandle. “One is here and one is in Doha.”

Digital guru shakes up campus

This is how John Maeda, six months into his job as president of the venerable Rhode Island School of Design, describes his daily duties. But instead of dust, he collects information. The collecting began the week he arrived, when he asked 600 high school students attending a summer art program to applaud for the vision of the university that resonated most with them.

SMITHFIELD, R.I. (Dec. 30, 2008) – Bryant University’s undergraduate and graduate business programs remain among the world’s best, according to AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, which reaffirmed Bryant’s AACSB accreditation earlier this month.

SMITHFIELD, R.I. — Bryant University’s Confucius Institute is offering to the public two courses in Chinese language - one for youngsters in grades K-12, the other for adults.

BRISTOL, R.I., Dec. 9, 2008 - From sky-high bar pass rates, to national recognition of its public interest programs, to ranking among the best schools in the quality of its faculty publications, all topped off by multiple interactions by its students with justices of the United States Supreme Court, 2008 has been a stellar year for Roger Williams University School of Law.

SMITHFIELD, R.I. (Dec. 4, 2008) – Bryant University faculty and the University’s growing number of science majors got an early gift from Santa – nearly 10,000 square feet of new laboratories stocked with more than half a million dollars worth of analytical equipment.

SMITHFIELD, R.I. (Dec. 5, 2008) – Bryant University President Ronald K. Machtley will be the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony of the third annual international conference of Confucius Institutes in Beijing Tuesday, Dec. 9. More than 2,000 international delegates are gathering for the three-day conference, which will examine global education and building relationships with China.

BRISTOL, R.I., Dec. 2, 2008 - On Saturday, Dec. 6, volunteers will transfer nearly 750,000 adolescent oysters to restoration sites in Bristol Harbor and neighboring areas, culminating the third annual cycle of a joint effort between local community members and marine science researchers at Roger Williams University to bolster Rhode Island’s diminished oyster population.