Realtor Barnacle named to national committee
Ian Barnacle, a broker at Residential Properties Ltd., has been named to the National Association of Realtors Business Issues Committee. Barnacle will take his...
Brown launches section on iTunes U
PROVIDENCE – After a five-month beta phase, Brown University this month officially launched its own page on iTunes U, a section of Apple Inc.’s...
Cost of college up 4% to $26,273 this year
NEW YORK – Like death and taxes, the annual hike in the cost of college appears to an unchanging fact of life.
Tuition and fees...
Bryant students’ business plan honored
SMITHFIELD – A team of Bryant University sophomores recently took first place in a business plan contest at Babson College, earning $27,500 to develop...
Brown OKs new $45M medical school HQ
(Corrected, Oct. 21)
PROVIDENCE – Brown University’s leaders on Saturday signed off on detailed plans for the new Warren Alpert Medical School building the school...
URI tops $100 million 15 months early
KINGSTON – The University of Rhode Island has reached the $100 million goal for its Making a Difference capital campaign 15 months ahead of...
URI’s leader gives encouraging signs
David M. Dooley, the new president of the University of Rhode Island, is focusing on collaboration and cross-pollination in a big way, which should...
Responding to business adversity
When Jack Welch was chairman of General Electric, he would regularly ask the top managers in the company’s 14 major businesses a series of...
Harvard, China libraries to digitize ancient books
Harvard University and the National Library of China will digitize a collection of 50,000 books, some more than 1,000 years old, to make them...
Summers: Spend on education
White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers made a case for bolstering government spending on infrastructure and on education to create jobs and strengthen the...
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