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The University of Connecticut has announced the hiring of Richard D. Gray, executive director of the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority, as the university's new chief financial officer.

Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library , Vol. 13 , pp. 1568-1577. inesdesantiago review Abstract Embryonic stem cells proliferate indefinitely while maintaining pluripotency.

The University of Connecticut has announced the hiring of Richard D. Gray, executive director of the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority, as the university's new chief financial officer.

T homas Bruhn has been named interim director of the William Benton Museum of Art , the state's art museum on the University of Connecticut campus at Storrs .

We are now into summer and you are concerned that something does not seem right with your plants.

Parks & Recreation Director C. Roger Moss, at right, and Tracey Ferrero, and her daughters Erin, 8 and Kelly 10 release Galerucella beetles along the Hockanum River.

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Laureen C. Colis , Paromita Raychaudhury , and Ashis K. Basu * Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269 Received March 27, 2008 Abstract: Comparative mutagenesis of γ- ...

The Long Island woman who urged her then-boyfriend to flee after he struck and fatally injured a University of Connecticut freshman 18 months ago was sentenced this morning to six months in jail, the maximum permitted under a plea agreement.

Michele Ann Hall, 19, of Wantagh, N.Y. was found guilty April 18 of third-degree hindering prosecution.

Judge Carl J. Schuman reached his decision after an emotional hearing of more than two hours in a crowded courtroom during which Carlee Wines' parents demanded justice for their daughter, a vivacious 19-year-old from Manalapan, N.J., who was struck by a Nissan Armada SUV driven by Hall's former boyfriend, Anthony P. Alvino, 19, of Lindenhurst, N.Y. He is now serving a 37-month prison sentence for his role in Wines' death.

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Foster child gets permanent home _ A Meriden couple opened up their home and their hearts to a foster child, but once they connected, they couldn't let her go.

If you want to improve your skills at identifying trees, you might want to take advantage of a free, one-day tree ID class that will be offered by the state Department of Environmental Protection.

Noticed a vine with glossy, green leaves winding its way around a tree, climbing up a wall or creating a border along the edge of your lot? Are there clusters of itchy blisters on your arms or legs?

Chances are good you've got toxicodendron radicans - more commonly known as poison ivy - growing in the yard.

Chances are even better that it's going to be a challenge to get rid of it.

'Connecticut is a perfect environment for poison ivy,' says Robert Durgy, horticultural diagnostician at the University of Connecticut's Home & Garden Education Center in Storrs.

Michelle Powell is anxiously watching as gas prices climb at the station near her New Britain Avenue apartment in Hartford.

The spike in fuel costs has, for many, become the difference between a road trip and a weekend at home. For Powell, who cleans hotel rooms in Windsor Locks to support a husband and daughter, it is the difference between driving to work and taking an hourlong bus ride to save money for food.

She is the face of an inner-city workforce struggling to live in the affordable pockets of Hartford and other cities and traveling 40 miles or farther for jobs barely more than minimum wage. If the middle class is feeling the squeeze of gas prices, this group is in a chokehold.

High school junior Sabrina Camboulives wasn't happy with her SAT scores, so her guidance counselor at Bacon Academy in Colchester suggested she try the ACT test to see if she could do better. Camboulives, who admits she gets great grades but doesn't do well on standardized tests, took the test earlier this month and found it easier and less stressful than the SAT. The ACT, she explained, essentially tests what students have learned in high school classes, as opposed to the SAT, which measures students' aptitude for learning. 'It's testing what I know, not what I have the ability to grasp. The SAT almost feels like an IQ test, whereas with the ACT, either you know it or you don't,' said Camboulives, who hopes her ACT scores will be high enough to get her into Vassar College. While the SAT dominates Connecticut's education landscape, the ACT is beginning to gain some ground as word spreads about it and students realize they can hedge their bets by taking both and seeing which one gives them a more competitive edge. Historically, the ACT has been more popular in the Midwest while the SAT has dominated the coasts. But the ACT is becoming better known on both coasts thanks to the ACT's marketing campaign and colleges' increasing acceptance of the test and their desire to recruit top students from outside their traditional base. In Connecticut, the curriculum-based ACT test has taken off in the last three years, though numbers are still relatively small compared to the SAT. In 2002, 5 percent of Connecticut high school graduates took the ACT. But by 2007, the number more than tripled, to 16 percent. At the University of Connecticut, which accepts both tests, 22 percent of applicants for the incoming freshman class took the ACT, up from only 3 percent 10 years ago.

Nearly a fourth of registered voters turned out to narrowly pass a $43.7 million town, schools and Region 19 budget in its first referendum in history.

The vote Tuesday was 1169 to 1094.

In a May 13 town meeting, voters passed the budget in a voice vote. But before doing so, they debated the schools spending, particularly an 8.7 percent increase in the Region 19/E.O. Smith High School budget due to an increased share of enrollment in Mansfield, and money slated to continue the Storrs Center project in an economic down cycle.

A long line of speakers brought prepared questions and comments to a public meeting Monday night on the financial and environmental viability of the $220 million Storrs Center project. Residents asked about town spending on the retail and residential development, business relocation costs, water availability, guarantees from the developer, the definition of local business and what would be built first.

Representatives of the Mansfield Downtown Partnership, LeylandAlliance, the town council and a University of Connecticut official provided the answers before an overflow crowd of more than 100 at the town office building.

- How many arts professionals does it take to change the culture in America?

About 4,000.

For starters.

That's how many participated in the National Performing Arts Convention recently, the first joint summit of its size in America bringing together leaders in theater, music, dance and opera.

Participants, including representatives from Connecticut arts organizations large (the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts) and small (HartBeat Ensemble), could choose from panels ranging from 'The Future of Private Giving to the Arts' to 'It's Great To Be Green.'

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A judge has postponed sentencing for a Long Island woman her role in a hit-and-run accident that killed a University of Connecticut freshman last year.