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           		|  Pianist Neal Larrabee, associate professor of music, performs during an inaugural concert on March 18 celebrating the new chamber stage at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts. | 
       		   
               	
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          	March 26 , 2007 ¦ Volume 25, No. 25 
 
               	
               	
Center to foster translation of medical research into practice 
The Patrick & Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research  Foundation has pledged $1.75 million to name and support The Ethel Donaghue  Center for Translating Research Into Practice and Policy (TRIPP) at the Health  Center. Read more...  
               
           	UConn Foundation takes steps to divest from Darfur  
The UConn  Foundation will formally request that its investment managers withdraw funds  invested in the Sudan, where hundreds of thousands have died as a 
result of a genocide campaign, and some 2.5 million have been displaced. Read more...  
               Scholars to discuss science, ethics, humanity   
An  all-day celebration of the humanities on March 30 will 
consider how breakthroughs in science and technology raise 
questions about what it means 
to be human. Read more...  
            
           	New database to help faculty share international expertise    
       	  Nearly three dozen faculty have already signed up for a new  international expertise database that will be used to match researchers with  grant opportunities and connect faculty and staff looking for advice from  others experienced with particular countries or 
universities. Read more...  
          	   
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