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Members of UConn’s a cappella group A Completely Different Note perform during ‘Jingle Jam’ in the Student Union Theatre on December 3.
Members of UConn’s a cappella group A Completely Different Note perform during ‘Jingle Jam’ in the Student Union Theatre on December 3. Photo by Frank Dahlmeyer

 

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A Victorian-style gingerbread house, created by staff of Dining Services, on display in South Dining Hall.
A Victorian-style gingerbread house, created by staff of Dining Services, on display in South Dining Hall. Photo by Gail Merrill
December 8, 2008 ¦  Volume 27, No. 15
Publication Notice: This is the last issue of the Advance for the fall semester, 2008. We will resume publishing on Tuesday, Jan. 20.
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Community offers cost-saving suggestions
Recycling wood chips as mulch, implementing a standard temperature in offices and classrooms, and levying a budget crisis surcharge were among the suggestions offered during a town meeting on potential cost savings, efficiencies, and revenue enhancements. Read more...

Winter graduation ceremony set for December 14 at Gampel
Denis M. McCarthy, retired chairman, CEO, and president of Fidelity Management Trust Co., a subsidiary of Fidelity Investments, will deliver the keynote address during Commencement on December 14. Read more...

Economics major awarded prestigious Marshall Scholarship
A senior economics major in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is one of 40 new Marshall Scholars named on Dec. 1 by the British government. Read more...

Ancient grave unearthed in Israel
A 12,000 year-old grave unearthed in the Middle East contains the remains of a woman who provides some of the world’s earliest evidence of a religious practitioner, according to a recently published study by researchers from Israel and the University of Connecticut. Read more...

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