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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted on iTunesU.

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• U.Va. Study Finds Secondary Teacher Coaching Program Improves Student Test Scores (Joseph Allen and Robert Pianta)
• U.Va.’s OLLI Offers Dozens of ‘Just for Fun’ Courses (Elliot Mininberg)
• Study Suggests Learning Rhythm May Be Like Learning a Language (Laura Getz and Scott Barton)

•Air Date: 9/7/2011

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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted on iTunesU.

Read more about the stories featured in this week’s program:

• Income Inequality Increases Unhappiness, Study Shows (Shigehiro Oishi)
• Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Program Awarded Grant for Digital LBJ Volume (Guian McKee)
• Summer Reading, Part II: Mystery, Murder and Mayhem (Christopher Tilghman)

•Air Date: 7/13/2011

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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted on iTunesU.

Read more about the stories featured in this week’s program:

• U.Va. Scientist Wins National Stand Up to Cancer Grant to Unlock Cancer’s Genetic Secrets (Hui Li)
• U.Va.’s Gary Gallagher Examines Motivations Behind One Side in Civil War (Gary Gallagher)
• Summer Reading: Books That Transport Through Time and Place (Allen Groves)

•Air Date: 7/6/2011

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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show on Wednesdays at 11:55 a.m. and Fridays at 3:55 p.m. and are archived on the UVA Today website. All of the segments are posted on iTunesU.

Read more about the stories featured in this week’s program:

• U.Va. Demographers Find Many Va. Households Rely on Expensive Short-Term Loans (Rebecca Tippett)
• Supernova Remnant Lights Up (Roger Chevalier)
• Semester at Sea’s New Short-Term Voyage to Address Global Challenges (Emma Mitchell)

•Air Date: 6/15/2011

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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show on Wednesdays at 11:55 a.m. and Fridays at 3:55 p.m. and are archived on the UVA Today website. All of the segments are posted on iTunesU.

Read more about the stories featured in this week’s program:

• U.Va. Study Questions Health Benefits of Commonly Prescribed Cholesterol-Lowering Medication (Dr. Christopher Kramer)
• Darden’s Tayloe Murphy Center Opens Nominations for 2011 Resilience Awards (Greg Fairchild)
• Semester at Sea Voyage Visits Panama Canal (Ed Berger)

•Air Date: 6/8/2011

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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show on Wednesdays at 11:55 a.m. and Fridays at 3:55 p.m. and are archived on the UVA Today website. All of the segments are posted on iTunesU.

Read more about the stories featured in this week’s program:

• University of Virginia Enters Dining Hall Into EPA Energy Contest (Nina Morris)
• Road Trip Preparedness (Marge Sidebottom)
• New Course Uses HBO’s ‘The Wire’ To Examine Urban America (Bruce Williams and Kamille Seward)

•Air Date: 5/25/2011

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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted on iTunesU.

Read more about the stories featured in this week’s program:

• UVa Professor and Poet Rita Dove Takes the Stage at the White House (Rita Dove)
• New Study Shows Scientists Can Detect Impending Ecosystem Collapse (Michael Pace)
• U.Va. Researchers Helping to Chart Biomedicine’s Next Frontier: The Human Neurome (Scott Acton and Barry Condron)

•Air Date: 5/18/2011

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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted on iTunesU.

Read more about the stories featured in this week’s program:

• U.Va. Receives $14.7 Million Grant to Improve Vaccine Results in Poor Countries (William Petri Jr.)
• Study: Female, Male Youth Report Different Concussion Symptoms (Sue Saliba)
• April is Poetry Month (Rita Dove)

•Air Date: 4/20/2011

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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted on iTunesU.

Read more about the stories featured in this week’s program:

• U.Va. Demographers Find Many Virginia Households Not Economically Secure (Rebecca Tippett)
• U.Va. Duo Receives Davis Projects for Peace Grant (Robin Kendall and Sarah Munford)
• U.Va. Volunteers to Mark Inauguration with Day of Service (Kelsey Host)

•Air Date: 4/13/2011

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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted on iTunesU.

Read more about the stories featured in this week’s program:

• U.Va. Student Provides Help and Hope for Romanian Children (Clare Vierbuchen)
• U.Va. Professor’s ‘Googlization of Everything’ Urges Reflection on Google’s Huge Influence (Siva Vaidhyanathan)
• U.Va. Aerospace Engineers to Unveil Hypersonic Jet Engine Prototype (Chris Goyne and Ray Lee)

• Air Date: 3/23/2011

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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio . Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted on iTunesU .

Read more about the stories featured in this week’s program:

• U.Va. Global Health Researchers Discover Hormone That Prevents Obesity Also Protects Against a Potentially Fatal Infection (Dr. Bill Petri and Hans Verkerke)
• New Free, Hands-On Tool Supports Sustainable Living Choices (James Galloway)
• U.Va. Law Professors Revive Public Speaking in New Book, ‘Tongue-Tied America’ (Robert Sayler and Molly Bishop Shadel)

• Air Date: 3/9/2011

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Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show , a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio . Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments will be posted on iTunesU .

Read more about the stories featured in this week’s program:

• U.Va. Professor Tackles Racial Issues in New Edition of ‘Huck Finn’ (Stephen Railton)
• A Titan Gift: State-of-the-Art Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (James Howe)
• New Book Chronicles More Than a Century of Cancer Care at U.Va. (Joan Echtenkamp Klein)

• Air Date: 2/23/2011

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