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For tobacco farmers in rural Windsor and insurance executives in the city itself, Hartford’s radio stations were a lifeline to the world in the early days of broadcasting. It's easy to forget how critical this connection was in the days before TV or the internet. This session transports us back to that era, presenting a slice of area broadcast history. We’ll begin with the very first whispered signals and head through the medium's heyday, including the disc-jockeys that gave many of us in the Connecticut audience our first, thrilling taste of rock and roll.

Instructor: PAOLA SACCHETTI, born in Italy, earned a bachelor's degree in Biology from Wayne State University in Detroit. She then earned a PhD in Cellular and Clinical Neurobiology at Wayne State’s School of Medicine, studying the regulation of neuron-specific genes. She continued her research as Postdoctoral Fellow at INSERM U459 in Lille, France; the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm; and on the faculty at UConn and Mount Holyoke College. She is currently associate professor and co-chair of the Biology Department at the University of Hartford. She continues her research on the effects of dietary regimens on brain metabolism and cognitive functions in Alzheimer’s Disease animal models.