AWARDS & TRANSITIONS cont ’ d.
Course Number & Title Change
Jill Suitor (Faculty Associate) was invited to present in the Westwood Lecture Series on “ Maybe Mom Did Always Love You Best, But Does it Really Matter? Mothers ’ Favoritism and Disfavoritism in Later - Life Families. ” Elizabeth Strickland (Faculty Associate) was named the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award from Purdue College of Health and Human Sciences and the Provost. protect your voice? Physiological investigations from rats to humans. ” She was also selected to join Provost Wolfe as a member of the Provost Advisory Committee. Catherine Stepniak (Dual - title PhD Student) was awarded as an Outstanding Graduate Instructor by the Purdue Department of Sociology. Nick Turiano (Dual - title PhD, 2012) was awarded a National Institute on Aging R03 grant as PI entitled “ Personality and Mortality Risk in Adulthood: Behavioral and Physiological Mechanisms. ” Sydney Trask (Faculty Associate) was awarded a grant from the National Institute on Aging for $429,409 to study “ Alleviating age - related memory impairment through proteasome stimulation. ”
Attention CALC grad students: HDFS 685, formerly Introduction to Human Development, is now HDFS 606, Advanced Human Development. The course is still taught by Dr. Elliot Friedman, and is part of the approved gerontology curriculum.
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Amanda Veile (Faculty Associate) was promoted to Associate Professor of Anthropology.
Robbee Wedow (Faculty Associate) was the PI of a team that was awarded $500,000 in seed funding from the university following the Purdue Life and Health Sciences Summit. Dr. Wedow ’ s project will explore how genetics and the environment contribute to behaviors across species and phyla.
AGING EXCHANGE CONTRIBUTORS
CO - EDITORS
Paige Ebner, Asst. Director; Cathy Liu, Director
Wei - Lin Xue (Dual - title PhD Student) presented a poster at the Midwest Nursing Research Society Competition and won the first place PhD student poster award.
CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR
Laurel Williams
WEB SUPPORT
Bhavesh Pareek
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