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The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UMass Boston, begun as Life Enrichment Through Studies, celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2024. One in a series of stories about the history of the UMass Boston Gerontology Institute and its centers and programs as we… Continue Reading →
Meet the five gerontology doctoral candidates who successfully defended their dissertations in the spring of 2024 and were hooded as new PhDs at ceremonies on campus May 22, 2024. Elizabeth Gallagher Hometown: Fitchburg, Massachusetts Dissertation: “Challenging Aspects of Caregiving: The… Continue Reading →
The Department of Gerontology at UMass Boston presents five annual awards to deserving graduate students. Four of the awards include a $200 prize to be used for the students’ professional development. Winners of the Capstone Project Award are honored with… Continue Reading →
Older adults who smoke heavily have a hard time kicking the habit, even when they receive the most promising cessation treatment. “These are people who started smoking when they were very young, before we knew of all the dangers,” says… Continue Reading →
The way she sees it, Kunyu Zhang has climbed a few mountains in her career. Not literal ascents, but long journeys just the same. After earning degrees in physics and applied physics in her native Beijing, she came to the… Continue Reading →
As the Gerontology Institute’s Pension Action Center (PAC) celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2024, the center counts more than $70 million in retirement benefits recovered for more than 11,000 clients across its service area of New England and Illinois. One… Continue Reading →
More than 250 guests attended a “Summit to Fight Fraud” organized by the Gerontology Institute’s Pension Action Center at UMass Boston on March 19, 2024. The event, sponsored by Investor Protection Trust and co-presented by the Massachusetts Securities Division, featured… Continue Reading →
Justice in Aging, a national legal advocacy nonprofit that fights senior poverty through law, has formed an innovative partnership with the Gerontology Institute’s LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston to support research while enhancing the nonprofit’s capacity to interpret data. The… Continue Reading →
The UMass Boston Department of Gerontology has named Jeffrey Stokes, PhD, assistant professor of gerontology and current director of the undergraduate aging studies program, as the graduate program director, overseeing the gerontology doctoral program. A quantitative sociologist, Stokes joined the… Continue Reading →
Like many who enter the gerontology field, Brittany McFeeley was drawn to studying aging because of a personal experience: As a child, she watched her grandmother suffer with Alzheimer’s disease. She is passionate about research, specifically any studies that build… Continue Reading →
