Gerontology Program
Announcements and Events

Spring 2008:

 

Dr. Craig Gundersen (HDFS) will appear before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging on March 5 at 10:30 a.m.  He will testify about “The Causes, Consequences, and Future of Senior Hunger in America.”

 

List of past events


Research Projects (2007 - 2008):

The Gerontology Program supports the following research projects during the current academic year:

  • "Endocrine Control of Rate-of-Aging" (Anne Bronikowski, Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology and Amanda Sparkman, research assistant)

  • "Iowa Family Survey 2005: Housing, Health, and Community" (Christine C. Cook and Mary Yearns, Human Development and Family Studies and Jinmyoung Cho, research assistant)

  • "Effects of Age and Exercise Training on Responses to an Acute Orthostatic Stress" (Warren D. Franke, Health and Human Performance and Kristen Maughan, research assistant)

  • “Stability of Gait in Across the Lifespan" “Parkinson’s disease and Gait Stability (Ann Smiley-Oyen, Health and Human Performance and Kristin Lowry, research assistant)

Awards and Recognition

 

 

Conferences

 

Questions or comments?
Contact us at (515) 294-5186
or pxmartin@iastate.edu