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)