Jing Wang, Ph.D., dean of Florida State University’s College of Nursing and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, has been named a 2021 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholar by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
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Aaron Wilber talks on mouse models, Alzheimer’s disease, and brain function during sleep in the next ISL Brown Bag on October 25
You are invited to hear Aaron Wilber, Ph.D., speak on “Findings in mouse models suggest Alzheimer’s disease may change brain function during sleep leading to memory loss and impairments in navigating our surroundings.”
Neil Charness, Walter Boot to go to France for CREATE workshop on designing for older adults
Neil Charness, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Successful Longevity, and Walter Boot, Ph.D., a Faculty Affiliate of the institute, will be in Bordeaux, France, in late September to meet with other researchers in a workshop on their CREATE project, which focuses on designing technology for older adults.
Watch ISL Brown Bag speaker Damaris Aschwander's talk on 'Who We Are Shapes How We Cognitively Age?'
Damaris Aschwanden, Ph.D., gave a fascinating talk on “Who We Are Shapes How We Cognitively Age? Personality & Cognitive Health in Late Life” in the first presentation in the ISL Brown Bag Series for Fall 2021.
Robert Hickner, Michael Ormsbee and team win NIH grant to explore resistance training and type 2 diabetes
Professors Michael Ormsbee, left, and Robert Hickner have received a National Institutes of Health grant to examine how resistance training could potentially help prevent type 2 diabetes.
By Kathleen Haughney, University Communications
Research center led by ISL Faculty Affiliate Eren Ozguven part of FSU's new Big Bets initiative
A research center led by Eren Erman Ozguven, Associate Professor in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, is among three institutes featured in a new Florida State University initiative designed to amplify centers and institutes that are doing high-profile, public-impact research and connect them with donors interested in pursuing big questions.
Brad Schmidt, Distinguished Research Professor, joins the Institute for Successful Longevity
Dr. Norman B. (Brad) Schmidt, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Psychology, has joined the Institute for Successful Longevity as a Faculty Affiliate.
ISL Faculty Affiliate Angelina Sutin quoted in Time article on how older adults can maintain their cognitive abilities
Professor Angelina Sutin of FSU’s College of Medicine is quoted in a Time article on steps older adults can take to maintain their cognitive abilities. Sutin, a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, tells Time of the dangers of social isolation and how hearing loss, common among older adults, can magnify the problem.
Eren Erman Ozguven, ISL Faculty Affiliate and director of the RIDER Center, quoted in the Palm Beach Post
Eren Erman Ozguven, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, is quoted by the Palm Beach Post in an article looking at whether new residents of Florida understand what they need to do to prepare for hurricane season:
