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Ravinder Nagpal, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, has been recognized as a visiting associate professor of the Yakult Probiotics Research Laboratory at the Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan.

Researchers with the Institute for Successful Longevity are part of a consortium that has been awarded a $14.7-million grant from the National Institute on Aging to work with emerging and existing technologies to promote the well-being, quality of life and independence of older adults and provide support for older adults with cognitive impairments.

Lynn Panton, Ph.D., Professor in the College of Health and Human Sciences and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, has been honored with the 2022 Service Award from the Southeast Regional Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Dr. Ravinder Nagpal, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, has been awarded an early-career investigator grant by the Infectious Diseases Society of America Foundation’s to explore a potential link between infectious diseases and the cause of Alzheimer’s disease.

Zhe He, Ph.D., a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity and Associate Professor in the School of Information, has been honored by the Association for Informati

Three Florida State University researchers have earned prestigious Fulbright Scholar Fellowships that will see them take their research abroad in the coming year, including Jasminka Ilich-Ernst, a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity.

Dawn Carr, Ph.D., a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, has won an international award for her work on social engagement and healthy functioning for adults in later life. 

Carr, Associate Professor in FSU’s Sociology Department and the director of the university’s Claude Pepper Institute, earned the 2022 Ewald W. Busse Research Award for excellence in the social/behavioral sciences.

Jing Wang, dean of the Florida State University College of Nursing and a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for Successful Longevity, has been named to the board of trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Wang is the first administrator from an institution within the State University System of Florida to serve on the board in at least 30 years.

Winners of the ISL Planning Grants for 2022, from left: Brad Schmidt, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Psychology, Geraldine Martorella, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the College of Nursing, and Zhe He, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Program Chair of MSIT in the School of Information.