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.
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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:
Older adults need training, support and technology designed to meet their needs, says ISL speaker Bo Xie
Conventional wisdom has it that older adults can’t figure out digital technology. Bo Xie, an expert on technology and older adults at the University of Texas at Austin, is having none of that.
How old, and how smart, is your smartphone? ISL post-doc Nicholas Gray wants to know
Smartphones and other digital technology hold lots of promise for researchers pursuing ways to assist older adults. But are older Americans using the latest versions or are they keeping their phones well past their expiration dates? There is no reliable information to guide researchers. Nicholas Gray, the Institute for Successful Longevity’s post-doc researcher, hopes to fill this data gap with his study, now underway.
ISL Director Neil Charness quoted by MarketWatch on debunking products with 'longevity' hype
Neil Charness, Director of the Institute for Successful Longevity, is quoted in an article in MarketWatch about the need to be skeptical of many “longevity” products and how to separate valid data from outlandish claims.
Charness advised MarketWatch readers to look for well-designed studies that include participants randomly assigned to both the experiment group and a control group.