Center on Population Health and Aging
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Life Course, Health and Aging
Overview
The Center on Population Health and Aging announces the continuation of its biweekly (non-credit) interdisciplinary seminar on the general topic of Life Course, Health and Aging. Meetings will be held in 302 Pond Lab every other Thursday from 3:30 to 5:00.
The LCHA seminar series, which is open to all interested faculty, post-docs, and students, will focus this year on the comprehensive conceptualization (and measurement) of health and disability, as well as their antecedents and consequences. Seminar presentations will concentrate particularly on the variety of perspectives on health and disability (defined broadly) and their connection to the life course and aging. The content of presentations and discussions will seek to integrate life course theory and research with other disciplinary perspectives and subject areas relevant to the understanding of population health and disability (anthropology, biology, economics, genetics, gerontology, human development, nutrition, nursing, psychology, and sociology). The seminar will view "aging" broadly, focusing on health, disability and aging across the entire life span (from birth to death).
A wide range of seminar presentations is planned over the course of the academic year. Presentations will be made by invited guests, as well as by members of the Penn State faculty. The main purpose of the seminar is to give researchers from disparate disciplines an opportunity to learn from each other. The format of the seminar consists of a presentation of approximately 45 minutes by that day's speaker, and an open Q&A discussion of the ideas presented in the remaining time.
Current Semester Schedule
To Be Announced
Past Seminars - Spring 2007
February 1 - Molly Martin, The Pennsylvania State University
"The Intergenerational Correlation in Weight: An Interplay of Social and Genetic Influences"
February 22 - Duane Alwin, The Pennsylvania State University
"Cohort Aging, Mortality Selection and Health: Issues and Applications"
March 22 - Emily Agree, Johns Hopkins University
"Benefits of Assistive Technology for Disability"
April 5 - Grant Miller, Stanford University
"Women's Preferences and Child Survival in American History"
April 19 - Keith Whitfield, Duke University
"Decomposing Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Hypertension"
Past Seminars - Fall 2006
October 12 - Gwenith Fisher, University of Michigan, Survey Research Center
"The Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS) - Assessing the Relationship of Cognitive Aging and Processes of Dementia"
October 26 - David Weir, University of Michigan, Research Professor, Survey Research Center and Associate Director, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
"Putting More Health in the Health and Retirement Study"
November 30 - Duane Alwin, McCourtney Professor of Sociology, Demography and Human Development, Penn State University
"The Measurement of Health in Survey Interviews"
December 7 - Scott Hofer, Oregon State University
"Integrative Analysis of Longitudinal Studies on Aging (IALSA): A Coordinated Research Protocol for Data Harmonization and Analysis"
December 14 - Douglas Granger, Biobehavioral Health and Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State University
"An Introduction to Salivary Biomarkers for Social Scientists: Practical Aspects of Study Design, Sample Collection, and Assay"
Past Seminars - Spring 2006
February 2 - Deborah Carr, Associate Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
"Death and Dying in the 21st Century: Implications for Older Adults and their Families"
February 15 - Linda Wray, Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Penn State University
"COUPLED: Changing Our Understanding of People Living Everyday with Diabetes"
March 2 - Ross Macmillan, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota
"Social Differentiation in the Structure of the Life Course: Latent Pathways in the Transition to Adulthood in the United States"
March 14 - Ellen Idler, Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
"Religion in Aging Societies: Reaping What is Sown"
April 13 - Angela O'Rand, Professor of Sociology, Duke University
"Life Course Capital, Life Course Risks and Social Inequality: Gendered Pathways"
Past Seminars - Fall 2005
September 22 - Duane Alwin, McCourtney Professor of Sociology, Demography, Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State University
"Varieties of the Life Course - Theory, Concepts and Human Lives"
October 6 - Richard Settersten, Professor of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University
"Friends or Foes? The (Un)Easy Relationship between Gerontology and the Life Course"
October 20 - Kristen Schultz Lee, National Institute on Aging Post-doctoral Fellow, Population Research Institute, Penn State University
"Gendered Investments: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Parental Educational Investments in Japanese Families."
November 3 - Cheryl Elman, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Akron
"Marital Fluidity and Coresidential Kin Resiliency in Sociohistorical Perspective: A Study of Race/Ethnic Differences in Multigenerational Living Arrangements in 1910"
December 1 - Kenneth Ferraro, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Aging and the Life Course, Purdue University
"The Color of Hospitalization over the Adult Life Course"
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