Professor Katy Abbott, Ph.D., MGS, was recently awarded a grant from the NIA IMPACT Collaboratory as a 2022 Health Care Systems Scholars. This program offers investigators an opportunity to work directly with health care systems interested in improving the care provided to people living with dementia and their care partners.
Executive Director of Scripps Gerontology Center Dr. Suzanne Kunkels 3rd published book Aging, Society, and the Life Course hit bookshelves nationwide in 2021.
After serving Miami University and the Scripps Gerontology Center for 20 years, Coordinator of Academic Programming Pamela Mayberry retired in the summer of 2021.
Executive Director Suzanne Kunkel, Ph.D. and O'Toole Family Professor and Scripps Research Fellow Kate de Medeiros, Ph.D. awarded first place in the American Journal of Nursing 2020 Book of the Year Award.
Their book titled Global Aging: Comparative Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course, 2nd Edition won first place in the Gerontologic Nursing category.
Professor of Economics and Scripps Research Fellow, Dr. John Bowblis wasted no time in 2020. In addition to 16 peer-reviewed papers accepted for publication and one research brief, Bowblis has an active role in five newly-funded grants.
Early this summer, after the COVID-19 pandemic had already swept across the country and shut down college campuses and businesses around the world, Miami's public health program began to put together a plan to help track the virus's rampant spread throughout the local community.