Research/Archives

June 2023 - The Claude Pepper Center and Pepper Institute on Aging & Public Policy hosted an event in observance of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day at the Broad Auditorium

November 2022FSU Researchers receive NIH grant to study effects of resiliency

August 2022 - New priorities are needed when we say ‘save’ Social Security by Pepper Emeritus Faculty David W. Rasmussen (Tallahassee Democrat)

July 2022Article published by Anne Barrett, Ph.D. is the first in the Annual Review of Sociology's nearly five decades to focus on age inequality

June 2022FSU Sociology Ph.D. students Tim Arthur and Trinity Lakin were selected as the new Pepper International/Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making (CAnD3) Fellows for the 2022-23 academic year

June 2022Miles Taylor, Ph.D. is Chair-Elect of the Section on Aging and Life Course of the ASA

June 2022Dawn Carr, Ph.D. wins mid-career award for work on aging and health

June 2022Patricia Homan, Ph.D. earns NIH Emerging Scientist Award

May 2022Dawn Carr, Ph.D. named Director of the Claude Pepper Center at FSU

May 2022 Pepper Associates use AI to prompt older adults’ participation in research

February 2022 - Anne Barrett, Ph.D. quoted in Yahoo! Life article on ageism

January 2022FSU Alum Brittany King, Ph.D.: Women More Likely Than Men to Have No Retirement Savings

October 2021 - Watch Now: Structures & Systems: Life Course Scaffolding of Late-Life Health, a talk by Dr. Jessica Kelley

October 2021 - Pepper Institute Director Miles Taylor & Pepper Associate Dawn Carr coauthored a paper on psychological resilience & COVID-19 among older adults

September 2021 - Pepper Associate Dawn Carr selected for research fellowship program

April 2021ISL Director and Pepper Associate Neil Charness named Distinguished Research Professor

February 2021 - Watch Now: The Pepper Institute's inaugural Dempsey Barron Endowed Lecture, "Implications of Weaker Ties in Late Life," a talk by Karen Fingerman

January 2021 - Pepper Associate Miles Taylor, Webinar - Policy Pub: "Bouncing Back: What the Science of Resilience Can Teach Us"

November 2020FSU Aging Studies Alum Jean Accius Named One of Next Avenue's 2020 Influencers on Aging 

October 2020Pepper Associate Miles Taylor Brings Aging Expertise to International Training Program

August 2020 - Study by Pepper Institute Director Anne Barrett and Colleagues: Calculated Ageism: Generational Sacrifice as a Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

August 2020 - Study by Pepper Associate Patricia Homan finds that COVID-19 is hitting older Black and Latinx persons hardest  

July 2020 - Grandparent-Adult Grandchild Relationships: Development of a Typology Using Latent Class Analysis

June 2020 - Pepper Associates Dawn Carr and Neil Charness Discuss New Tools to Overcome Senior Solitude 

April 2020 - Pepper Institute Director Anne Barrett and Pepper Associate Amy Burdette Win College Awards for Teaching and Research 

April 2020 - Pepper Associate Dawn Carr quoted in The New York Times (Pen Pal Programs Help Seniors) 

March 2020 - Pepper Associate Dawn Carr quoted in The Gainesville Sun (Seniors and COVID-19 Isolation) 

February 2020 - Pepper Associate Patricia Homan awarded a highly competitive pilot grant from NLCHDD 

October 2019 - FSU faculty members receive NIH grant to study long-term role of character traits in heart surgery patients  

September 2019 - Pepper Associate Miles Taylor takes part in large-scale study on marriage and aging 

July 2019 - Pepper Associate Dawn Carr quoted in Forbes article on delaying retirement 

May 2019 - Structural Sexism and Health in the United States: A New Perspective on Health Inequality and the Gender System

May 2019 - Dr. Amy Burdette named editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior 

May 2019 - Structural Sexism and Health in the United States: A New Perspective on Health Inequality and the Gender System 

March 2019 - Older Immigrants in U.S. More Satisfied Than Native Born 

January 2019 - Social Security Helped Slash Elderly Poverty to 9.2 Percent in the 20th Century – that Triumph is now in Jeopardy 

November 2018 - Age, Perceptions of Mattering, and Allostatic Load 

November 2018 - Home for the Holidays: New research on elder women and driving 

October 2018 - FSU researchers find low resilience puts men at risk for depression 

September 2018 - Pepper Institute Director Anne Barrett featured in the September/October edition of Tallahassee Magazine 

September 2018 - Pepper Associate Dawn Carr reveals some of the most important ways we can help caregivers continue to do the important work of caring for our nation’s elders

June 2018 - Neil Charness receives two honors for a career of work on longevity and technology for older adults  

June 2018 - International Association of Applied Psychology honors Amy Ai for contributions to health psychology

May 2018 - Pepper Associates receive Fulbright Awards 

April 2018 - Dr. Stephen M. Golant "Aging in the Right Place"  

March 2018 - Dr. Anne Barrett and Alexandra Raphael explore the correlation between housework and the sex lives of married individuals in midlife 

March 2018 - Policy Pub: The Long-Term Consequences of Economic Inequality 

February 2018 - Researchers Pursue Truth About Cats and Dogs...and Older Adults 

February 2018 - Pepper Institute and Claude Pepper Center Launch 'Aging Today' Radio Segment on 88.9, WFSU-FM 

December 2017 - Ageism in our Aging Society - Why Should We Care? 

November 2017 - Pepper Institute Director, Anne Barrett, featured in the December 2017/January 2018 issue of Tallahassee Woman Magazine

November 2017 - Policy Pub: Ageism in an Aging Society 

October 2017 - FSU honors Claude Pepper (40th Anniversary Celebration News Coverage) 

October 2017 - FSU Research Study featured on WTXL-TV: Evacuating older adults and their furry friends  

October 2017 - Pepper Institute celebrates 40th Anniversary with program honoring Claude Pepper's legacy 

September 2017 - Dawn Carr featured in the Tallahassee Democrat: "Does volunteering soften the blow of widowhood?" 

September 2017 - Anne Barrett presents research on older feminist activists in London at FSU Faculty Luncheon Series 

Fall 2017 - Pepper Institute featured in the Fall 2017 edition of Engage Magazine 

August 2017 - Jill Quadagno writes on the politics of health care reform in Newsweek 

June 2017 - Blog Post: Ageism in our Aging Society: Why Should We Care?