The prestigious honorary society recognizes exceptional individuals from academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research and engages them in addressing significant global and national challenges.
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Professor Valter Longo leads review of research in animals and humans to identify how nutrition affects aging and healthy lifespan.
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The annual award honors a faculty member who provides exemplary guidance and support for other USC faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students.
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This Earth Day, USC Leonard Davis experts share why caring for the environment can help people have healthier lifespans.
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Ammar Dharani researches the structural and connectivity changes following traumatic brain injury.
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Rethinking65 quoted Paul Irving on the benefits of intergenerational living versus homogenous, age-restricted retirement communities. “What kind of society are we building — a society that encourages understanding and collaboration and appreciation of others, or a society that reinforces the divides that already challenge America? … I would make the case that bringing older and younger Americans together enhances the lives of both age groups, and in the mix, increases the likelihood of collaboration, mutual understanding and appreciation,” Irving said.
Daily Trojan interviewed Jon Pynoos and Leon Watts regarding the USC Leonard Davis School’s partnership with the Rebuilding Together organization to make homes safer for older adults. Pynoos said the partnership is “complex, growing, rich. … We can take what we have learned in research and put it into practice and involve students in something very real, that improves, directly, the lives of older persons and persons with disabilities.”
Cohen, dean of the USC Leonard Davis School since 2012, was credited for his focus on diversity and inclusion and efforts to grow the student body, said USC Provost Charles F. Zukoski.
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U.S. News & World Report featured a study by Margaret Gatz, Andrei Irimia and colleagues that found very low rates of dementia in two Amazonian indigenous groups. “Something about the pre-industrial subsistence lifestyle appears to protect older Tsimane and Moseten from dementia,” said Gatz, the lead study author. The study was also featured in Daily Mail, Science Alert, Free Malaysia Today, IFLScience, and New Atlas.
Times Now (India) mentioned Valter Longo’s research in an article on how exercise improves lifespan.
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