As recipients of the 2024 Hanson-Thorell Family Research Awards, Assistant Professor Michelle Keller and Research Assistant Professor Hiroshi Kumagai each received $25,000 for one-year pilot projects aiming to improve how Alzheimer's and sarcopenia might be treated and potentially lower the costs for doing so.
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The USC Leonard Davis School hosted a kimono fashion show from the Yamano Beauty College in Japan that celebrated the over-decade-long partnership between the two schools and the symbolism that the Japanese kimono represents across the lifespan.
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Students traveled to Nicoya, Costa Rica to understand why Costa Rica has one of the longest-lived populations in the world.
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Terrie Moffitt of Duke University delivers the 2021 Esther and Isadore Kesten Memorial Lecture.
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Research Assistant Professors T. Em Arpawong and Sebastian Brandhorst will each receive $25,000 in funding for one-year pilot projects.
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Donations provide scholarship support for students pursuing the first-of-its-kind Master of Arts in Senior Living Hospitality, which is designed to prepare senior living professionals to address a growing population and changing consumer demands.
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The study finds that immigrants are responsible for approximately half of recent U.S. life expectancy gains.
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A video series produced by the Enguídanos Lab offers structured accounts of how a range of individuals have benefited from palliative care.
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Beginning in the fall of 2021, these innovative programs, offered both online and on campus, will provide students with a flexible approach to gaining expertise for in-demand careers in areas of food service management, dietetics, and nutrition across the lifespan.
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Discovery of unique virus traits offer possible explanations as to why older adults and people with diabetes or heart disease can have more severe responses to COVID-19 than others, say USC researchers.
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