Research and Archives

July 2025 – FSU study highlights importance of psychological resilience in aging and widowhood

March 2025 – Research Study Highlights Occupational Impact on Cognitive Health in Older Adults

June 2024 – Anne Barrett, Ph.D. and COSSPP Graduate Students Awarded Borchard Foundation Grant

June 2024 – AARP Florida Recognizes Dr. Rima Nathan, Director of Claude Pepper Elder Law Clinic, as a Community Fraud Fighter

June 2024 – Anne Barrett, Ph.D., received the 2024 Richard Kalish Innovative Publication Award from the Gerontological Society of America (GSA)

May 2024 – The American Sociological Association Section on Aging and the Life Course awarded the Outstanding Publication Award to Anne Barrett, Ph.D., for her research “Centering Age Inequality: Developing a Sociology-of-Age Framework.”

November 2023 – Dawn C. Carr, Ph.D quoted in CNN article, “After a lifetime together, surviving spouses can be vulnerable in grief”

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

August 2022 – Pepper Institute featured in Tallahassee Magazine

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

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

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

January 2022 – FSU 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

April 2021 – ISL 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 2020 – FSU Aging Studies Alum Jean Accius Named One of Next Avenue’s 2020 Influencers on Aging 

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

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 

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

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

April 2018 – Dr. Stephen M. Golant “Aging in the Right Place”  

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

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  

September 2017 – Dawn Carr featured in the Tallahassee Democrat: “Does volunteering soften the blow of widowhood?” 

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