Research and 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 2022 – FSU 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 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

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

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

May 2022 – Dawn 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 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

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 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 

October 2020 – Pepper 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?