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Dr. Rachel Wu (PI) and Dr. Strickland-Hughes (Co-PI) Awarded NSF RAPID Grant to Study Impact of Social Distancing Across Adulthood

6/1/2020

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The Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) division of the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a RAPID grant for COVID-19 related research to Dr. Rachel Wu (PI) and Dr. Carla M. Strickland-Hughes (Co-PI) for the amount of $132,474. The title of the proposed research is Older Adults' learning and adaptation as resilience processes to counter social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional details available on the Pacific Newsroom.

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Dr. Strickland-Hughes Awarded Thomas J. Long Foundation Core Fellowship for Teaching

12/16/2019

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   Dr. Carla Strickland-Hughes was awarded a Thomas J. Long Foundation Core Fellowship award for teaching of freshman general education classes Fall 2019. The criteria of the fellowship are innovation and excellence in teaching. Carla’s proposal for the award highlighted an intergenerational book club and film screening. She designed the intergenerational activities to address negative stereotypes about old age and aging and concurrently afford opportunities for students to strengthen their communication and critical thinking skills, as well as their self-understanding, a key mission of Pacific’s General Education program. Students in Carla’s class and members of the local chapter of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute read Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie, a memoir-style book providing lessons about how to be good citizens and to lead fulfilled lives that are informed by anticipation of one’ s own death. Groups convened for respectful, confidential discussion of the themes in the book for two 90-minute sessions. Students practiced their critical thinking and analysis skills by preparing their own discussion questions based on the text.  The groups discussed these questions in semi-structured small groups and worked together to “solve” the problems of the “meaning of life” and “how to live a meaningful life, with a sense of purpose.” Students submitted a capstone writing assignment wherein they summarized the experience and connected what they learned from the discussion and from the book to their own lives, emphasizing their self-understanding, and to understanding of a good society, which was the topic of the class. After the book club, participants attended a screening of the film adaptation of Tuesdays with Morrie win an expert panel Q&A consisting of Robin Imhof (film and literature enthusiast), William Bloxham (long-term hospice volunteer), and Carla Strickland-Hughes (gerontologist). These activities may help counteract pervasive negative stereotypes about old age and aging, as research suggests that increased knowledge and experience reduce our reliance on stereotypes and that positive intergenerational contact might improve attitudes towards old age.
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Time Perspective from Adolescence through Adulthood Webinar

12/13/2019

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Please register for the free upcoming SSHD Webinar, Time Perspective from Adolescence through Adulthood, on Dec. 13, 2019 at 12:00 PM (EST) at: 
https://montclair.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_miKeHBE-TQagkfey6YsBsg

Time is as basic as the air we inhale, yet investigate on time point of view—how we ponder the past, present, and future—still can't seem to look at the develop from puberty to adulthood. In this online course dependent on covers a Special Issue of Research in Human Development, the speakers present time point of view as a multidimensional, formative, and modifiable build. At that point, four investigations on the subject including teenagers, youthful grown-ups, moderately aged grown-ups, and more established grown-ups are introduced. This exploration consolidates various members and age-explicit results. On the whole, this work makes way for the following time of research on time viewpoint.

The Relationship Between Future Time Perspective and Memory Control Beliefs in Older Adults, which Dr. Carla Strickland-Hughes co-authored with Dr. Barber will, will be discussed. 

Those who are interested in reading the complete published articles can find them in the upcoming issue of Research in Human Development 




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Dr. Strickland-Hughes Interviewed on Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Podcast

10/28/2019

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Dr. Carla Strickland-Hughes, Principal Investigator of the Aging and Cognitive Training Lab was interviewed by Jennifer Juanitas, the Program Director of University of the Pacific's chapter of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. They discuss dangers of negative attitudes towards aging, benefits of lifelong learning, and strategies for memory success. Listen to the full episode at Pacific Tiger Broadcasting, or Apple iTunes or Spotify.

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Dr. Strickland-Hughes Keynote Speaker at Funeral Consumer's Alliance Annual Meeting

10/13/2019

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Dr. Strickland-Hughes was the keynote speaker for the annual meeting of the San Joaquin County and the Mother Lode local chapter of the Funeral Consumers Alliance (FCA). The FCA s a non-profit, non-sectarian consumer education program that aims to educate the public on issues regarding affordable funeral costs (see the facebook page for news). The title of her talk was Memory (and Aging) Myths (and Tips). Attendees reported enjoying information about not blaming aging, instead that we can keep learning, how to move more useful information from temporary working memory to long-term memory, and practices for memorizing.

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