List of Winners
2008
Graduate Student Winner: Cathy M. Wong, University of Massachusetts, Boston
The Effects of Educational Attainment and Gender on Depression in Later Life
Graduate Student Honorable Mention: Philip S. Brenner & Erica Siegl, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Assessing Longitudinal Relationships between Social Factors and Health
Graduate Student Honorable Mention: Deborah Gray, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Labor Supply Decisions of Older Men and Women: Who Works and Who Retires
Undergraduate Student Winner: Laura Marie Cancro, Assumption College, Worcester,
More Than Transportation: Older Adults’ Driving Beliefs
2007
Graduate Student Winner: Archana Prakash, University of Mass, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Aging in Place: Among Senior Homeowners
Graduate Student Honorable Mention: Krupa Hegde, Notre Dame University
Race and Neuropsychological Test Performance in African American and Non-Hispanic White Elders:
Do Black-White Differences Really Exist?
Undergraduate Student Winner: Yongjie Yon, Kwantlen University College
Study of Ageism and Elder Abuse by Young Adults: “Is Ageism Associated with Elder Abuse?”
Undergraduate Student Honorable Mention: Katherine Lovett, Assumption College Worcester
Family Relationships and Care
2006
Graduate Student Winner: Kerstin Gerst, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Talking About and Acting on End-of-Life Planning: Factors Influencing Advance Directives Completion
Graduate Student Honorable Mention: Archana Prakash, University of Massachusetts
Boston Disparity in Health Insurance Between Natives and Immigrants of Pre-retirement Age Group
2005
Graduate Student Winner: Lindsey Baker, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Change in Health & Health Behavior Among a Middle-Aged Sample of Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren
Graduate Student Honorable Mention: Lisa Brando, University of Colorado, Denver
No Closet in My House? The Context of Housing Decisions for Lesbians and Bisexual Women 55+
Graduate Student Honorable Mention: Kelly Niles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Long-Distance Caregiving: A Look at Gender and Utilization of Formal and Informal Support Mechanisms
Graduate Student Honorable Mention: Bo Xie, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Can Internet Use Facilitate Older Chinese's Organizational and Community Involvement?
2004
Graduate Student Co-Winner: Kate de Medeiros, University
Graduate Student Co-Winner: Susan Magasi, University of Illinois Chicago
Social Support and Social Network Mobilization in Older African American Women Who Have Experienced Stroke
Graduate Student Honorable Mention: Daphna Gans, University of Southern California
Longitudinal Age Changes in Filial Norms Over 15 Years: A Growth Curve Analysis
Undergraduate Student Winner: Robin Pleau, University of California, Davis
Studying While “Old”: How Midlife Women Students Experience and Cope with Age-Based Stigma
Undergraduate Student Honorable Mention: Katherine Paulette, Bay Path College
Decreasing Agitation in Dementia Through Music
2003
Graduate Student Co-Winner: Jessica Busch, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Anything Traditional is Best: Longevity, Identity, and Traditional Foods in Rural Japan
Graduate Student Co-Winner: Jennifer Hagerty Lingler, University of Pittsburg School of Nursing
A Relationship-Centered Approach to Dementia Ethics
Graduate Student Honorable Mention: David Stevenson, Harvard University
Home and Community Based Care – Conceptual Ideal versus Reality
Graduate Student Honorable Mention: Rebecca Utz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
To Fight, or To Accept? Two Generations of Women Reflect on Menopause, Health, and Aging
Undergraduate Winner: None Awarded
2002
Graduate Student Winner: Kathryn Elaine Grant, University of Florida
Age Gender and Ethnicity in Physician-Patient Encounters: Cultural Semantics and the Hierarchical Relations of Biomedicine
Graduate Student Honorable Mention: Cathrine Degnen, McGill University
Minding the Gap: The Intra- and Inter-generational Social Construction of ‘Real’ Old Age in Undergraduate
Student Winner: Jennifer Kaczynski, Bay Path College
The Use of Music as a Therapeutic Modality as Evidenced by the Worry Scale Research Results
Undergraduate Student Honorable Mention: Matthew Kaler
Body Image and Old Age: Exploring the Morality on Vitality
Undergraduate Student Honorable Mention: Joy Demata, Wayne State University
Deinstitutionalization and the Mentally Ill Homeless Population: Service Access, Quality Care, and Cost
2001
Graduate Student Winner: Helen Cho, University of Missouri-Columbia
Is Tthere Life After 40? A Comparison of Osteoporosis in Three Populations of African Ancestry
Graduate Student Honorable Mention: Winner: Michelle Marie Washko, University of Massachusetts-Boston
A Theoretical Examination of Generativity: Past, Present and Future Research Directions
Graduate Student Honorable Mention: Courtney Everts Mykytyn, University of Southern California
Executing Aging Online
Undergraduate Winner: No Candidates
2000
Graduate Student Winner: Leslie Vaughan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Developing an Ethogram to Record Environmental Influences on the Occupation of Time and Quality of Life Persons with Dementia
Living in Institutions
Undergraduate Student Winner: Ian C. Kerrigan, Northern University
A Place to Meet "Old People Like Me": Community Identity Construction Among Southeast Asian Senior Refugees in Chicago
Honorable Mention: Lona H. Choi, University of Massachusetts
Grandparent and Grandchild Relationships: Perception of Roles and Obligations
1999
Graduate Winner: None Awarded
Undergraduate Winner: None Awarded
Honorable Mention: None Awarded
1998
Winner: Helene H. Fung, Stanford University
The Influence of Time on Social Preferences: Implications for Life-Span Development
Honorable Mention: Tony Hebert, University of Florida, Gainesville
Capturing the Uncaptured: An Anthropological Approach to Quality of Life Perceptions
Among Elderly African Americans with Glaucoma
Honorable Mention: Dena Schulman, Ed. M., M.A., Gerontology Center, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Sexual Expression in Nursing Homes: A Review of the Literature
1997
Graduate Winner: None Awarded
Undergraduate Winner: None Awarded
Honorable Mention: None Awarded
1996
Co-Winner: Susan C. Eaton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Beyond ‘Unloving Care’: Linking Work Organization and Patient Care Quality in Nursing Homes
Co-Winner: Julie Haun, Portland State University
Functional Uses of Language in the Conversational Discourse of a Person with Alzheimer’s Disease
Honorable Mention: Hisashi Yamagata, Carnegie Mellon University
Encounters Across Boundaries: The Ethnographer and the Elderly in an Urban Community Center
1995
Winner: Lene Levy-Storms, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles
The Predictors of Institutionalization in Context: A Crises Perspective
Honorable Mention: Sylvia J. Ansay, Department of Sociology, University of Florida
An Older Family Deals With Nursing Home Placement: A Narrative Case Study
Honorable Mention: Tovah Bates, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
Loss of Self in Alzheimer’s Disease: Perspectives of the Afflicted
Honorable Mention: Linda Verrill, Sociology Department, State University
Physical Activity and the Self-Concept of Older People: Creating and Maintaining A “Physically Fit” Identity
1994
Winner: Elizabeth J. Herskovits, University of California, San Francisco
Struggling Over Subjectivity: Representations of Debates About the “Self” and Alzheimer’s Disease
Honorable Mention: Alex Hinton, Emory University
Agents of Death: Explaining the (Cambodian) Genocide in Terms of Psychosocial Dissonance
Honorable Mention: Lynell Lacey, Northwestern University
Illness Observed: A Review of the Current Models for Examining Health, Illness, and Healing
Honorable Mention: Donna M. Meisel, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Lay Evolution of Suicide
1993
Winner: Judith Libhaber, M.A., Dept. of Clinical Psychology, New York University
Gender Roles: Is There a Cross-Over in Later Life?
Honorable Mention: Russel P. Shuttleworth, M.A., University of California at San Francisco
The Rehabilitative Social Imaginary and the Dementia Patient
Honorable Mention: Eric Westfried, Ph.D., University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Parental Status as a Variable in the Diagnosis of Psychotic Disorders