News Release

New Research Scientists Appointed to Institute

September 12, 2005

The Institute on Aging is pleased to announce the following new appointments as Research Scientists.

As Senior Research Scientists:
Malcolm Cutchin, a geographer appointed as associate professor in the Dept. of Occupational Science, researches the geographical distribution of disability, and a number of other age-related topics such as community-based care for frail older adults and migration. He has used GSI analytical technologies. He has published in JG:SS, Journal of Housing for the Elderly, Social Science and Medicine, International Journal of Aging and Human Development, Health & Place, and several other journals. He has just arrived at UNC and has already joined the research team studying in-movers to The Cedars continuing care retirement community (Marshall, PI)., and the Rural Economic Transformation Project (Mitchell, PI), while developing his own research initiatives;

Joanne Gard Marshall is Distinguished Alumni Chair, and former dean, School of Information and Library Science. While a visiting professor in the IOA for the past year, she was awarded $804,000 for the project, Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science (WILIS). She is also a co-investigator on the Workforce Aging in the New Economy (WANE) project and is working to develop two additional grant proposals;

Ilene Siegler holds her primary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University. She holds secondary appointments as Professor of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences at Duke, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at UNC, and Senior Research Scientist, Gerontology Center, University of Georgia. She is currently PI of a large grant, Surveillance and Analysis of the UNC Alumni Health Study, which is continuing a long-term, longitudinal study of UNC alumni. She will participate in collaborative research with other researchers at the IOA.

As Research Scientist:
Gracie Boswell completed her two-year CPHAR postdoctoral fellowship on August 31 and will remain in the Institute to develop research through the Center for Aging and Diversity.

These four individuals join previously serving Research Scientists Thomas R. (Bob) Konrad, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Mayhar Mofidi, DMD, MPH, Ph.D. , Research Scientist, Jennifer Craft Morgan, Ph.D. , Research Scientist and Sharon Wallace Williams, Ph.D., Research Scientist.