News Release

Distinguished Lecture Presented and DeFriese Awardees Recognized at 2006 Aging Exchange

February 8 , 2006

Dr. Robert H. Binstock presented the IOA Distinguished Lecture at the 2006 Aging Exchange, an annual research day on the UNC Chapel Hill campus. His lecture was on, "Anti-Aging Medicine and Science: An Arena of Conflict and Profound Societal Implications."

Robert Binstock presenting at the Aging Exchange

Also during the Aging Exchange, Dr. Edward Brooks recognized the winners of the 2005 Gordon H. DeFriese Career Development in Aging Research Awards. These annual awards honor Dr. DeFriese's thirty-year distinguished career in the conduct and development of research to improve the quality of lives of older North Carolinians, and especially his unwavering commitment to developing and supporting the careers of his colleagues.

Sharon Wallace Williams, PhD received the faculty/staff award. Dr. Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences of the Department of Allied Health Sciences. She is also a Research Scientist in the Center on Aging and Diversity at the UNC Institute on Aging. Jean Munn, MSW, is this year's doctoral student awardee. She is a student in the School of Social Work and is presently one of seven fellows in the national John A. Hartford Doctoral Fellowship Program in gerontology.

Sharon Wallace Williams and Jean Munn were recognized as recipients of the DeFriese Awards

The Aging Exchange is an annual research day on the UNC at Chapel Hill campus, sponsored by the UNC Institute on Aging in collaboration with the Schools of Dentistry, Information and Library Science, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and Social Work, the Program on Aging of the School of Medicine, the Interdisciplinary Certificate in Aging Program, the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, the Program on Aging, Disablement and Long Term Care, and the Demography and Economics of Aging Research Program of the Carolina Population Center.