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Aging in Chile

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Ursula Staudinger visited Chile at the beginning of January. Her visit took place in the framework of the project “When Does Retirement Optimize Health? Causal Effects of Retirement Timing on Health Outcomes and Healthy Behavior of Older Americans and Chileans”, financed by the Columbia-Chile Fund established by Columbia and Chile’s National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT). Read more

Live Talk at the Nobel Week Dialogue

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At this year’s „Nobel Week Dialogue“ on 9 December, a selected group of Nobel laureates, world leading scientists as well as politicians and intellectuals discussed the implications of an aging world population. In her plenary contribution „Change and Growth – a Paradox?“ Ursula Staudinger spoke about the opportunities of societies of longer lives. Based on her research, she challenges the notion that aging and shrinking populations put an end to economic growth and innovation. Read more

Award Ceremony in Braunschweig

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On 21 November, Braunschweig’s Mayor Ulrich Markurth presented the Braunschweig Research Prize 2014 to Ursula Staudinger at the award ceremony with 120 invited guests. Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil, Professor Jürgen Hesselbach, President of Braunschweig Technical University, and Professor Jörg Hacker, President of the German National Academy Leopoldina, honored her outstanding research on the plasticity of the aging process. Read more

First Columbia Aging Workshop

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On November 11, the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and the Columbia Aging Center joined forces to present the first Columbia Aging Workshop “The Aging of Mind, Brain and Behavior in Context”. More than 50 Columbia researchers – as well as President Bollinger and other University administrators – attended the workshop that highlighted the University’s commitment to advancing interdisciplinary research on aging. Read more