We are proud to announce the recipients of the
2008 Adele Whitenack Davis Faculty Research in Gerontology awards!

The Adele Whitenack Davis Faculty Research in Gerontology awards are stipends awarded to University of Northern Iowa faculty interested in conducting publishable research in the area of aging. Faculty from accross campus compete for these awards is order to conduct applied gerontological research in their areas of expertise.

Four faculty members received awards this year: Angela Burda, associate professor of Communicative Disorders; Francis Degnin, assistant professor of Philosophy and Religion; Elaine Eshbaugh, assistant professor of Gerontology and Family Studies; and Helen Harton, professor of Psychology. Their research will focus, respectively, on healthy adults' performance on tests of cognition, the issue of overmedication, predictors of students' interest in aging and aging-related fields, and social influence in Iowa retirement communities.

These stipends are part of the Adele Whitenack Davis Professorship in Gerontology Endowment Fund given to the University of Northern Iowa Foundation for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Davis and her husband, T. Wayne, were active members of the Cedar Valley and advocates of UNI. The generous fund was established to encourage research activities in the field of gerontology and the professional development initiatives of gerontology faculty at UNI.