Research Snapshot
Former LCC Director Phyllis Moen recognized for a career studying work, life course, and occupational impacts on health
Former Life Course Center Director, Phyllis Moen, was recently awarded the 2026 American Sociological Association Section on Organizations, Occupation, and Work’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award.
Aging and Health Launchpad
Age and Height: What’s the Relationship?
As babies and children grow older, they grow taller. But as adults grow even older, they often lose height, due to declining bone density, spinal disc compression, or changes in posture that are measured as changes in height (Miall et al., 1967; Cline et al., 1989; Masunari et al., 2012; Shimizu et al., 2020). This blog post provides information about the relationship between age and height in the U.S. population in the 21st century, using data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) from IPUMS NHIS.
Network for Data-Intensive Research on Aging
The Network for Data-Intensive Research on Aging (NDIRA) supports an emerging interdisciplinary community of scientists using novel collections of cross-sectional, longitudinal, and contextual data for research on population aging. NDIRA membership is open to all researchers.
Data-Intensive Research Conference
Novel Data Linkages and Innovative Life Course Research
July 22-23, 2026
Conference registration open through July 3, 2026
Preliminary program now available
Pre-Conference Workshop
July 20-21, 2026
UPCOMING EVENTS
MEMBER HIGHLIGHT
Xiao Dong
Xiao Dong is an Assistant Professor in the Masonic Institute on the Biology of Aging and Metabolism and the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development. Dr. Dong’s research focuses on developing novel sequencing technologies to analyze somatic mutations and epimutations in normal, noncancerous cells, and applying the technologies to quantitatively interrogate these events during aging.
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Grant number P30AG066613