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Department: Child Development and Family Science
Institution: North Dakota State University

Marlys Bratteli, is an Assitant Professor in the Department of Child Development and Family Science, North Dakota State University. Her research interests include General Aging and Gerontology, Transfer trauma, Demographic trends, Family caregiving, Elder protection, and Geriatric leadership/community development.

Department: Human Development and Family Studies
Institution: University of Missouri-Columbia

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Department: Human Development and Family Studies
Institution: Iowa State University

Christine C. Cook, Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University, focuses on the role that the environment plays in enhancing or inhibiting the lives of elderly individuals. She teaches graduate and undergraduate course in this area, has participated in the development of the Environments and Aging course, and will offer the course in the future. Her teaching and research activities focus on the impact of housing and neighborhood on quality of life. Topics of particular concern in her work include housing quality and affordability; community vitality; neighborhood and housing satisfaction; family and housing policy; and the special needs of women, children and the aging. She is a member of the ISU Gerontology Program and is coordinator of the graduate program. Currently Dr. Cook is advisor to a gerontology research assistant who is examining data from two studies, Life in Iowa and Local Housing Decisions and Community Vitality. Together, along with Prof. Crull [HDFS] they are investigating family, community, and housing resources available to aging adults. These research efforts will help families, service providers, housing professionals, and policy makers plan for current and future needs among the aging. Dr. Cook has published research in Environment and Behavior; Journal of Family and Economic Issues; and the Journal of Family Issues. more

Department: Human Development and Family Studies
Institution: University of Missouri-Columbia

Dr.Cooney is a faculty member in Human Development & Family Studies at the University of Missouri. Her specialty area is family gerontology and life course. She has written widely on such topics as family change (reduced fertility, increased divorce) and its impact on adult child-parent relationships, and is currently considering how grandparents' custodial care of grandchildren affects other family relationships.more

Department: Center on Aging
Institution: Kansas State University

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Department: Child Development and Family Science
Institution: North Dakota State University

Margaret A. Fitzgerald, Assistant Professor in the Department of Child Development and Family Science at North Dakota State University, teaches courses in the areas of financial planning and public policy. Her research is in the area of family business and is focused on gender and management issues and copreneurs. She is a member of the Family Business Research Group and has published in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Family Business Review and The Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. Dr. Fitzgerald is also a Fellow in the Faculty Institute for Excellence in Learning at NDSU and serves on the Board on Peer Review. She has received the Exceptional Contributions to Teaching Award and the Exceptional Contributions to Teaching Through Innovation Award in the College of Human Development and Education at NDSU. more

Department: Human Development and Family Studies
Institution: Iowa State University

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Department: Human Development and Family Studies
Institution: Iowa State University

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Department: Human Development and Family Studies
Institution: Iowa State University

Peter Martin, Professor, Human Development and Family Studies and Director of the Gerontology Program, Iowa State University, teaches classesAugust 8, 2008 and intergenerational relations. Dr. Martin has conducted research on personality, stress, coping, and well-being in later life with an emphasis on the oldest old.

Department: Architecture
Institution: Kansas State University

Lyn Norris-Baker, Professor, Architecture,Kansas State University, currently teaches courses in environments and aging, perspectives in gerontology, adult development and aging and co-teaches a course in long-term care administration. Her research focuses on aging-environment issues and aging in rural communities. She served as Director of K-State's Center on Aging from 1992-2004 and has been principal investigator or co-investigator for numberous grants and contracts including multiyear collaborative projects involving KSU, the Kansas Departments on Aging and Social and Rehabilitation Services. Dr. Norris-Baker is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, the
Gerontological Society of America, and a Charter Fellow of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.

Department: Child Development and Family Science
Institution: North Dakota State University

Gregory F. Sanders, Professor, Child Development and Family Science, and Associate Dean, College of Human Development and Education, teaches graduate and undergraduate courses with a focus on family science and conducts research in the areas of family relationships and later life families including caregiving, stepgrandparenting, and the quality of later life family relationships. In his role as Associate Dean, Dr. Sanders provides leadership in building capacities in technology and research. He has published and presented nationally on building technology and distance education capacities. He has been a part of the Great Plains IDEA for about six years and participated in a number of distance education faculty development projects.

Department: Human Development and Family Studies
Institution: Texas Tech University

Jean Pearson Scott, Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, Texas Tech University, received her doctoral degree in Family Relations with a specialization in gerontology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1979. Her research activities in family gerontology have resulted in published research related to coping strategies of caregivers, hospice volunteers, parent -adult child relationships, older women's issues, sibling relationships, widowhood, and quality of life of older rural adults. She teaches research methods and classes on aging at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Department: College of Human and Environmental Sciences
Institution: Oklahoma State University

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Department: Human Development and Family Studies
Institution: Iowa State University