Congratulations to our MiCDA affiliates who were granted Fellow status by geosociety.bsky.social! We’d like to celebrate Elham Mahmoudi, Courtney Polenick, and seoyounkimphd.bsky.social for this achievement and for their outstanding contributions to the field of gerontology.

Curious about our summer course next week and missed the application deadline? Good news: you can still audit the course to attend lectures and office hours! Visit nhats.org/learning-opp... to learn more and sign up.

One week until the Changing Demography of Family Caregiving Network webinar! You can still register at myumi.ch/y1MNW for this event including five presentations from network members.

#PAA2026 Saturday, 5/9, 11:30-12:45 CT Revisiting Interviewer Effects in a Multilingual Context MiCDA affiliate: Brady West Room: 103

#PAA2026 Saturday, 5/9, 11:00-12:30 CT Beyond the Factory Walls in the Cigarette Capital of the World: Black Tobacco Labor Activism and Stroke Mortality in 20th-Century Richmond, Virginia MiCDA affiliate: Helen Meier Room: 220-227

#PAA2026 Saturday, 5/9, 10:00-11:15 CT Biomarkers of Dementia and Exposures MiCDA affiliate: Jessica Faul (Chair) Room: 260

#PAA2026 Saturday, 5/9, 10:00-11:15 CT Are Social Network Characteristics Associated with Caregiver Loneliness? A Comparison of Family Caregivers to Older Adults With and Without Dementia MiCDA affiliate: Esther Friedman Room: 266

#PAA2026 Saturday, 5/9, 10:00-11:15 CT From Gendered Expectations to Gendered Care Realities for Older Adults with Dementia MiCDA affiliate: Sarah Patterson Room: 266

#PAA2026 Friday, 5/8, 3:00-4:15 CT Biology and Population Health MiCDA affiliate: Colter Mitchell (Chair), Helen Meier (Discussant) Room: 267

#PAA2026 Friday, 5/8, 3:00-4:15 CT Timing-dependent associations between childhood internalizing symptoms and DNA methylation MiCDA affiliate: Colter Mitchell Room: 102

#PAA2026 Friday, 5/8, 3:00-4:30 CT Gender Differences in Mental Illness, Depression and Anxiety Across Households, Institutions, and Homeless Shelters: A Population-Based Analysis MiCDA affiliate: Amy Pienta Room: 220-227

#PAA2026 Friday, 5/8, 3:00-4:15 CT Longitudinal Associations Between Job Insecurity and Cognitive Function: Evidence of Spousal Effect Modification in the Health and Retirement Study MiCDA affiliate: Colter Mitchell Room: 242

#PAA2026 Friday, 5/8, 11:00-12:15 CT Employment Trajectories and Late-Life Cognitive Function: Do Race/Ethnicity and Gender Matter? MiCDA affiliate: HwaJung Choi Room: 105

#PAA2026 Friday, 5/8, 10:30-12:00 CT Subjective Neighborhood Physical Disorder and Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Bioenergetics: Results from the Study of Muscle, Mobility & Aging (SOMMA) MiCDA affiliates: Kate Duchowny, Grace Noppert, Philippa Clarke Room: 220-227

#PAA2026 Friday, 5/8, 9:30-10:45 CT Data Availability and Access MiCDA affiliate: Margaret Levenstein Room: 103

#PAA2026 Friday, 5/8, 8:30-10:00 CT Work Exposures and Mid-Life Health Using the IAM+ Index MiCDA affiliates: Amanda Sonnega Room: 220-227

#PAA2026 Friday, 5/8, 8:00-9:15 CT The links between childhood conditions and epigenetic aging across three countries: Concordant and discordant results from Ireland, Northern Ireland, and the US MiCDA affiliate: Jessica Faul, Colter Mitchell Room: 220-277

#PAA2026 Thursday, 5/7, 3:15-4:45 CT Understanding NIH-Funded Training Opportunities for Early Career Population Scientists MiCDA affiliates: Sarah Burgard (Chair) Room: 105

#PAA2026 Thursday, 5/7, 3:15-4:45 CT Volunteering and the Incidence of First Stroke: Entropy-Balanced Survival Analyses of Older Americans MiCDA affiliate: Seoyoun Kim Room: 220-277

#PAA2026 Thursday, 5/7, 1:45-3:00 CT Linking Social Phenotypes and Biological Aging: A Life Course Analysis from Three Harmonized U.S. Studies MiCDA affiliates: Jessica Faul, Colter Mitchell Room: 104

#PAA2026 Thursday, 5/7, 10:30-12:00 CT Intersecting Inequalities: How Age, Race, Gender, and Place Shape Older Age Well-Being MiCDA affiliate: Jody Schimmel Hyde (Discussant) Room: 104

#PAA2026 Thursday, 5/7, 10:30-12:00 CT Caregiver Attitudes About Public/Private Responsibility for Helping with Personal Care MiCDA affiliate: Sarah Patterson Room: 220-227

#PAA2026 Thursday, 5/7, 9:30-10:45 CT Neighborhood Social, Physical, and Network Conditions Shape Older Adults’ Everyday Safety MiCDA affiliate: Kate Cagney Room: 261

#PAA2026 Thursday, 5/7, 9:30-10:45 CT Age at menopause and cognition in later life – a cross-nation comparison study between China and India MiCDA affiliate: Lindsay Kobayashi Room: 102

#PAA2026 Thursday, 5/7, 9:30-10:45 CT Do retrospectively-collected relationship measures match prospective reports? MiCDA affiliate: Sarah Burgard Room: 266

Join us for the 2026 UMAging Initiative Symposium: "Stress, Resiliency, and Health in Later Life" this Thursday, March 26th! UMich's aging centers will host presentations and posters on a range of topics related to older adult health, with networking opportunities. Register here: myumi.ch/JP3kE

Don't miss the 1st Annual Schoeni TRENDS Lecture this Friday, March 27th, from 12-2pm EST! Registration ends today, so register now to get the webinar link: micda.isr.umich.edu/programs/the...

Congratulations to MiCDA affiliate Mengyao Hu & colleagues Y.L. Murphey & R. Gonzalez! Work using @NHATS_NSOC, titled Deep Neural Network Ensembles for the Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Using Imbalanced Clock Drawing Test Images, was selected the best paper of the IEEE CCWC 2025 conference!