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Elizabeth Zelinski
William and Sylvia Kugel Chair of Gerontology; Elizabeth Zelinski, Ph.D., Dean & Executive Director of the Andrus Gerontology
Center, is an Associate Professor of Gerontology and Psychology
and the Director of Undergraduate Programs for the Leonard Davis
School of Gerontology. Dr. Zelinski has joint appointments in the
Neurosciences and the Study of Women and Men in Society (SWMS) Programs.
Dr. Zelinski graduated summa cum laude from Pace University and
received her graduate degrees in psychology, with a specialization
in aging, from the University of Southern California. She was a
postdoctoral fellow at Claremont Graduate School.
Dr. Zelinski is the principal investigator of the Long Beach Longitudinal
Study. This study evaluates cognition, memory and language comprehension
in older adults as well as the relationship between peoples' perceptions
of their memory ability and their actual performance, and how these
change as people grow old.
She is on the editoral boards of major journals in aging, is a
member of the Biobehavioral Processes (BBBP-4) study section of
the National Institutes of Health, participates in special review
panels for the National Institutes of Health, and reviews grant
applications for the National Science Foundation.
The William and Sylvia Kugel Dean's Chair
This Chair is one of five at USC which endows a dean's position. Sylvia Kugel established the Chair in 1989 as a permanent memorial to her late husband, William Kugel, who had a dream of becoming a chemist. He never had the opportunity to fulfill that dream, becoming a successful businessman instead, but he maintained an active interest in science and research throughout his lifetime. The Chair is intended to insure the Andrus Center's continuing ab ility to attract and retain outstanding leadership and further scientific investigation in gerontology.
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