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The John A. Hartford Foundation and RAND Corporation announced that UNC-Chapel Hill has been selected as one of seven institutions nationwide to be awarded a two-year $300,000 grant for the development of a new center focused on improving the health of older adults through innovative, interdisciplinary research.
The Interdisciplinary Center for Aging Research: Uniting Scientists (ICARUS), represents the combined efforts of the UNC-Chapel Hill Schools of Social Work, Nursing, and Medicine and includes faculty from multiple departments and institutes at the University. ICARUS has a three-fold mission: to create a strategic plan that focuses on aging research, to provide interdisciplinary research and training opportunities for new and established investigators, and to develop and study innovative clinical and health service interventions in geriatrics. ICARUS will work closely with community partners, and focus on four interrelated activities: scholarship for discovery, integration, application, and teaching.
ICARUS is administered through the School of Medicine Program on Aging. The lead principal investigator is Sheryl Zimmerman, director of aging research with the Jordan Institute for Families and professor in the School of Social Work. Co-principal investigators are Mary H. Palmer, School of Nursing Umphlet distinguished professor in aging, and Jan Busby-Whitehead, chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine, and director of the Program on Aging in the School of Medicine.
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