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The Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) is a 26-year-old collaborative research, community outreach, and faculty mentoring program based at Wayne State, Michigan State and the University of Michigan. Under the leadership of a coordinating center, it is one of eighteen national Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) and specialized Alzheimer’s focused projects funded by the National Institute on Aging to increase and enhance the diversity of the future scientific research workforce; mentoring promising new faculty and research scientists from under-represented groups for sustained careers in aging-related behavioral research.

Congratulations

Mosi Adesina Ifatunji and Robert W. Turner II

Ifatunji and Turner Promoted to Associate Professor!!!

Congratulations to Mosi Adesina Ifatunji, PhD (2023 MCUAAAR Scientist and 2013 PRBA Postdoc) and Robert W. Turner II, PhD (2015 MCUAAAR Diversity Supplement Scholar) for being promoted to Associate Professor. Dr. Mosi is a Philosopher, Social Scientist and Assistant Professor with joint appointments in the Departments of African American Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he also holds courtesy and research appointments in the Department of African Cultural Studies, African Studies Program, Institute for Diversity Science, Center for Demography of Health and Aging, Center for Demography and Ecology and the La Follette School of Public Affairs. His primary research interests are in racial and ethnic theory and the methodologies used to study inequality and stratification. He is particularly interested in theorizing how non-phenomic characteristics contribute to racial classification and stratification. Mosi helped organize one of the early PRBA Reunions and conducted video interviews with many people in the leadership of PRBA and those in the network.

Dr. Robert W. Turner II is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Neurology, at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He is a health disparities researcher with ethnographic and mixed methods training. His current National Institute on Aging (NIA) funded… Read more about Ifatunji and Turner being promoted to Associate Professor >

 

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