CAPS Friday Seminar Speaker: Tara McKay, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Health, and Society and Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University Tara McKay Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Director, Vand...

📆Join us on April 24th for the CAPS Friday Seminar
'Timing and Trajectories of Gender Transitions beyond Early Adulthood: A Life Course Model of Gender Identity Development'
Tara, McKay, Associate Professor,Vanderbilt University
Fri, Apr 24th
12 - 1 PM CT
RLP 1.302 E & Zoom
More @ bit.ly/4sP4GsW

Hui (Cathy) Liu, Professor of Sociology, Purdue University, CAPS Speaker April 03, 2026 YouTube video by CAPS UT Austin

CAPS Friday Seminar Speaker Hui (Cathy) Liu gave a talk on Data Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Cognitive Health of Older Sexual Minorities in the Digital Age
🎥 Missed the event? The full video recording is now available!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1bL...

CAPS Friday Seminar Speaker: Pamela Herd, Professor of Social Policy, University of Michigan Title: How Administrative Burdens Impact Health Abstract: Administrative burdens are the onerous experiences the public has trying to access government benefits and services.   These burdens enact cos...

📆 Join us on April 10th for the CAPS Friday Seminar
'How Administrative Burdens Impact Health'
Pamela Herd, Professor, University of Michigan
Fri, Apr 10th
12 - 1 PM CT
WCP 2.302 & Zoom
More @ bit.ly/4sdJVXz

CAPS Friday Seminar Speaker: Pamela Herd, Professor of Social Policy, University of Michigan Title: How Administrative Burdens Impact Health Abstract: Administrative burdens are the onerous experiences the public has trying to access government benefits and services.   These burdens enact cos...

📆 Join us on April 10th for the CAPS Friday Seminar
'How Administrative Burdens Impact Health'
Pamela Herd, Professor, University of Michigan
Fri, Apr 10th
12 - 1 PM CT
WCP 2.302 & Zoom
More @ bit.ly/4sdJVXz

CAPS Friday Seminar Speaker: Hui (Cathy) Liu, Professor of Sociology at Purdue University Title: Data Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Cognitive Health of Older Sexual Minorities in the Digital Age Abstract: Sexual minority older adults are among the fastest-growing segments of the...

📆 Join us on April 3rd for the CAPS Friday Seminar

'Data Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Cognitive Health of Older Sexual Minorities in the Digital Age'

Hui (Cathy) Liu
Professor, Purdue University

Fri, Apr 3rd 12 - 1 PM CT
RLP 1.302E & Zoom

More @ bit.ly/4tah5sc

Livability for Longevity Symposium- Changing Needs for an Aging Metropolis As communities across the United States confront rapid population aging, widening health disparities, and growing pressures on family caregivers, the question of how to design livable, age-friendly sy...

📆Join CAPS Faculty Affiliates Jacqueline Angel, Karen Fingerman, and Namkee Choi at the Livability for Longevity Symposium
Mon, April 13 - 8:30 am to 1 pm CT @ LBJ School of Public Affairs- Bass Hall
Registration and Program @ bit.ly/4vpKY9V

CAPS Friday Seminar Speaker: Hui (Cathy) Liu, Professor of Sociology at Purdue University Title: Data Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Cognitive Health of Older Sexual Minorities in the Digital Age Abstract: Sexual minority older adults are among the fastest-growing segments of the...

📆Join us on April 3rd for the CAPS Friday Seminar
'Data Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Cognitive Health of Older Sexual Minorities in the Digital Age'
Hui (Cathy) Liu, Professor, Purdue University
Fri,Apr 3rd
12 - 1 PM CT
RLP 1.302E & Zoom
More @ bit.ly/4tah5sc

Missed our February event, Moonshot Ideas for AI & Robotics in Dementia Prevention and Care?
You can now watch the full recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwJ0...

🗓️ Join CAPS in April for our Friday Seminar Speaker Series. We have an incredible lineup of research scholars!
🔗 Learn more and add the talks to your calendar @ liberalarts.utexas.edu/caps/events-...

CAPS Director, Debra Umberson, featured in The Washington Post, "Difficult People in Your Life Might Make You Age faster." This study was funded by the National Institute on Aging and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It focused on the health impacts of “hasslers” — people the researchers defin...

Debra Umberson, Director of the Center on Aging and Population Sciences (CAPS), was recently featured in The Washington Post for her research on how challenging relationships can influence our health and aging. liberalarts.utexas.edu/caps/news/ca...

Colter Mitchell, Research Associate Professor, University of Michigan, CAPS Speaker February 20, 206 YouTube video by CAPS UT Austin

CAPS Friday Seminar Speaker Colter Mitchell gave a talk on Using Biomarkers to Trace Health Across the Life Course.
🎥 Missed the event? The full video recording is now available!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wome...

TODAY: 'Moonshot Ideas for AI & Robotics in Dementia Prevention & Care'
Fri, Feb 27th
12p-1p CST
WCP 2.302 and Zoom
More @ bit.ly/40grMga

UT Austin’s aging research is featured on KXAN—electronic brain monitoring tattoos and soft robot skin designed to support older adults and people with dementia. Article @ bit.ly/3MxvMG6
🗓️ Don’t miss our multiple researcher panel featuring this and other work on aging research
⏰ Feb. 27 • 12pm CT

CAPS Workshop: Exploring the HARP Data: Marital and Health Dynamics Across Time in Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Couples Exploring the HARP Data: Marital and Health Dynamics Across Time in Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Couples   February 24th, 2026 11 am - 12 pm CST The Health and Relationships Project (HARP) longitu...

📆 Join Us Tuesday, Feb 24th

Exploring the HARP Data: Marital and Health Dynamics Across Time in Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Couples

11AM - 12 PM CT
Online via Zoom
More details and link @ bit.ly/4qreEzm

🗓️ Join us for 'The Journey into Adulthood in Uncertain Times'
Shannon Cavanagh and Robert Crosnoe, UT Austin
Wed, Mar 4th
12-1 pm CT
Zoom
Register to attend-bit.ly/4rpO234

CAPS Friday Seminar Speaker: Colter Mitchell, Research Associate Professor, University of Michigan Title: Seeds of Disease (and Residue of Exposures): Using Biomarkers to Trace Health Across the Life Course Abstract: As the United States rapidly transitions into an aging society, the prevalence and...

Join Us on Friday Feb 20th

Seeds of Disease (and Residue of Exposures): Using Biomarkers to Trace Health Across the Life Course

CAPS Friday Seminar Speaker
Colter Mitchell, Research Associate Professor, Univ. of Michigan

12 - 1 PM CT
RLP 1.302E, Zoom

Details @ bit.ly/4r23QZL

Dr. Karen Fingerman was featured in KXAN News discussing the newly signed $100 million increase in federal funding for Alzheimer’s and dementia research.

🔗 Read the full story here:

www.kxan.com/news/texas/1...

🗓️ Join us for the CAPS Panel
'Moonshot Ideas for AI & Robotics in Dementia Prevention & Care'
Fri, Feb 27th
12p-1p CST
WCP 2.302 and Zoom
More @ bit.ly/40grMga

College of Liberal Arts | The University of Texas at Austin Liberal Arts at UT offers over 40 majors and many top-ranked graduate programs in the social sciences and humanities taught by 750 faculty.

📣 We are proud to share two new CAPS Research Briefs!

Context Matters. Raising Children with a Serious Condition Can Sometimes Take a Toll on a Mother’s Long-Term Physical Health @ bit.ly/46QYVmg

Does Use of Digital Technologies Help or Harm Cognition among Older Adults? @ bit.ly/4rrSv5E

CAPS Workshop: Exploring the HARP Data: Marital and Health Dynamics Across Time in Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Couples Exploring the HARP Data: Marital and Health Dynamics Across Time in Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Couples   February 24th, 2026 11 am - 12 pm CST The Health and Relationships Project (HARP) longitu...

📆 Join us on Feb 24th for CAPS Workshop
"Exploring the HARP Data: Marital and Health Dynamics across Time in Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Couples"
Tues, Feb 24
11a-12p CST
Online via Zoom
More details and link @ bit.ly/4qreEzm

CAPS Friday Seminar Speaker: Colter Mitchell, Research Associate Professor, University of Michigan Title: Seeds of Disease (and Residue of Exposures): Using Biomarkers to Trace Health Across the Life Course Abstract: As the United States rapidly transitions into an aging society, the prevalence and...

🗓️ Join us on Feb 20th for the CAPS Friday Seminar
Seeds of Disease (and Residue of Exposures): Using Biomarkers to Trace Health Across the Life Course
Colter Mitchell, Research Associate Professor, Univ. of Michigan
Fri, Feb 20
12 - 1 PM CT
RLP 1.302E & Zoom
More @ bit.ly/4r23QZL

This Is Not Your Mother’s Alzheimer’s Disease People often worry they will get Alzheimer’s disease if their parents did. But engaging in a healthy lifestyle can outweigh the impact of genetics for Alzheimer’s disease.

🧠 New Psychology Today post by Dr. Karen Fingerman:
“This Is Not Your Mother’s Alzheimer’s Disease.”

This piece is an important reminder that family history is not fate, and that understanding modern Alzheimer’s research can help reduce fear and misinformation.
Read @ bit.ly/jan25fingerman

CAPS Workshop: StatWiseAI Workshop We are developing StatWiseAI, an AI-powered educational tool to enhance methodological rigor in large-scale data analysis. To ensure StatWiseAI meets real-world needs, we are hosting a workshop to col...

🗓️ Join us for the CAPS Workshop on StatWiseAI
Th, Feb 5th
11 AM - 1 PM CT
Hybrid
RSVP and info @ bit.ly/CAPSFeb5

Dr. Xie is developing StatWiseAI, an AI tool to strengthen rigor in large-scale data analysis, and we are hosting a workshop to co-develop real-world use cases with researchers.

CAPS Friday Seminar Speaker: Laura Dosanjh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin Title: Do Five Stress-Related Biological Processes Function as Mechanisms Linking Childhood Adversity to Mental Health Outcomes? Abstract: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are strongly associated ...

Join Us on Friday Jan 23rd

Do Five Stress-Related Biological Processes Function as Mechanisms Linking Childhood Adversity to Mental Health Outcomes?

CAPS Friday Seminar Speaker
Laura Dosanjh from UT Austin

12-1 PM CT
RLP 1.302 E, Zoom

Details @ bit.ly/CAPSjan23

Join us for our spring 2026 seminars and workshops! More @ liberalarts.utexas.edu/caps/events-...

How can Texas’ $3B dementia research investment change lives? Dr. Fingerman will join @TexasTribune to look at what the Dementia Prevention and Research Institute of Texas could mean for prevention, care & support for Texans.

In Austin and online, Jan. 21.
RSVP: trib.it/fNuR8c

Dr. Fingerman translates extensive aging research into accessible insights through her Psychology Today blog.
Read her recent posts here:
www.psychologytoday.com/us/contribut...

Mode of social contact is associated with momentary verbal communication of emotion and well-being in older adults - Communications Psychology Older adults prioritize emotional well-being in their relationships, but communication of emotion may differ during in-person and phone contact. Older adults (N = 266, aged 65-90) completed ecological...

A new publication from CAPS affiliate Karen Fingerman shows that daily social ties foster positive feelings, while in-person conversations remain essential for older adults to express negative ones.

Read the article here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Tackling Dementia From Every Angle Across the University, researchers are developing the next big breakthroughs in the prevention, treatment or cure of Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related conditions.

CAPS is featured in the UT NEWS Article, "Tackling Dementia from Every Angle", that highlights all the important research being done at UT to treat dementia and dementia-related disorders.

news.utexas.edu/2025/12/09/t...

Why you should embrace new technology as you age Engagement with technology, far from contributing to “brain rot,” may offer cognitive benefits to older adults.

CAPS Faculty Affiliate Jared Benge featured in the Washington Post article, “Why you should embrace new technology as you age”, where he shares his expertise on how staying engaged with technology may support healthy cognitive aging.

Read the full article: www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...