Antonucci to Deliver NIH Lecture June 8th

APS Fellow Toni Antonucci, University of Michigan, will headline the  NIH Matilda White Riley Behavioral and Social Sciences Honors program on June 8, 2020. The event will be streamed over WebEX. Registration is required. See below for details.

Antonucci is internationally renown for her work on how social relations and networks impact health across the lifespan, and how social relationships influence people’s ability to deal with challenges in life.  She received the 2020 APS Mentor Award, one of the Association’s highest honors, In 2011, she received the Masterpiece Living Robert L. Kahn Award for Lifetime Achievement in Promoting in Successful Aging.  Antonucci is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the New York Academy of Medicine.

Also appearing on the program is Bradley Turnwald, a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, who received an NIH Matilda White Riley Early-Stage Investigator Award. His presentation will cover two experiments that test whether merely learning of one’s genetic risk for obesity alters one’s actual risk by making people more likely to exhibit the expected changes in gene-related physiology, behavior and subjective experience.

The Matilda White Riley Behavioral and Social Sciences Honors program recognizes the work of researchers who have strengthened the role of behavioral and social sciences at NIH and for the broader scientific community. More information about the program, and past winners can be found here.

When:

June 8, 2020

9 AM – 12:15 PM (ET)

Where:

https://www.scgcorp.com/obssr13thmatilda2020/Default

Registration is required. The meeting agenda and registration information can be found here.