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GSA stands with the many organizations in our field observing the 50th anniversary of the National Institute on Aging (NIA)! Thanks in part to the advocacy work of pioneering GSA members, The Research on Aging Act became law in May 1974, authorizing the creation of NIA. It was officially established as an agency of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in October 1974.

GSA’s Generativity and Aging Interest Group (one of our newest) recently hosted a webinar titled “Generativity in a Gerontological Context.” It’s available for viewing on our GSA Enrich learning platform and I encourage everyone to check it out.

On May 18 — GSA Founders Day — the Society begins its 80th year as a professional membership organization advancing research, clinical practice, education, and policy in the field of gerontology.  Thanks to the visionary leadership of five scholars who took the initiative to establish the nascent GSA in 1945, we all enjoy the robust community of 5,500 colleagues that our Society today.

Following the GSA journals’ transition to online only publishing last year, GSA is bringing greater benefit to authors and readers in 2024 with the adoption of a new continuous publication model.

Calling all early-stage investigators! If you’ve completed your terminal research degree or ended your post-graduate clinical training, whichever is later, within the past 10 years and haven’t previously competed successfully as a program director/principal investigator for a substantial National Institutes of Health independent research award, the Butler-Williams Scholars Program may be just what you need to leap forward in your career in 2024.