ASA - American Society on Aging

2005 Awards Programs
Recognizing Excellence in the Field of Aging

Award Winners

2005 ASA GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH AWARDS

ASA gratefully acknowledges the support of the AARP Andrus Foundation for the Graduate Student Research Award. The ASA Graduate Student Research Award is presented to graduate students for exceptional research relevant to aging and applicable to practice.

Glenda Gilmore Andes

Radford, VA

Glenda Gilmore Andes is an interior designer with a background in housing and healthcare. She began her professional career in nursing after completing a BSN degree at Louisiana State University Medical Center and an MSN at the University of Alabama in Birmingham . She has worked as a staff nurse, nursing supervisor, educator, and Director of Inservice Education.

Increasing awareness of the challenges presented to many individuals by their environment led to seek design remedies for persons with physical challenges. She received a BS in Housing and Interior Design from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and MS and PhD degrees from Virginia Tech in Housing, Interior Design and Resource Management. She has practiced interior design in New Orleans , North Carolina and Virginia . Dr. Andes' professional goal is to foster design that is usable by a wide range of people, across a broad spectrum of ability and age, in the widest variety of circumstances without separate or special features.

Dr. Andes' thesis research involved studying which carpet fibers had the highest numbers of mites grown in a controlled environment in order to provide allergy sufferers direction in selecting carpet for their homes. She was a research assistant in a Virginia Tech study , Best Practices in Management and Design of Assisted Living Communities. Her dissertation research, Supportive Design Features in the Kitchens and Bathrooms of Age-Restricted Retirement Community Homes, was the original work described, in part, for the 2005 American Society on Aging Graduate Student Research Award.

Honorable Mention

Guifang Guo

Tucson, AZ

Guifang Guo is a nursing PhD candidate at the University of Arizona , College of Nursing . Her major is vulnerable populations; her minor is gerontology. While pursuing her PhD, she enrolled in the University of Arizona Graduate Program in Gerontology and was awarded a graduate certificate in gerontology in 2003. She works as a research associate in the Arizona Center on Aging and the Arizona Geriatric Education Center where she conducts research on aging and underserved populations.

Before Guifang came to the US for her advanced study, she was a member of the nursing faculty and a university hospital nurse administrator in Peking University in Beijing , China . During that time, she worked closely with national and international colleagues on various health issues. In 1990 Guifang became involved in the World Health Organization (WHO) and from 1992 to 2000 she was a member of the Panel of Nursing Experts Committee, involved in global and regional activities. She was elected as the vice chair at the WHO Meeting on Nursing Research and Training Network in Seoul, Korea, in 1996. Guifang worked with other international organizations such as Project Hope. Since 1999, Guifang has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Transcultural Nursing .

In 1999, Guifang was elected vice president of the Chinese Nursing Association for the 1999 to 2003 term. She was the only nurse representative in the China National HIV/AIDS Experts Committee. She also served as a member of the National Nursing Education and Administration Committees and the editorial board of the Journal of Chinese Nursing .

Guifang was the chief editor and author of several nursing textbooks in China and has been published in journals. She has also presented at national and international conferences including the 1996 International Council of Nursing centennial conference in London.

Corinna E. Löckenhoff

Baltimore, MD

Corinna E. Löckenhoff's interest in aging and healthcare developed during her high school years when she worked as a nurse aide in retirement communities and nursing homes. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Marburg, Germany.

In 2004 she graduated with a Ph.D. in Personality Psychology from Stanford University. She currently studies age differences in personality and emotional experience and their influence on health at the National Institute on Aging, Baltimore.