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Steven Weiland

Steven Weiland is professor of higher education and director of the Jewish Studies Program at Michigan State University, where he teaches in the Department of English. Weiland teaches courses in adult development and aging, research methods, and the humanities. He is the author of Intellectual Craftsmen: Ways and Works in American Scholarship, 1935–1990.

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Bernice L. Neugarten

Beginning the 1950s, Bernice Neugarten began groundbreaking research on aging that exploded many myths about the elderly and emphasized the importance of tailoring services to the needs of individual elderly people. She became the University of Chicago’s first tenured professor of human development in 1960 and wrote eight books and more than 150 articles on her research.