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What if we had a way to measure how fast we were aging that could predict our odds of living a long and healthy life?

A first-of-its-kind study of 1,813 older women suggests that the accelerated biological aging of the body -; epigenetic age acceleration specifically -; is associated with lower odds of living to be 90 years old and also being physically mobile and having intact mental function.

A new study by researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine adds to the canon of research associating physical activity with

Carolyn Fortuna, Ph.D. is graduate of the Joint Doctoral Program in Education at Rhode Island College and the University of Rhode Island. A full-time high school teacher, Carolyn’s educational reform efforts are grounded in social justice and digital media literacy and learning. The recipient of the 2015 International Literacy Association’s Grand Prize Award for Technology and Reading, Fortuna infuses multigenre, multimodal, and transcultural instruction into the classroom to help students learn about the social construction of gender, especially within the world of sport.  Dr. Carolyn Fo...

Mark K. George is Professor of Bible and Ancient Systems of Thought. He works primarily with the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and, within that corpus, the Pentateuch and narrative texts. The focus of his work is ancient systems of thought operating within this literature and the societies that produced it, whether they be social systems and structures expressed through the practices and conceptions of space, or the creation of particular subjectivities and the ways in which individuals govern or conduct their lives. George teaches courses on the Hebrew Bible and the Bible more broadly. These in...