HONORS AND AWARDS
1970 Brand Musical Premium, Department of Music, Brown University,
Providence, RI
1978 Watson Smith Award for Best Master’s Thesis, Anthropology Department,
Brown University, Providence, RI
1984 PhD awarded with distinction
1988 Community Service Award, Alliance for Better Nursing Home Care,
Providence, RI
1990 First Annual President's Award, The Jewish Home, Providence, RI
2011 Ollie Randall Symposium Award, Gerontological Society of America 64rd
Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
2018 Achievement Award in Recognition of Outstanding Student Mentoring.
The Scholarly Concentration in Aging of the Alpert Warren Medical School
of Brown University, Providence, RI