Jason Flatt (Environmental and Occupational Health) was awarded a $40,000 grant funded by the and as part of the Inter-National Institute on Aging Center Pilot Proposal on Sex and Gender Differences in Aging. The project, "The CoGenT3 Study: Cognition and Gender Trends in Three American Generations," is a collaboration between Flatt and , a clinical psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. The project aims to quantify social and behavioral drivers of gender differences in cognition in a large, nationally representative sample of older adults and examine how these associations change in three generations of Americans: Greatest Generation (born 1915 to 1927), Silent Generation (born 1928 to 1945), and Baby Boomer Generation (1946 to 1965).
