Congratulations to our doctoral student, Donnette!

Live video: https://www.youtube.com/live/KyLCAgwsPOQ?si=BFsxwMDd7lEZuTXV&t=4263 

Check out: 1:11:03

https://facultystaffawards.umbc.edu/2025-awardees/

Presidential Research Professor Award

Takashi Yamashita

Professor, Sociology and Gerontology; Co-Director, Gerontology Doctoral Program 

Award ceremony video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bktvqKMPG6A 

We evaluated and worked on a COVID-19 health outreach and health literacy project titled "Lifting All Voices: Promoting Health Equity and COVID-19 Public Health Objectives in Frederick, Maryland.” Dr. Taka Yamashita led our team, which included Dr. Rob Millar (Hilltop Institute), Elizabeth Blake (Hilltop Institute), Tanya Kreutzer Sayyed (UMBC), and Jaminette M. Nazario-Acevedo (UMBC). Dr. Jun Chu (UMBC) contributed to this project and our use of ACS data.

Check out the U.S. Census Bureau ACS Data Stories–Stats in Action!

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/about/acs-data-stories/md-health-literacy.html

We were invited to the Japan-Maryland Night event at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C.

Ambassador Yamada and Governor Moore gave a speech to get the event started. We presented our Japan course at our booth. 

Photos are available here: 

UMB-UMBC Gerontology Program: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qB7diz4wbSPR1f1r9 

Japanese and Japanese American Interest Group: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dWoBdQx3hUtbkRD67 

My individual talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_CQnSPvhok

All nice talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI8ANbT1iQM 

Keynote speech video: https://youtu.be/DgkAq7EPS1E?list=PLUlh_3xPiZZ3IyrPL9hKgCZvChO3Cwjv2 

Academy of Lifelong Learning website: Navigating Dementia

https://www.umaryland.edu/lifelong-learning/aging/resources/navigating-dementia.php

https://research.umbc.edu/grit-x/

Photo album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/gdWY3mZHU7yrHtRp8

https://saph.umbc.edu/ph-d-in-gerontology/

https://saph.umbc.edu/ph-d-in-gerontology/

A Multi-Generational Model Community — Wakabadai Housing Complex in Japan 

By Taka Yamashita, Flavius Lilly and Mio Kamijo

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01924788.2024.2403289

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Co-director of the Gerontology Doctoral Program at University of Maryland Baltimore County!

UMB UMBC Gerontology Program

https://lnkd.in/edNPCRge 

Older Hispanic adults, marital relationships, and depression. Why does the relationship quality matter?

Jaminette M. Nazario-Acevedo, Takashi Yamashita, Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, and J. Scott Brown on April 23, 2024

https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2024/04/23/older-hispanic-adults-marital-relationships-and-depression-why-does-the-relationship-quality-matter/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dsy7BIUC-w

Marital Quality and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Hispanic Adults in the United States  

Jaminette M Nazario-Acevedo, MPH, Takashi Yamashita, PhD, Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, PhD, J Scott Brown, PhD 

https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae032

Save the date and register here: https://umaryland.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5vy7KA07lgoHBoa 

Remember, this is a meme... 

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https://youtu.be/x2F0jJcGmpg　

https://youtu.be/zYb7nnsmnoc 

Unviersity of Maryland Baltimore, UMB/UMBC Gerontology program GERO710 Gerontology in Japan course is happening again in Spring/Summer 2024. Applications are due at 5 pm December 1, 2023.

If you are a UMB graduate student, take advantage of this opportunity!

Check out our website: https://www.graduate.umaryland.edu/GerontologyinJapan/

Sharing what I have learned... 

https://youtu.be/zz8jQpObV2A

Good confrence. 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/VGdhonVSZyFjaT4J9

Associations between education, information-processing skills, and job automation risk in the United States  in Journal of Adult and Continuing Education. 

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14779714231213004

Our new brief report is now published at https://www.piaacgateway.com/researchpapers

Examining Literacy Skill Performance of Black Adults in the U.S.: A Case of Civic Engagement and Political Efficacy

By Geleana Drew Alston, Takashi Yamashita, Ramon Goings and Leah Katherine Saal

Full paper is available here: https://www.piaacgateway.com/s/AIR-PIAAC-brief_BlackWomen_final.pdf 

An Intersectional Approach to Examining Breast Cancer Screening among Subpopulations of Black Women in the United States

Donnette Narine, Takashi Yamashita & Christine A. Mair 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40615-023-01781-5

Associations Between Volunteering, STEM Backgrounds, and Information-Processing Skills in Adult Populations of the United States

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-023-03201-x

Paris, Mannheim, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Copenhagen! What a trip. Some photos here. 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/jhK1CLqtTgUajAtD9 

A new course taught for the first time. Travel blogs have been updated. Check out out website: https://www.graduate.umaryland.edu/GerontologyinJapan/

Grant reports, unfinished manuscripts, unsolved methodological issues, summer course preparations, leftover committee work, reading, personal development courses, paperwork I missed, house repairs I neglected, yard maintenance I postponed, emails I put aside, etc... 

I'm one of the newest GSA The Gerontological Society of America fellows! The GSA fellow is the highest status of their membership. 

#gerontology #lifecourse #aging

... and making this meme during the coffee break. 

Our new article, "Age, Period and Cohort Effects on Adult Literacy Skills in the United States" is now available in ALE Journal | volume 5 issue 1 https://shar.es/afALPp 

Story of my life

Check it out!

https://umbc.edu/stories/transforming-the-future-of-healthy-aging-umbc-event-highlights-leading-practices-research-from-kanagawa-and-maryland/ 

Kanagawa Newspaper 11/29/2022

神奈川新聞　令和４年11月２９日の紙面

Adult Numeracy Skill Practice by STEM and Non-STEM Workers in the USA: An Exploration of Data using Latent Class Analysis 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02601370.2022.2146772 

Our doctoral student, Donnette Narine just published her first-authored article in Educational Gerontology! 

Volunteering, educational attainment, and literacy skills among middle-aged and older adults by racial and ethnic groups in the U.S.

Congratulations! 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03601277.2022.2133818 

I joined Scripps Gerontology Center to celebrate their 100th-year anniversary event! It was fun and inspiring to hear from the alumni and leaders in the field of aging.

#gerontology Doctoral Program in Gerontology - UMB & UMBC Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health at UMBC

https://youtu.be/Rd1inrYBp2k 

International PIAAC Research Conference 2022

https://youtu.be/xWf-xK_RIb0 

Phyllis and I participated in the Stats + Stories episode of the aging American workforce. 

https://statsandstories.net/society1/the-aging-american-workforce 

https://statsandstories.net/ 

Brief introduction of studying Gerontology in the U.S. (In Japanese)

https://youtu.be/chlwLv5VRKQ 

Check out the podcast of our Gerontology Ph.D. program!

https://iganson.podbean.com/e/umbc-gerontology-w-dr-john-schumacher-dr-rob-millar-dr-sarah-holmes-min-hyung-park-jenn-haddock-rachel-mcpherson/ 

Our new online master's (MS) in gerontology program webpage is now available! 

https://graduate.umaryland.edu/gerontologyms/ 

We have presented this video at 2022 STEM for All Video Showcase  https://stemforall2022.videohall.com/ 

Link to the video: https://youtu.be/su_nuoK5mh4 

Update: Our team is presenting a short video of our @IESResearch supported work @NSF @STEMVideoHall.

@RitaTKaram @cummins_phyllis @MPunksungka @alhelsinger @j_w_kramer @UMBCsaph @UMBCSocSci @UMBC_CAHSS @UMBC @RANDCorporation @ScrippsAging    #STEM #Numeracy

https://stemforall2022.videohall.com/presentations/2424

Motivation to learn by age, education, and literacy skills among working-age adults in the United States. 

https://largescaleassessmentsineducation.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40536-022-00119-7

I contributed to the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) podcast and talked about my ongoing research project. 

https://iganson.podbean.com/?action=openPodcast&podcastId=pbblog10921492&podcastIdTag=4zwd3&utm_campaign=u_share_pp&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=u_share#.YgFbyeS0ik8.facebook 

Me today

Educational Attainment, Literacy Skills, Nativity, and Motivation to Learn Among Middle-Aged Adults in the United States

Shalini Sahoo, Rob Millar, Taka Yamashita & Phyllis Cummins

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10451595211048554 

"Individual Learning Accounts: A Comparison of Implemented and Proposed Initiatives" 

Phyllis Cummins, Katie Harrington and Taka Yamashita

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10451595211046971

"Re-examining Adult Education and Training Participation by Education, Literacy, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity in the U.S."

Maia Punksungka Abby Helsinger Rita Karam Phyllis Cummins Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health at UMBC

https://journals.sagepub.com/.../10.1177/14779714211049261

Just for fun :)

A short video presentation (2:39) of a part of our recent work 

Older adults' experience during the COVID-19 pandemic https://youtu.be/D4yfihoqy6c 

Full paper here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07334648211048258 

Our new article is now published online.

"Sociodemographic and Socioeconomic Characteristics, and Basic Skills of the Nonformal Distance Education Participants Among Adults in the US" in Adult Education Quarterly. With Jing Zhang, NA Sun and Phyllis Cummins

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07417136211044509

My short communication was included in the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) newsletter September issue. 

https://www.geron.org/images/gsa/aghexchange/AGHExchange_September_2021.pdf

Conducting Virtual Qualitative Interviews with International Key Informants: Insights from a Research Project 

by Nytasia Hicks, Roberto J. Millar, Laura M. Girling, Phyllis A. Cummins,and Takashi Yamashita

https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol26/iss9/9/ 

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook on Aging and Work

Chapter 18 Living Longer, Working Longer, Learning Longer by Phyllis A. Cummins, Peter Riley Bahr, and Takashi Yamashita 

https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538129951/The-Rowman-and-Littlefield-Handbook-on-Aging-and-Work 

Our former @UMBCsociology Applied Sociology master's program student Amara Orji @amarachukwu___ just published her thesis in Cancer Causes & Control! Congratulations! 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10552-021-01475-5 

We are presenting the short video of our @IESResearch funded-project at @STEMVideoHall, May 11-18. Vote for our video! https://videohall.com/p/2069 @umbc @UMBCSocSci @UMBCsociology @UMBC_CAHSS #STEMeducation #PIAAC @MPunksungka @RitaTKaram @j_w_kramer @alhelsinger @cummins_phyllis

We are very excited to work on the project that is supported by Sloan Research Network on Aging and Work @BostonCollege. @MPunksungka @alhelsinger @cummins_phyllis

Sloan Research Network April Newsletter https://conta.cc/3oa4hS0

https://lvp.digitalpromiseglobal.org/content-area/adult-learner 

I am excited to participate in the NSF advanced research methods (SIARM) for STEM education research fellowship program! 

As usual, I thought I would be the last one to be listed in the alphabetically ordered list but I was the second last one. https://voices.uchicago.edu/nsf-siarm/our-fellows/ 

The Sloan Research Network of Aging and Work is supporting our new project on the older workers' experience during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. 

http://sloanresearchnetwork.bc.edu/

https://ies.ed.gov/blogs/research/post/new-project-exploring-adult-basic-skills-in-stem-related-postsecondary-cte 

Our new article is now available online. 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10668926.2021.1876782

I was one of four panel presenters in the Webinar by NIHAN GWEP (Nevada Inter-professional Healthy Aging Network - Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program). 

NIHAN Webinars: https://www.nihan.care/health-professional/webinars/ 

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/pnl45uqE8Dg 

Examining civic outcomes between 2- and 4-year colleges: A case study of two postsecondary institutions by Wonmai Punksungka, Taka Yamashita, and J. Kevin Eckert. 

https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0013124520986961 

https://www.miamioh.edu/cas/academics/centers/scripps/news-events/2020/04/taka-cottrell-2020-award.html 

Gerontology Gazette is the annual newsletter of our gerontology Ph.D. program at UMB/UMBC. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Do8pB3G_eAHGl_0ru3kyfXnDQqB-Tplv/view?usp=sharing 

A new article by the UMB/UMBC gerontology faculty, Dr. Taka Yamashita, and his colleagues, Dr. Jennifer Bulanda and Dr. J. Scott Brown (Miami University) in the Journal of Women and Aging is now online: Marital quality, gender, and later-life depressive symptom trajectories.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08952841.2020.1818538 

Same contents with a few minor updates. 

Introduction of our ongoing research project (R305A200261) funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. 

For more details see https://ies.ed.gov/funding/grantsearch/details.asp?ID=3392

Our ongoing research project (2019 - 2021) that is supposed by the Hrabowski Innovation Fund at UMBC. 

UMBC Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health, & Department of Psychology

Dr. Sarah Holmes

By Rob Millar, Shalini Sahoo, Taka Yamshita, & Phyllis Cummins

After completing the training... 

The Use of Online Health-Management Tools and Health Care Utilization Among Older Americans

Darren Liu, DrPH, MS, MHA, Takashi Yamashita, Ph.D., MPH, MA, Betty Burston, Ph.D., Jennifer R Keene, Ph.D

The Gerontologist, gnaa068, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa068

Dr. Yamashita and his team (Dr. Rita Karam - RAND Corporation; Dr. Phyllis Cummins - Miami University) have been awarded a new IES grant

Check our our recent one-page research brief series here: 

Check out "Aging, Health, and COVID-19" page of the UMBC CS3 here: 

Our doctoral student, Shalini Sahoo.

Dr. Taka Yamashita is the recipient of the 2020 W. Fred Cottrell Distinguished Alumni Award, Scripps Gerontology Center of Miami University. 

Dr. Taka Yamashita and Dr. Phyllis Cummins were interviewed by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. 

By Taka Yamashita

Published by the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship at https://socialscience.umbc.edu/aging-health-digital-divide/ 

https://www.cdc.gov/healthcommunication/sciencedigest/2020/hcsde-v11-3e.html 

Literacy skills, language use, and online health information seeking among Hispanic adults in the United States

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0738399120301014 

Rob Millar, Shalini Sahoo, Takashi Yamashita & Phyllis Cummins. 

02/27/2020

Literacy skills, language use, and online health information seeking among Hispanic adults in the United States in Patient Education & Counseling. 

By Taka Yamashita

By Shalini Sahoo, Rob Millar, Taka Yamashita, & Phyllis Cummins.