- Apr 20, 2026
- by Galib Braschler
- Community Engagement, Holistic Human Health
Gerontology minor prepares students for an aging world
For Marie Cajoux ’26, her interest in aging began long before she declared a minor.
Watching her grandmother navigate the health-care system, she saw firsthand how difficult and deeply personal aging can be. There were moments when her grandmother struggled to be heard. Moments that stayed with her. That experience shaped Cajoux’s path, leading her to geriatric care and eventually to Cornell’s gerontology minor.
“It inspired me to really think about pursuing geriatrics as my
Anthony Ong
Anthony D. Ong is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Human Health Labs at Cornell University and Professor of Gerontology in Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. His research examines how social and emotional life unfolds across multiple timescales, integrating perspectives from lifespan psychology, affective science, and behavioral medicine.
Stephen Ceci
I am the author of approximately 450 articles, books, commentaries, reviews, and chapters, many in the premier journals in the field. According to Google Scholar, my work has been cited about 43,000 times and my h-index is 83-84, i10=261, with ~40 publications each cited over 100 times and 10 cited over 1,000 times. I have given hundreds of invited addresses and keynote speeches around the world (Harvard, Cambridge University, Oxford, Yale, Princeton, University of Rome
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