🧠 New paper out in @plosone.org ! Where you live matters for your brain health.
📍 It's not just about poverty. It's about the full picture of your environment.
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Congratulations to Professor Elizabeth Wrigley-Field on being named the 2026 College of Liberal Arts Dean's Medalist! https://bit.ly/4sMu8zT
Dig deep into data and explore novel linkages for life course research with us at the Data-Intensive Research Conference workshop on July 20-21st. Apply by April! https://lcc.umn.edu/DIRC-workshop
A new study from LCC Member Andrew Fenelon finds older adults with ADRD receiving housing assistance tend to maintain a usual source of care, but experience cost-related barriers. https://bit.ly/4r7uEqI
"I don't like the idea of rural populations being treated as guinea pigs," LCC member Carrie Henning-Smith said. "If this is where we're testing AI in health care, there's a lot that could go wrong." https://n.pr/47mSlnM
The GSA Conference abstract submission due date is TOMORROW (March 5). ⏰ Hope to see you there! #GSA2026 https://www.gsa2026.org/abstracts
Congratulations to LCC member Manka Nkimbeng on receiving the Early Career Community-Engaged Scholar Award!
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Remember to get those abstract submissions in for the 2026 Data-Intensive Research Conference hosted in Minneapolis in July! The deadline is TODAY (February 2nd). lcc.umn.edu/DIRC-proposals
LCC Member Caitlin Carrol testified before the Minnesota Senate on rural healthcare. Carrol was recently awarded one of our pilot grants to study the long term impact of medical school construction on the geographic distribution of physicians and health outcomes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SliG...
Congratulations to Elizabeth Wrigley Field (@wrigleyfield.bsky.social) on receiving the MidCareer Faculty Research Award from the College of Liberal Arts for "How Demography Constrains and Enables Ideational Persistence and Change." cla.umn.edu/research-cre...
Did you know LCC Member Robert Krueger is one of the most cited researchers in the world? Check out the full list of most cited UMN researchers: brief.umn.edu/awards-recog...
One of our pilot grant recipients has a new article out! Check it out 👇
New research out from LCC Member Andy Fenelon looking at the relationship between HUD housing assistance and health care access among older adults with and without ADRD. Great collob with folks at SUNSHINE @umaryland.edu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“We don’t have enough supply,” says Carrie Henning-Smith, [a member of the LCC]. “It can be hard for older adults — especially rural older adults with limited incomes — to find affordable and accessible housing.” states.aarp.org/minnesota/so...
“If you don’t have coverage, it doesn’t mean that you’re not going to get sick,” said Lynn Blewett, a health policy professor at the University of Minnesota when talking to @startribune.com about people losing health coverage due to a lack of affordability. www.startribune.com/where-the-he...
"Researchers tracked thousands of Americans for decades, finding no links between ingesting recommended levels of fluoride and lower cognitive skills" - More coverage of Rob Warren and Gina Rumore's research in @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/mass...
"Researchers tracked thousands of Americans for decades, finding no links between ingesting recommended levels of fluoride and lower cognitive skills" - More coverage Rob Warren and Gina Rumore's research in Scientific American. www.scientificamerican.com/article/mass...
Coverage from the Australian network abc.net.au on the new research from LCC members John Robert Warren and Gina Rumore on fluoride: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Coverage from @gizmodo.com on the new research from LCC members John Robert Warren and Gina Rumore on fluoride: gizmodo.com/new-research...
Coverage from @cnn.com on the new research from LCC members John Robert Warren and Gina Rumore on fluoride: www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/h...
"Fluoridating drinking water is known to have massive oral health benefits, and now it appears that it also leads to better—not worse—cognitive test performance.”
“While extremely high levels of fluoride like we see in some parts of the world can be toxic, fluoride in drinking water at recommended levels is not."
“This is a great example of understanding the data and scientific research used to draw conclusions,” says Gina Rumore, one of the study's authors at the Life Course Center.
It is the very first U.S.-based study to consider effects of fluoride within levels that occur naturally and that are recommended by the CDC.
The study used data from the nationally representative High School and Beyond cohort study, which has followed a sample of 25,000 people from high school through midlife.
This advantage persists, though is no longer statistically significant, through approximately age 60.
LCC researchers John Robert Warren and Gina Rumore found children exposed to recommended levels of fluoride in drinking water through late adolescence do better than other children on vocabulary, reading, and mathematics achievement tests in 12th grade.
two boys drinking water from glasses outside in a park
Fluoride in Water: Good for Your Teeth … and Your Brain? Countering misinformation claims about fluoride harming children's IQ, a new study out in Science Advances finds fluoride is associated with better—not worse—cognitive performance in adolescence. z.umn.edu/flouride
1/7 New research: The wealth of your neighbors may protect your brain. Our new WP finds that higher community wealth is linked to a significantly lower risk of cognitive decline in older adults in the USA Link: osf.io/preprints/so...
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