Shenk honored by Association for Gerontology in Higher Education

Dena Shenk, professor of anthropology, recently received the Mildred Seltzer Distinguished Service Recognition from the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.

The Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) is the educational branch of the Gerontological Society of America, the nation’s oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to research, education and practice in the field of aging.

According to the AGHE, the Seltzer Distinguished Service Recognition “honors colleagues who are near retirement or recently retired. Recipients are individuals who have been actively involved in AGHE through service on committees, as elected officers and/or have provided leadership in one of AGHE’s grant-funded projects.”

Seltzer is the former assistant director of the Scripps Gerontology Center; she taught and published widely in the field of gerontology as a professor at Miami University in Ohio from the 1960s until her death in 1995.