The Frank Caro Scholarship for Social Justice in Aging will support doctoral students with full tuition coverage, year-round research stipends, and professional development funding.
A new scholarship at the University of Massachusetts Boston will offer doctoral students the opportunity to prioritize under-represented communities in their research and/or service. The scholarship was created by the university’s Gerontology Institute and its Department of Gerontology.
The Gerontology Institute is a partner with LeadingAge in the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston.
The Frank Caro Scholarship for Social Justice in Aging will support doctoral students with full tuition coverage, year-round research stipends, and professional development funding. The scholarship honors Frank Caro, a former Gerontology Institute director, gerontology department chair, researcher, journal editor, and mentor who was deeply committed to social justice.
“People of color, especially Black, Latine, and Indigenous people, often enter old age poorer and sicker than their white counterparts, having contended with a lifetime of systemic racism—which follows them into the later stages of life,” says Jan Mutchler, director of the Gerontology Institute. “To effectively work with and serve all populations, we need the leaders of our field to include representatives of these communities.”
To find out more about the new scholarship, visit the Gerontology Institute Blog.