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- ↑ An annual cash award from the Behavioral and Social Science Section of the Gerontological Society of America which "recognizes original and innovative publications in aging and life course research in the behavioral and social sciences" (accessed 27 July 2014). List of Awardees (accessed 27 July 2014).
