For a more detailed directory, visit the Faculty Directory webpage for academic teaching faculty.

Faculty, Staff, and Students

Betty Dodson

Betty Dodson, Ph.D.
Director

No photo available

Peggy McGraw, B.A.
Events Coordinator

Lisa Almada

Lisa Almada, B.S.
Academic Advisor

 No photo available

Casie Paulsen
Gerontology Club President
Student Ambassador

Ginger Fenwick, B.S.
Office Manager

 No photo available

Stephanie Brzezicki
Student Worker

Interdisciplinary Gerontology Curriculum Committee

The Gerontology Academic Program is guided by an interdisciplinary faculty committee that develops and promotes new course offerings and special projects to enhance education and research in aging at the University of Nevada, Reno. Current committee members include:

Lisa Almada, Academic Advisor 
Gerontology Academic Program
lisa@unr.edu
(775) 784-1252

Linda Anngela, Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
lanngela@unr.edu
(775) 784-6542
http://hhs.unr.edu/sw/faculty_dir.html

Priscilla Bender, Consultant HHS
pkbhome@charter.net

Claudia Collins, Extension Specialist
UNCE
collinsc@unce.unr.edu
(702) 257-5531

Betty D. Dodson, COMMITTEE CHAIR
Director, Gerontology Academic Program
dodson@unr.edu
(775) 784-1324
www.hhs.unr.edu/gero

Bill Eubank, Associate Professor
Political Science
bille@unr.edu
(775) 784-6670/4601

Jane Fisher, Associate Professor
Psychology
fisher@unr.edu
(775) 784-8073
www.unr.edu/psych/faculty/fisher.html

Marin Gillis, Director
Med. Humanities, UNSOM
Mail Stop 0342
mgillis@medicine.nevada.edu
(775) 682-7725

Sally Hardwick, Lecturer
School of Public Health
hardwick@unr.nevada.edu
(775) 784-4041 x 251
http://hhs.unr.edu/sph/faculty_dir.html

Jeanne Hilton, Professor
HDFS
Mail Stop 0140
hilton@unr.edu
(775) 784-7011

Ann Hubbert, Assistant Professor
Orvis School of Nursing
ahubbert@unr.edu
(775) 784-6841 x 238
www.hhs.unr.edu/osn

Karen Kopera-Frye, CO-CHAIR
Associate Professor, Human Development & Family Studies
kfrye@unr.edu
(775) 784-7010
www.hhs.unr.edu/hdfs

Mary Finn Maples, Professor
Counseling and Educational Psychology
maples@unr.edu
(775) 784-6637
unr.edu/homepage/maples/maplesindex

Denise Montcalm, Director, Associate Professor
School of Social Work
montcalm@unr.edu
(775) 784-6542
http://hhs.unr.edu/sw/faculty_dir.html

 

 

Casie Paulsen, Student Ambassador
SAGE Consortium
Mail Stop 411
paulsen4@unr.nevada.edu
(775) 784-1324

Elizabeth Raymond, Professor
Department of History
raymond@unr.edu
(775) 784-6452
http://www.unr.edu/cla/history/raymond.htm

Alice Running, Associate Professor
Orvis School of Nursing
running@unr.edu
(775) 784-6841
www.hhs.unr.edu/osn

Judith Sugar, Associate Professor
School of Public Health
jsugar@unr.edu
(775) 784-4040 x232
www.unr.edu/cla/socpsy/Sugar.html

Gloria Svare, Assoc. Prof
Social Work
Mail Stop 090
svare@unr.nevada.edu
(775) 682-8712

Patricia Swager, Project Director
Nevada Geriatric Education Center
pswager@med.unr.edu
(775) 327-2285
www.unr.edu/med/dept/cehso/ngec

Noel Tiano, Director
Nevada Center for Ethics & Health Policy
noel@unr.edu
(775) 327-2310
www.hhs.unr.edu/ncehp

Shelley Von Berg, Assistant Professor
Speech Pathology & Audiology
svonberg@med.unr.edu
(775) 784-4887
www.unr.edu/spa/vonberg

Valerie Weinstein, Assistant Professor
Foreign Languages & Literature
vwein@unr.edu
(775) 784-6055
www.unr.edu/cla/fll/weinstein.htm

Larry Weiss, Director
Sanford Center for Aging
Mail Stop 0146
weisslj@unr.edu
(775) 784-4774

Jeanne Wendel, Professor
Economics
Mail Stop 030
wendel@unr.edu
(775) 784-6695

Stephan Wilson, Acting Director
NCEHP
Mail Stop 0136
swilson@unr.edu
(775) 682-7496