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LAURA L. CARSTENSEN is Professor of Psychology and the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy at Stanford University where she serves as founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity. Her research has been supported continuously by the National Institute on Aging for more than 25 years and she is currently supported through a prestigious MERIT Award. In 2011, she authored the book, A Long Bright Future: Happiness, Health, and Financial Security in an Age of Increased Longevity. Dr. Carstensenhas served on the National Advisory Council on Aging and the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on an Aging Society. In 2016 she was inducted into the National Academy of Medicine. She has won numerous awards, including the Kleemeier Award from the Gerontological Society of America, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the Master Mentor Award from the American Psychological Association. She received a BS from the University of Rochester and PhD in clinical psychology from West Virginia University.

BERNICE L. NEUGARTEN was a world-renowned researcher and writer in the field of human development. In 1981 at the request of then-Dean David Wiley, Professor Neugarten helped to found the graduate program in Human Development and Social Policy in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. Professor Neugarten had a broad vision of the course of life from earliest childhood to oldest age. While much of her work focused on the second half of life, she portrayed older lives in terms of both earlier life experiences and social context, insights which led to her interest in social policy. She served as president of the Gerontological Society of America and played key roles in the 1971 and 1982 White House Conferences on Aging. She received numerous awards, including the Gold Medal Award for Life Contributions by a Psycholo- gist in the Public Interest in 1994 from the American Psychological Association. She was the author or co-author of numerous articles and books, including Society and Education (1957), Middle Age and Aging (1968), Adjustment to Retirement (1969), Social Status in the City (1971) and Age or Need? Public Policies for Older People (1982). A selection of her publications is collected in Meanings of Aging: Selected Papers of Bernice L. Neugarten (1996), edited and with a foreword by her daughter, Dail A. Neugarten.