Foundation recipients in the news. (Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants).

Jama Purser, PT, PhD, is a NRSA post-doctoral fellow working with Gerda Fillenbaum, PhD, and Carl Pieper, DrPH, in the Center for Aging at Duke University. Dr Purser's fellowship, awarded by the Center for Aging and funded by the National Institute on Aging, provides 1 year of salary support for her project, "Trajectories of Cognitive Status, Depression, and Disability Among Older Adults: Confounding, Interaction, and Potential Causal Pathways." Her research will describe patterns of improvement or decline in cognitive status, depression, and disability; their associations and effect on each other; and their influence on nursing home placement and mortality in a large representative sample of older adults. Dr Purser received PODS scholarships in 1998 and 1999 from the Foundation.

Kathy M Shipp, PT, PhD, was awarded an American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) Young Investigator Award for her abstract "Thoracic Kyphosis and Rate of Incident Vertebral Fracture" based on her dissertation of the same title. The Society's Young Investigator Awards are given to people who are within 5 years of completing a PhD or clinical residency and the first and presenting author of the highest-ranking abstracts within distinct categories. Dr Shipp will receive $1,000 and a plaque presented at the ASBMR President's Private Reception at the annual meeting on September 23, 2002, in San Antonio, Tex. Dr Shipp received PODS scholarship funding in 1998 and is the recipient of a Foundation NIFTI fellowship in 2002 for her research project, "Early Ambulation with a FourWheeled Walker and Mobility Re-education to Manage Painful Osteoporotic Vertebral Fracture."