Aging & Brain Health Alliance

A University - Community Collaboration
Director, Dr. Mark A. Gluck
Supporting Pathways to Healthy Aging in African Americans

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Photos

Photos (15) from the Third Annual Interdisciplinary Tutorials Workshop on Aging and Brain Health (Aspen Snowmass, Colorado; January 6-8, 2026).

January 12, 2026

Delores’s granddaughter, Makiya, goes kayaking for the first time in Palm Beach, Florida (with lunch after on the motor yacht, Sanctuary).

December 18, 2025

Jason Richardson (Univ. of Georgia) visits our lab to talk about pesticides and brain health, and jump start our collaboration on this topic. Photo after his talk

December 5, 2025

Gluck Lab’s Brain (and Cupcake) – Eating Zombies Celebrate Halloween (October 29, 2025)

October 30, 2025

Eisai, J&J, and Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals join our Aging & Brain Health Alliance Community Stakeholders Board for a Black Men’s Brain Health Summit (10/10/2025; RU-Newark)

October 14, 2025

A Bon Voyage & Graduation Party for Several Lab Members (June 2, 2025)

July 3, 2025

May 16th, 2025. Photos from our Soul Brain dance party for participants in our Rutgers-Newark studies of aging and brain health in African Americans.

May 20, 2025

10 Photos from AGING SMART! With Dr. Mark A. Gluck– and Glenda and Payton — at The River Club (447 East 52nd, NYC). April 2, 2025. (Plus some historical photos of the club, pre-FDR Drive)

April 3, 2025

Thanks to Delores for a special Dementia Caregiver Support Group today, with special speaker Bern Fausto; photos from Jerome who supported (Sat, March 8)

March 11, 2025

Celebrating the new US Citizenship of our Research Data Coordinator, Wiktoria (now Victoria), by crowning her as our American Princess in a lab party (Monday, March 4th, 2025).

March 6, 2025

Aging & Brain Health Interdisciplinary Tutorials Workshop ( January 7-9, 2025, 24 photos)

February 26, 2025

We are all grateful to Delores Hammonds for cooking up a storm of Soul Food to share with us her culture and cuisine in celebration of Black History Month (6 photos: 2/19/2025)

February 24, 2025

Monday, January 13, 2025. Photos (10) from Dr. Sharon Malone’s talk on older Black women’s Health at Messiah Baptist Church, East Orange, NJ

January 16, 2025

Rutgers Aging & Brain Health Alliance Co-Sponsors the Annual Seniors Holiday Ball with the Newark Housing Authority for Over 250 of their Residents (December 18, 2024; 7 photos).

December 20, 2024

With appreciation to Jerome and Louche for their Aging & Brain Health presentation to the Masjid Al-Haqq, and to Iman Abdul Kareem Muhammad for hosting us (Saturday, November 17th, 2024).

November 21, 2024

Community Brain Health Salon Luncheon, Friday, November 8, 2024. Aidekman Research Center Lobby

November 11, 2024

19 Photos from the Soul Brain Dance Party in East Orange to Celebrate Catherine Willis’s 85th Birthday (Oct 25, 2024)

October 28, 2024

Glenda and I join 150+ friends and family of Catherine Willis (former Director of Senior Services for East Orange) to celebrate her 85th birthday (10/26/2024)

October 28, 2024

Speaking today at the Mayor’s Interfaith Council breakfast, invited by City Councilmember Rev. Louise Scott-Rountree and the Mayor’s Chief of Staff (and brother), Amiri Baraka, Jr. [ Aug 29, 2024]

August 29, 2024

“Giving Brain Science Back to the Community” Formal Gala to celebrate Pathways to Healthy Aging in African Americans (Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, NJ) – July 25, 2024

August 6, 2024

Photos (11) of Gluck Lab at Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Philadelphia. July 28-31, 2024

August 1, 2024

Photos from Community Stakeholders Luncheon on Wednesday, July 10th, 2024, with special guest East Orange Mayor Ted Green and representatives from Rutgers REACH and Eisai Pharmaceuticals.

July 24, 2024

Louches, Maureen, Jerome (& Delores, not shown) promote the Rutgers Aging & Brain Health Program to the Urban League of Newark (Friday, July 12, 2024).

July 15, 2024

Glenda Wright and I celebrating Sharon Malone’s new book, “Grown Woman Talk” in Manhattan with Sharon’s husband, Eric Holder, actress Gloria Reuben, and others.

April 10, 2024

Delores cooks up a Soul Food luncheon for the lab and our friends in her annual celebration of Black History Month [March 6, 2024]

March 7, 2024

Working Luncheon at Kinjo (new Asian Fusion restaurant on corner of Warren/Washington) with our Community Engagement Senior Leadership Team (1/31/2024)

February 1, 2024

Photos of Speakers at the January 2024 “First Interdisciplinary Tutorial Workshop on Aging and Brain Health”

January 18, 2024

Seven Members of Gluck Lab Visit Aspen-Snowmass in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado for our Aging & Brain Health Tutorials Workshop (January 9-11, 2024).

January 17, 2024

Greetings from Snowmass Aspen, Stoneridge Inn, venue for “1st Annual Interdisciplinary Tutorial Workshop on Aging & Brain Health”. Tuesday, January 9, 2024.

January 10, 2024

The Rutgers-Newark Aging & Brain Health Alliance Supports the Newark Housing Authority’s Annual Christmas Gala for Senior Residents (Symphony Hall, Terrace Ballroom, Newark. December 14, 2023)

December 19, 2023

Gluck Lab Hanukkah Party. Aidekman Neuroscience Center Lobby (December 12, 2023)

December 13, 2023

Nov 30, 2023. As part of a growing relationship between the Rutgers-Newark Aging & Brain Health Alliance and Eli Lilly & Company, Dr. Mark A. Gluck of the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience was joined by Delores Hammonds and Glenda Wright, two Community Brain Health Educators, for a trip this past week to the Lilly corporate headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. Eli Lilly & Company is the largest pharmaceutical company in the country and a leader in developing new drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease. Gluck, Hammonds, and Wright were hosted by Lilly’s Diversity & Inclusion and Patient Engagement division, who are seeking their advice on how to increase enrollment of African Americans into ongoing and future clinical trials of new investigational drugs for Alzheimer’s disease.

December 6, 2023

Our Community Brain Health Salon Luncheon and Stakeholders Meeting (November 16, 2023; 4 photos).

November 16, 2023

Glenda, Delores and Mark visit the Alzheimer’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri, for a national meeting on Minority Recruitment to Alzheimer’s research.

October 5, 2023

The Groovy Gluck Lab returned to the 1960s at our Soul Brain dance party with the senior residents of the Newark Housing Authority (9/29/2023)

October 3, 2023

Our lab’s International Buffet Potluck Luncheon featured food from over 12 different countries and cultures [September 27, 2023]

October 3, 2023

Pre-Memory Disorders Research Society 6-mile hike through Malibu Creek State Park to location of M*A*S*H TV Show (1972-1983) + beachfront lunch.

September 23, 2023

Free Public Kayaking in Hudson River at Downtown Boathouse with Alejandro Santana, his boyfriend, Dustin, and Clarita’s daughter, Kat – then picnic in the park.

August 10, 2023

Celebrating Zuzanna Osiecka’s “Not Going Away” as she shifts from being our Research Coordinator to being a first-year PhD student in Psychology (7/31/2023)

August 1, 2023

July 2023 Lab Trip to Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC) in Amsterdam, Netherlands

July 21, 2023