- Provides an interdisciplinary and integrative perspective on the process of human aging and the experiences of growing old.
- Acknowledges the complex, dynamic, and bi-directional relationships among individuals and the historical, political, economic, environmental, psychological, social, cultural and biological contexts in which aging occurs.
- Develops a new generation of gerontology scholars conversant with interdisciplinary and integrative paradigms and research designs.
- Benefits from its close proximity to federal agencies located in the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area.
- Faculty are from the seven UMB professional schools and four departments of UMBC's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences:
- School of Dentistry
- Carey School of Law
- School of Medicine
- School of Nursing
- School of Pharmacy
- School of Social Work
- Graduate School
- Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
- Psychology
- Public Policy
- Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health