Peggy received her B.S. in Elementary Education and music from Valparaiso University in 1980 and her M.S. in Child Development and Family Studies, with a minor in gerontology, from Purdue in 2004. Her position with the Center on Aging and the Life Course (CALC) coordinates and supports the research initiatives of the Center and its Gerontology Program, which focuses on graduate education in gerontology. The Gerontology Program offers a graduate certificate in gerontology, a graduate minor in gerontology, and will matriculate its first students into the Dual-Title PhD in gerontology in the fall of 2005. The research focus of CALC lies in two streams, social science and biological sciences. CALC includes over 50 faculty associates, 4 research associates, and over 30 graduate students across 17 disciplines. Hallmarks of the Center are disciplinary depth with interdisciplinary breadth and emphasis on examining aging through the life course perspective.