30+ years studying what makes midlife so promising

Margie E. Lachman, Ph.D. is Minnie and Harold Fierman Professor of Psychology and Director of the Lifespan Lab at Brandeis University. She is the editor of the Handbook of Midlife Development (2001, John Wiley), co-editor of Multiple Paths of Midlife Development (1997, University of Chicago Press) and wrote the first review chapter on midlife in the Annual Review of Psychology (2004). She is a co-editor of the American Psychological Association’s first Handbook on Adult Development and Aging (2026). She is co-investigator on the groundbreaking longitudinal study, Midlife in the United States (MIDUS), a large national study that gives insight into the varied pathways to health and well-being and how lives unfold in the transitions into and out of the middle years. She received the Distinguished Research Achievement Award from the Division on Adult Development and Aging of the American Psychological Association, and the Distinguished Career Contribution to Gerontology Award and the Distinguished Mentor Award from the Gerontological Society of America. She has presented her research on TV and radio shows including NBC Today, CBS News, and NPR.