Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS)

UMaine Alert

Posted: April 19, 2024 - 1:32 PM

At approximately 9:24 a.m. on Friday, April 19, a student was struck by a university vehicle on Long Road at the University of Maine campus in Orono.

Emergency services responded promptly to the scene and the student has been transported to a local hospital. The student’s family has been informed.

Counseling services and support are available for students, faculty or staff who may have been affected. The Counseling Center can be reached at 207-581-1392 or you may call the Dean of Students Office at 207-581-1406.

An investigation is underway and more details will be released when they become available. Our thoughts are with the student and their family.

Long Road has been cleared and is now accessible. Any witnesses to the incident are encouraged to contact Lieutenant Noel Santiago at noel.santiago@maine.edu.

design of the maine-syracuse longitudinal study

December 14, 2018 Community Well-Being, Rural Health, Thrusts

The Maine Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS), a longitudinal study aimed at exploring hypertension, cardiovascular risk factors and aging as a predictors of cognitive functioning. The MSLS is began in 1974 in Syracuse, New York, with Merrill Elias as Principal Investigator. This first project was supported by a research grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIH).The study was moved permanently to the University of Maine in 1976; and data collection in Central New York was continued with grant support from the National Institute on Aging and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institutes until 2006 without interruption. Overseas collaboration with the University of Oxford was supported by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1989-1992).

Grant support and data collection terminated in 2009, but data analysis and manuscript writing have continued to this day with support by collaborators from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Luxembourg.

With 2759 participants, the MSLS is a large database that has resulted in over 150 peer review publications, including, among many others, Hypertension, the American Journal of hypertension, Stroke, and the Archives of Neurology. This database is archived and open to researchers both within and outside of UMaine.

For more information about MSLS, please go to: http://www.mslsperspectives.net/overview.html and https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/longitudinal_study/

Contact

Dr. Merrill Elias, Dr. Michael Robbins