New associate director for archiving named for Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study
The directors of the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS) announce the appointment of Susan Elias as associate director for archiving. Elias will serve as study archivist and historian for MSLS, which has data collected since 1974.
Elias earned degrees in wildlife science at the University of Maine and Virginia Tech (bachelor’s and master’s, respectively), and Earth and climate science at UMaine (Ph.D.). She is a staff scientist at the MaineHealth Institute for Research in Scarborough. In addition to her experience in data archiving and management, Elias is known for her statewide research on ticks that carry Lyme disease. Persons wishing to use MSLS data or obtain published papers should contact Elias (susan.elias@maine.edu); Fayeza Ahmed (fayeza.ahmed@maine.edu), associate director of MSLS, Department of Psychology, University of Maine; or Michael Robbins, co-director of MSLS (robbins@maine.edu).
More information on MSLS is online. The MSLS study was funded by the National Institutes for Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), and its directors are affiliated with the Department of Psychology and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering.