He also serves as the department’s Associate Chair for Research. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology at the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Dr. Marsiske has served as a principal investigator on the NIH-funded study ACTIVE, which examined long-term cognitive training effects on elders’ everyday function, and he collaborates on several other federally funded studies and centers at UF. Marsiske is also the Training Director of a NIA-funded predoctoral training program (T32) entitled “Physical, Cognitive and Mental Health in Social Context.”