Gregg appointed interim AD for Research
Writer:
Michael Childs, 706/542-5889,
mdchilds@uga.edu
Contact:
Noël Gregg,
ngregg@uga.edu
Published in Dean's Office, Press Releases
Gregg
Noël Gregg, University of Georgia Distinguished Research Professor and associate dean for research emerita in the College of Education, has been appointed interim associate dean for research in the college.
“Noel has graciously agreed to return in this role until a permanent appointment is made,” said Dean Craig Kennedy. “We plan on conducting a national search for a new associate dean for research in the near future.”
Gregg was a faculty member in both the COE’s department of communication sciences and special education and the department of psychology in the Franklin College of Arts & Sciences. She joined the UGA faculty in 1982 and founded the UGA Learning Disabilities Center, serving as its director until 1997. From 1993-97, Gregg served as director of the Learning Disabilities Research and Training Center. During that period, she produced over 21 videos and teleconferences focusing on the adolescent and adult population with learning disabilities and ADHD. She was also director of the UGA Regents’ Center for Learning Disorders. Her areas of specialization include adolescents and adults with learning disabilities and ADHD, accommodations, alternative media, assessment, written language disorders, and measurement validity. She has been a national expert witness for several key legal cases pertaining to accommodating adults with learning disabilities and ADHD on high-stakes tests. The author of several books and more than 100 scientific articles, her most recent book was, Adolescents and Adults with Learning Disabilities and ADHD (Guilford) published in 2009.
Gregg was selected to serve on a National Research Council committee of the National Academies of Science to study the scientific foundations of adolescent and adult literacy in 2009. She also served on a committee for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study the current research surrounding written composition development and abilities in the same populations.
Gregg is stepping in for Mike Ferrara, who has been named dean of the College of Health and Human Services at the University of New Hampshire.