Michela Gallagher, a Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1994, was appointed vice provost for academic affairs on March 1, 2008. She continues to spend a third of her time as the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Psychology and in the university’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
As vice provost, Dr. Gallagher coordinates academic strategic planning and faculty affairs. In conjunction with Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost Paula Burger, she also oversees curricular matters and university accreditation.
In the absence of the provost, Dr. Gallagher chairs the academic councils of the School of Education, Carey Business School, School of Nursing and Peabody Institute. She also provides administrative oversight to the Center for Talented Youth and Institute for Policy Studies.
Dr. Gallagher recently chaired a university-wide committee to develop appointment, promotions, and tenure policies and interim governance policies for the Carey Business School. She is the facilitator of the Discovery working group of the Framework for the Future strategic planning process, as well as a member of the Brain Science Institute Advisory Group. Dr. Gallagher received her B.A. from Colgate University in 1969 and Ph.D. from The University of Vermont in 1977. She rose through the faculty ranks at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was the Kenan Professor of Psychology prior to joining Johns Hopkins University in 1997. She has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, was the recipient of a Senior Research Scientist Award from NIMH (1990-1999), a Freedom to Discover Award from the Bristol-Myers Foundation (2003-2008), and Senior Scientist Award from the Ellison Medical Foundation (2008-2012). Dr. Gallagher is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She chaired the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins from 2000-2007. Dr. Gallagher now serves as the Director of the Neurogenetics and Behavior Center at Johns Hopkins University and heads a multi-institutional research program funded by the National Institute on Aging. Her scientific work established a model for neurocognitive aging that shifted research from studies of neurodegeneration as a cause of memory loss to uncovering functional mechanisms. She also discovered a neural system for goal directed behavior that links circuits for emotion in the brain to decision making processes. | |
Vice Provost for
Academic Affairs
265 Garland Hall
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 516-8993
mgallagher@jhu.edu Amy N. Ruppel
Sr. Administrative Coordinator
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