Ball will oversee the joint research enterprise at the two campuses, a collaboration that garners a combined $1.3 billion in research awards annually.
Gregory F. Ball, PhD, can do it all. As a world-renowned researcher and an inspired academic leader with a track record of institutional and student success, he’s well prepared to lead the large interdisciplinary research programs, technology commercialization, innovation, and economic development efforts of two of Maryland’s academic research powerhouses.
That’s why he was recently appointed as the next Vice President for Research (VPR) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). In his new role, Ball will oversee the joint research enterprise at the two campuses, a collaboration that garners a combined $1.3 billion in research awards annually.
For the past seven years, Ball has served as dean of UMCP’s College of Behavioral and Social Sciences — a large and academically complex college with more than 5,000 undergraduate students and more than 800 master's and doctoral students across 10 departments and multiple centers.
“Dr. Ball’s exemplary leadership record combined with a commitment to interdisciplinary research, scientific standards, and diversity in education make him an ideal choice to keep us on our upward trajectory in world-leading research and innovation,” said UMCP President Darryll J. Pines, PhD, MS.