Gregory Ball

Gregory F. Ball has been vice president for research for the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore since February 2022, overseeing a joint enterprise that ranks among the top 10 public institutions in research expenditures, and which garners $1.3 billion in research awards annually. He served as dean of the university's College of Behavioral and Social Sciences from 2014 to 2022 and maintains a lab in its Department of Psychology. Previously, he was vice dean for science and research infrastructure in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University and a professor in its Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences for 23 years. Ball, who has amassed more than 280 research publications in the area of behavioral neuroscience, is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He earned a B.A. in psychology from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in psychobiology from the Institute of Animal Behavior at Rutgers University. He completed postdoctoral studies at the Rockefeller University in New York.