The Board of Governors approved the appointment of Martha Crago as Vice-President Research for a five-year term, effective July 1, 2008.
Dr. Crago is currently Vice-Rector (International and Institutional Relations) at the University of Montreal, a vice-presidential position covering the university's international research activities and government relations. Previously, she served as a professor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. She held various administrative posts at McGill as well, including Associate Provost (Academic Programs) and Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.Â
She has served as President of the Canadian Association for Graduate Studies and currently she is a member of the University Advisory Group at Industry Canada. Dr. Crago has published extensively and serves as Editor of Applied Psycholinguistics published by Cambridge University Press and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research and the Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology.
HÂ₫» President Tom Traves said Dr. Crago's skills, experience and leadership will serve HÂ₫» well as the university builds on successful recent efforts to expand its outstanding research programs.