Brock University\u2019s Vice-President Research announced March 17 that he is wrapping up his term this summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have now been at Brock University for almost five years,\u201d says Gary Libben. \u201cFrom the outset, I have been made to feel welcome as a member of the Brock community and as a member of the Niagara community.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very grateful for this and look forward to many more years of working here together with students and colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n
Libben\u2019s five-year term as VPR officially ends on June 30. He will stay on for an additional month to ensure a smooth transition over the summer.<\/p>\n
I consider it to be a privilege to be a university professor and to have the opportunity to work with students to advance their knowledge, to build understanding, and, indeed, to learn from them.<\/span><\/p>\n “Dr. Libben has made remarkable progress in going further to develop a culture of research at Brock,\u201d\u00a0says Brock University President Jack Lightstone.<\/p>\n “I will miss him as a senior administration colleague, but am so pleased he will remain our academic colleague.”<\/p>\n Libben, who is a professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics and cross-appointed to the Department of Psychology, says he is looking forward to researching and teaching in his areas of expertise.<\/p>\n \u201cI consider it to be a privilege to be a university professor and to have the opportunity to work with students to advance their knowledge, to build understanding, and, indeed, to learn from them,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n Libben is a psycholinguist and neurolinguist who develops new models and research methods to advance understanding of how words are represented in the mind and brain.<\/p>\n He\u00a0took up his VPR position at Brock University on Aug. 1, 2011, having come from the University of Calgary, where he was Associate Vice-President (Research).<\/p>\n During his five years as Brock\u2019s VPR, Libben has worked to build a \u201cculture of research leadership\u201d in which transdisciplinary research, research intensiveness and connections with the community would thrive.<\/p>\n He also led efforts to recognize and celebrate research accomplishments as a way of encouraging researchers in their work.<\/p>\n In addition to pursuing his research and teaching, Libben will be continuing his role as editor of the journal The Mental Lexicon<\/em> and his new role as senior editor for psycholinguistics of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics<\/em>.<\/p>\n Libben became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2008. He is a former president of the Canadian Linguistics Association.<\/p>\n He is co-founder of The Mental Lexicon Journal<\/em>, and was the founding director of the University of Alberta\u2019s Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics. He has also been director of Words in the Mind, Words in the Brain<\/em>, a Major Collaborative Research Initiative Project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brock University\u2019s Vice-President Research announced March 17 that he is wrapping up his term this summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":21532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,1,5],"tags":[3582,2904,252],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38149,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38146\/revisions\/38149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}