Lauren B. Adamson
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Professor, Department of Psychology: Faculty Website
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1977
E-mail: mailto:ladamson@gsu.edu
Lauren B. Adamson was named dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in January 2003.As dean, she administers the university's academic programs in the natural and computational sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, the humanities, and the fine arts. Under her leadership, the college has recently embraced several initiatives including the enhancement of its undergraduate Honors program; the development of strategic research areas of focus in brains and behavior, the molecular basis of disease, and urban public health; the establishing of new centers in the humanities and interdisciplinary arts; and the formalization of faculty and student exchanges in universities around the world, including China, South Africa and the Middle East.
Dean Adamson earned a bachelor's degree with a major in psychology and minors in biology and sociology from Swarthmore College and a doctorate in developmental psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. She joined the faculty at Georgia State in 1980 after holding visiting appointments at Wellesley College and Emory University. Prior to being named dean, she served as chair of the Department of Psychology and as an associate dean, first for the social and behavioral sciences and then for research.As a professor of psychology and a member of the Center for Research in Atypical Learning and Development (CRADL), Dean Adamson maintains a long-standing NIH-funded research project that investigates paths of communication development in typically developing toddlers and very young children with developmental disorders such as autism and severe language delay.