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News & Press Releases
Feb. 5, 2008
NORTH ADAMS, MA – Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts(MCLA) Psychology Professor Peggy Brooks will discuss sleeping patterns of adolescents at Mount Greylock Regional High School on Monday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public.
Brooks has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Florida. She was the clinical director of a community health center in Atlanta, Ga., where she also had a private practice. Brooks taught at Mount Holyoke College, Emory University and Kennesaw State University before coming to MCLA in 1990.
Brooks founded the MCLA chapter of Psi Chi, the national honor society in psychology, in 2002. She co-founded the Susan B. Anthony Women’s Center at MCLA in 1993. She has been advisor to the Psychology Society and served on numerous campus and community committees. In addition, Brooks has had work published in Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, Developmental Psychobiology and Voices: The Journal of the American Academy of Psychotherapists.
The talk will take place in the meeting room of Mount Greylock Regional High School, 1781 Cold Spring Road, Williamstown.
