Myra Garces-Bacsal is the Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College of Education. She also serves as an Associate Professor with the Special Education Department and currently serves as the Chair of the Research and Graduate Studies Committee, Chair of the College Strategic Committee, and Chair of the College Expo 2020 | 2022 Committee.

She is a recipient of the College Excellence in Scholarship Award in 2022, and was nominated for an Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award in 2019, recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award in 2012 and a Service Commendation Award in 2013. Prior to moving to the Middle East, she served as the Programme Leader of the Masters and Bachelor’s Program in High Ability Studies and Gifted Education at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore where she taught for eleven years.

She was selected by the International Youth Library in Munich as an International Fellow in 2016 and 2017. She served as Chair of the Programme Committee for the Asian Festival of Children’s Content held annually in Singapore from 2011-2019.