Category: GER2I

Summer residential campers took classes in art and science, biomedical engineering, brain games, and data protection.

Sharing similarities, celebrating differences: GER²I Summer Residential Camps

Over two hundred 5th-12th grade students went to “college” at Purdue this summer - at Summer Residential Camps (SRES) held by Purdue Education’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute (GER²I), that is. For the first summer since 2019 students came...

Dr. Marcia Gentry Recipient of the 2022 President's Award NAGC 22

Purdue’s Marcia Gentry to receive 2022 NAGC President’s Award

WEST LAFAYETTE, IN – Purdue University’s Marcia Gentry and her passion for pioneering work and continued leadership in the field of gifted and talented education will be honored with the 2022 President’s Award from the National Association for Gifted Children...

Chalkbeat quotes Gentry on new after-school gifted & talented program

Marcia Gentry is the executive director of the Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute at Purdue University. She also advises New York Edge, which developed the Excellence Project to bring gifted programming to underrepresented gifted and talented students students in New York City.

Dr. Kristen Seward named 2021-22 Scholarship of Engagement Fellow

Congratulations to Dr. Kristen Seward, recently announced as a 2021-22 Scholarship of Engagement Fellow. Dr. Seward is a clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies, and is Associate Director of the Gifted Education Resource Institute (GERI) and High-ability Certificate/Licensure...

GER²I provides resources for gifted students to succeed

Dr. Marcia Gentry, Professor of Gifted, Talented, and Creative Studies in the Department of Educational Studies, is Executive Director of the Gifted Education Research & Resource Institute (GER²I), a position she has held since 2008. In that time, she has...

A black female student works on a project during a GER2I summer program.

GER²I plans virtual 2021 summer programs for gifted and talented youth

Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute, or GER²I, will host multiple 2021 virtual summer enrichment programs for gifted and talented youth in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. Children in pre-kindergarten through fourth grade can participate in the GER²I 2021...