Category: EDST

Navajo Women with Weavings, Jewelry, & Beads with Butterflies by Lorene Barber (Photo: Steve Sargent)

Gentry donates Native American weavings to Eiteljorg Museum and College of Education

A love of the American Southwest and Native American cultures led a Purdue College of Education professor to donate 42 weavings to the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis.

Episode 16 Dyscalculia & Word Problem Solving. Guest: Dr. Yan Ping Xin

Xin’s math problem-solving program featured by Made for Math

Do you ever struggle with math? Perhaps this mathematics problem-solving intervention program created by a Purdue University College of Education professor could help you.

Kristen Seward (l) and Nielsen Pereira (center), interim co-directors of the Gifted Education Research & Resource Institute (GER2I); and Marcia Gentry (r), former director of GER2I; former professor of Gifted, Creative and Talented Studies

College researchers to improve access to gifted and talented education

A new College of Education research project addressing gifted and talented opportunities for underrepresented students recently received $3.5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program.

Hua-Hua Chang

Chang awarded NSF grant to provide real-time, actionable data to instructors

A new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to researchers in the Colleges of Education and Engineering will help instructors help students succeed.

(left to right): F. Richard Olenchak, Kristen Seward, Anne Traynor, and Ophélie Desmet

New grant uses ‘positive psychology’ to better support underserved students in gifted and talented programming

Using cutting edge assessment strategies and innovative programming, a new five-year College of Education research project will seek to expand the access of underserved communities to gifted and talented programming. The grant uses techniques from positive psychology to provide these...
Heather Servaty-Seib

USA Today quotes Servaty-Seib on grief expressions in social media

Midori Anderson and Orlando Foreman met on Tinder in the summer of 2019 when they were students at the University of Arkansas. That November, he brought her flowers and tried to spell out “will you be my girlfriend?” in rose...