Category: EDST

Welcome New Faculty

‘Energy and excitement!’: 15 new faculty join the College

Not one, not two, but 15 new faculty members began this semester in the College of Education! “We could not be more delighted to welcome our 15 newest faculty members,” said Phillip J. VanFossen, interim dean of the College of...
Marcia Gentry, Director of GER2I & Professor of Educational Studies

Remembering Marcia Gentry 

It is with great sadness that we inform you that our friend and colleague, Dr. Marcia Gentry, passed away on August 31, 2022. Professor Gentry was a giant in the field of gifted, creative, and talented education. Prior to her entry into higher education, she spent 12 years in K-12 settings as a teacher and administrator. These experiences informed all of her subsequent academic work.

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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...
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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.

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Dr. Xiang Zhou leads research addressing autism disparities among Indiana Burmese families

Dr. Xiang Zhou, Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology at Purdue University, has received the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute grant to address autism disparities among Burmese families in Indiana with culturally adapted parenting intervention. The research will be conducted...