Category: EDST

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...
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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...
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Terron Phillips

PhD student Terron Phillips named graduate student president of NEFA

Terron Phillips, a third-year doctoral student in the College of Education at Purdue University, has been appointed Graduate Student President of the National Education Finance Academy (NEFA). As the Graduate Student President, Phillips will serve a year-long term acting as...
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Patrick Murphy

PhD candidate Patrick Murphy named national representative for APA’s Section on Positive Psychology

Purdue University College of Education PhD candidate Patrick Murphy was recently named as the national student representative in Division 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology) of the American Psychological Association Section on Positive Psychology. In this two-year role, Patrick manages the...
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