new voices in creativity and intelligence

a symposium at the university of kansas

keynotes and discussants

 

We are very excited to be hosting the following keynotes (titles are tentative) and discussants:

 

Mark Beeman, Ph.D. - Northwestern University
Neuroscience of Insight

 

Rex Jung, Ph.D. - University of New Mexico

Neuroscience of Intelligence

 

Discussant - Linda Gottfredson

Professor, School of Education, University of Delaware

 

 

Joni Lakin, Doctoral Candidate - University of Iowa

Non-verbal Tests and English Language Learners

 

Discussant - David Lohman, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of the Institute for Research and Policy on Acceleration, University of Iowa

 

 

Greg Park, Ph.D. - Vanderbilt University

Tilted Achievement Profiles and Creative Accomplishment

Discussant - Camilla Benbow, Ph.D.

Dean of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University

 

 

Jonathan Wai, Ph.D. - Vanderbilt University

Spatial Ability in STEM Fields

Discussant - David Lubinski, Ph.D.

Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University

 

 

Kyung Hee Kim, Ph.D. - College of William and Mary

Factor Analyses of Creativity

Discussant - Bonnie Cramond, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of Torrance Center for Creative Studies and Talent Development, University of Georgia

 

 

Matt Reynolds, Ph.D. - University of Kansas

Broad and Specific Abilities and Children's Learning

 

Discussant - Neil Salkind, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, University of Kansas

 

Discussant - Steven Lee, Ph.D.

Professor, University of Kansas

 

 

Megan Foley Nicpon, Ph.D. - University of Iowa

Gender and Giftedness

Discussant - Barbara Kerr, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor of Counseling Psychology, University of Kansas

 

presenter bios

 

» Linda S. Gottfredson

Linda S. Gottfredson is professor of education and Affiliated Faculty in the University Honors Program at the University of Delaware. She has a BA in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and a PhD in sociology from The Johns Hopkins University. She is a Fellow of various scientific societies, including APA and APS, and on the editorial board of various journals, including Intelligence.

Dr. Gottfredson has published extensively on the impact of general intelligence and other enduring traits on personal functioning in school, career development, job performance, and health. She has focused most recently on what makes some daily tasks more cognitively demanding than others, thereby putting less intellectually able individuals at greater relative risk of accidents, non-adherence to medical regimens, and failure to master the basic reading, writing, and reasoning tasks of modern life. Focusing especially on the cognitive barriers to effective health self-care, she aims to identify the ways in which this lifelong “job” (preventing and managing illness and injury) is becoming ever more complex, where medical treatments and communications are unnecessarily complex, and how health providers might best provide cognitive support when self-management is inherently complex (e.g., diabetes).

 

http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson

 

» David F. Lohman

David F. Lohman is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Iowa. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the American Educational Research Association. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship and the Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence at the University of Iowa. In 2006 and again in 2008, he received the award for Gifted Child Quarterly Research Paper of the year. In 2007, he received the NAGC Distinguished Scholar Award. He currently directs the Institute for Research and Policy on Acceleration at the Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development. His research interests include the effectiveness of different curricular adaptations for academically talented students, conceptualization and measurement of reasoning abilities, and general issues in the identification and development of talent. Since 1998, he has coauthored the Cognitive Abilities Test with Elizabeth Hagen.

 

http://faculty.education.uiowa.edu/dlohman/

 

» Matthew Robert Reynolds
I am interested in using latent variable modeling techniques to understand
sex differences in latent broad and specific cognitive abilities, whether
the general factor of intelligence becomes less important at higher levels
of general ability, and how broad and specific abilities, beyond g,
influence children's learning. Although the research has theoretical
implications, it has applied implications with regards to test bias and
evaluations for learning difficulties.

 

» Jonathan Wai
"My research interests include creativity, intelligence, methods,
expertise, talent development, and the importance of spatial ability for
math/science arenas."

 

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Peabody/SMPY/

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Peabody/SMPY/jonathan_wai.htm

 

» Rex E. Jung

Rex E. Jung, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, a Research Scientist at the Mind Research Network, and a neuroscience consultant at Sandia National Laboratories. His research is designed to relate behavioral measures - including intelligence, personality, and creativity - to brain function and structure in healthy, neurological, and psychiatric subjects. He is a clinical neuropsychologist, with specialty practice serving patients diagnosed with epilepsy, brain tumors, vascular abnormalities, and white matter disease. He is funded by the National Institutes of Health to study diseases including schizophrenia and systemic lupus erythematosus, and is funded by the John Templeton Foundation to study "The Neuroscience of Creativity."

http://www.mrn.org/principal-investigators/rex-jung-ph.d.html

http://www.positiveneuroscience.org

» Bonnie Cramond

Bonnie Cramond, Ph.D., is a professor and the director of the Torrance Center for Creative Studies and Talent Development in the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia. An international and national speaker, she has published numerous articles, a book on creativity research, and teaches classes on giftedness and creativity. She is particularly interested in the identification and nurturance of creativity, especially among students considered at risk because of their different way of thinking, such as those misdiagnosed with ADHD, emotional problems, or those who drop out.

http://www.coe.uga.edu/vita/bcramond_vita.pdf

 

» Reva Friedman-Nimz

Reva Friedman-Nimz, Ph.D., LMSW, nationally recognized teacher educator, professor in Curriculum and Teaching Department, University of Kansas. Coordinates KU's degree and graduate certificate programs in gifted/talented/creative child education for more than 30 years. Her research and writing include the psychological factors, especially perfectionism, that impact the development of creative and gifted young people and on education models that emphasize students' talents. She brings a strength-based, positive perspective to working with students and their families.

http://soe.ku.edu/reva-friedman-nimz/