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F. Richard Olenchak

Professor
Purdue University, Indiana

F. Richard “Rick” Olenchak currently serves as Professor of Gifted/Talented Studies, Professor of Educational Psychology and Research Methodology, and Professor of Higher Education at Purdue University. Previously, Rick served as a department head at Purdue, and prior to that he served as associate provost at the University of Houston System and also as a department chair. Earlier, he was chair of Special Education as well as director of Teacher Education at the University of Alabama. His Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, emphasizing Giftedness and Talent Development, was completed at the University of Connecticut. He later completed a post-doctoral internship at a secure medical facility for adolescents. Prior to his university career, he was principal of a 2e school.

Having served as President of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), Rick also has served as President of the International Future Problem Solving Program (FPSP), President of the Association for the Education of Gifted Underachieving Students (AEGUS), and as Chair of the Research and Development Division of the Texas Association for Gifted and Talented (TAGT).

Publications which he has either authored or co-authored number over 100, including the 2009 award-winning books Social-Emotional Curriculum with Gifted and Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults, which was named ForeWord magazine’s Psychology Book of the Year in 2005. He is currently at work on a number of chapters and articles about the social and emotional aspects of giftedness and talent development, including a significant examination of the construct of “hope” and its implications on the development of students. He is directing a Javits project exploring gifted identification emphasizing individual's strengths in the affective domain versus the traditional cognitive domain. His interest in twice-exceptional and other students underrepresented in gifted and talented education serves as a platform for all of his work.

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