Facebook Pixel CEBS Calendar | Western Kentucky University


Monday, February 9th, 2015
Monday, February 9th
7:00pm - 8:30pm
  • Location: Gary A. Ransdell Hall Auditorium - Room 1074
  • Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm

The 2015 Wedge 
Annual Scholar Presentations

Dr. Barbara Kerr

Barbara Kerr, Ph.D. holds an endowed chair as Distinguished Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Kansas and is an American Psychological Association Fellow. Her M.A. from the Ohio State University and her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri are both in counseling psychology. Her research has focused on the development of talent, creativity, and optimal states, while training psychologists and counselors to be talent scouts who provide positive, strengths-based services.

Dr. Kerr founded the Guidance Laboratory for Gifted and Talented at the University of Nebraska; was Associate Director of the Belin-Blank National Center for Gifted and Talented at the University of Iowa; and co-director of the National Science Foundation projects for talented at risk girls at Arizona State University. She is editor of the recent Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent Development, and author of Smart Girls: A New Psychology of Girls, Women, and Giftedness; A Handbook for Counseling Gifted and Talented; co-author of Smart Boys: Talent, Masculinity, and the Search for Meaning, Counseling Girls and Women and over one hundred articles, chapters, and papers in the area of giftedness, talent, and creativity.

Dr. Kerr currently directs the Counseling Laboratory for the Exploration of Optimal States (CLEOS) at the University of Kansas, a research through service program that identifies and guides creative adolescents. With Karen Multon, she has co-directed the NSF Project, Milestones and Danger Zones for STEM Women.

This is a swipe able event.

7:00pm - 8:30pm
  • Location: Gary Ransdell Hall Auditorium (GAR 1074)
  • Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm

As part of the 2015 Wedge Scholar Presentations, Barbara Kerr, Ph.D., will deliver a presentation on strategies to interest young people in STEM education. A Distinguished Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Kansas, her research has focused on the development of talent, creativity, and optimal states, while training psychologists and counselors to be talent scouts who provide positive, strengths-based services.


Office of the Dean
College of Education and Behavioral Sciences

1906 College Heights Blvd. #11030,
Bowling Green, KY 42101-1030


Open In Maps

Call

Staff Directory


Some of the links on this page may require additional software to view.

 Last Modified 6/27/22