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June 20, 2025 (Bowling Green, KY) – Assistant Director of Operations, Tyler Clark, Ed.D., was awarded the Early Career Researcher Mini-Grant by the Mensa Foundation for his research project, Exploring Overexcitabilities and Openness to Experience in University Honors Students.

According to the Mensa Foundation’s website, this award was designed to support postdoctoral researchers and early-career faculty.

“I’m honored to receive the Mensa Foundation Early Career Mini-Grant. This grant will allow me to explore relationships between overexcitabilities and openness to experience in university honors students,” said Clark. “Some prior research has suggested an overlap, and a better understanding of these relationships can help us serve high-ability students and explain student differences."

About Tyler Clark
Tyler Clark, Ed.D., is the Assistant Director of Operations at The Center for Gifted Studies and the Executive Administrator at the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. He also teaches graduate courses in gifted education. Dr. Clark currently serves on the Leadership Development Committee for the National Association for Gifted Children and will assume the role of Chair of the Annual Fund Committee in the fall. Dr. Clark is also active in the Kentucky Association for Gifted Education, providing volunteer support including in the headquarters and during conferences and workshops. His research interests include topics in higher education, specifically related to honors education, leadership, gifted education, and talent development, specifically policy, creativity, social-emotional aspects, and underrepresentation issues; and mathematics education. He presents at the state, national, and international levels. With Julia Link Roberts, he is the co-editor of International Perspectives on Acceleration in Gifted Education.

For more information, please contact Tyler Clark at (270) 745-6323 or thomas.clark@wku.edu.