Faculty emeritus
Center for Talent Development Northwestern University
Darien, Illinois, United States
Dr. Paula Olszewski-Kubilius is the director of the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University and a professor in the School of Education and Social Policy. Over the past 40 years, she has worked to create programs and models to meet the need of diverse gifted learners, including distance learning programs, summer, and weekend programs. She has written and published extensively about issues in gifted education, with a particular focus on talent development for under-served gifted students.. She has served as the editor of Gifted Child Quarterly, co-editor of the Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, and on the editorial boards of Gifted and Talented International, Journal for the Education of the Gifted, and Gifted Child Today. She is past-president of the Illinois Association for the Gifted. She is Past President of the National Association for Gifted Children and received the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2009 from NAGC. Along with colleagues, she was awarded the GCQ Paper of the Year Award in 2011, 2017 and 2020 and the NAGC Scholarly Book of the Year Award in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
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Studies on the Role of Insider Knowledge for STEM Experts and Aspiring STEM Adolescents
Friday, November 14, 2025
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM ET
A Long-Standing Talent Development Challenge: When to Specialize and When to Generalize
Saturday, November 15, 2025
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM ET