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Tracy L. Cross

Dean, College of Education & Human Development
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana, United States

Tracy L. Cross, Ph.D., serves as Dean and Professor of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Lousisiana. Previousily he held the Jody and Layton Smith Professorship of Psychology and Gifted Education, and was the executive director of the Center for Gifted Education and the Institute for Research on the Suicide of Gifted Students at William & Mary. He served Ball State University as the George and Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Gifted Studies, the executive director of the Center for Gifted Studies and Talent Development (a center he founded 35 years ago), For nine years, he served as the Executive Director of the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities. He has published over 175 articles, book chapters and columns, and has published 14 books. Dr. Cross has made over 300 presentations at conferences and has edited eight journals. He served as president of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) and twice of The Association for the Gifted (TAG). He received the Distinguished Service Award from both TAG and NAGC, the Early Leader and Early Scholar Awards and the Distinguished Scholar Award from NAGC, plus six Outstanding Research awards from MENSA.

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