Sunday, September 25, 2005

What happens to gifted children when they grow up?

Well, some become gifted researchers at America's best institutions. For the past few years, Popular Science has been choosing a "Brilliant 10" list of scientists whose work will change our perception of the world in the near future. Read about them here:

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/09a7dd9a0cc36010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

(from the September issue)

Among the more fun ones: Maryam Mirzakhani, a 28-year-old mathematician at Princeton, is working on calculating the volumes of moduli spaces of curves. Nathan Wolfe, 35, of Johns Hopkins, does field work in Cameroon to study how viruses emerge.

While there's plenty to fret about concerning the declining number of engineering and science PhDs being awarded to Americans, it is good to see US-based researchers still producing plenty of quality work. - Laura
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2 comments:

Laura Vanderkam said...

Thanks for all your responses. I'm going to start an "official" thread about the boarding school article, so we can continue the discussion there. Laura

11:48 AM
Douglas Eby said...

While many gifted adults may be recognized by organizations like Popular Science [and the MacArthur Foundation, Kennedy Center etc], the majority are not.

And, as Dr. Linda Silverman notes:
"There's good evidence that many gifted adults - even some who were enrolled in accelerated programs as schoolchildren - may not be fully cognizant of their abilities."

Helping adults be more aware of what impacts the realization of their exceptional abilities is one of the missions of my GT Adults site:
http://talentdevelop.com/gtadults.html

2:48 PM

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