Dr. Marcia Gentry serves as associate director of the Gifted Education Resource Institute at Purdue University. She frequently contributes to the gifted education literature and regularly participates in regional, state, national, and international gifted education venues. Her research interests include student attitudes toward learning, effective uses of instructional grouping, alternative delivery methods, secondary gifted students, and the discovery and development of talent in children from diverse backgrounds. She has served as the SIG secretary for the past two years and would welcome the opportunity to continue in that capacity.