Vanderbilt Peabody College Dean Camilla Benbow will speak at the National Science and Technology Summit at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in
Oak Ridge,
Tenn., on Aug. 19.
Benbow was invited to participate in the event by John H. Marburger III, director of the federal Office of Science and Technology Policy. She will be a member of the panel, "K-12 Education: Sparking Student Interest and Teacher Training Programs."
A white paper Benbow prepared for the summit, "Fostering Innovation: The National Math Panel and Beyond," is available for download here.
The overall theme for the Aug. 18-19 summit is "Science, Technology, and American Competitiveness: Progress and Direction Forward." Called for by the 2007 America COMPETES Act, it will examine the health and direction of the
U.S.
science and technology enterprise and review progress made toward meeting the goals set out by the act and by the president’s American Competitiveness Initiative. A number of congressional, federal agency, business and academic leaders will attend.
Since 1998, Benbow has led
Peabody
College, ranked as the No. 2 education school in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in 2008. Nationally recognized as an expert on giftedness and talent identification and cultivation, she recently served as co-chair of the president’s National Mathematics Advisory Panel and is a member of the National Science Board. With husband and colleague David Lubinski, Benbow leads the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, a 50-year study that began at
Johns
Hopkins
University in 1971 of 5,000 highly gifted children throughout their lifetimes.
A full summit agenda is available online here.
For more information about
Peabody
College, visit http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu.
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Media contact: Melanie Moran, (615) 322-NEWS
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