UNIVERSITY OF IOWA - Key Persons
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- Administrator / Research Scientist / Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
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- Associate Director / Finance & Operations
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- Administrative Services Coordinator
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- Administrator
- Member of the Technology and Project Management Team
The Perry family of New York are longtime supporters of the Belin-Blank Center. For the Perry family, the Belin-Blank Center has been a source of pride for four generations. Beverly Perry's parents were Mike and Jackie Blank, who, along with David and Connie Belin, provided the foundational support that launched the Belin-Blank Center. The Perrys, including Beverly, her children Jeff and Shoshana, and Jeff's son William, have been long-time donors to the Center. Among other things, their generous donations have enabled us to establish and make scholarships available to students for the Perry Research Scholars Institute.
Henry B. and Jocelyn Wallace of Scottsdale, Arizona, have also been outstanding advocates for gifted students and longtime supporters of the Belin-Blank Center. The Assessment and Counseling Clinic was made possible by a generous gift from Henry B. and Jocelyn Wallace of Scottsdale, Arizona. This Clinic testifies to their generosity and vision that gifted children and their families would have opportunities to receive counseling services. Their generous donation has enabled us to make grants available to students in our summer programs that cover up to one-half of the program cost.
Mary Bucksbaum Scanlan is a longtime friend of the Belin-Blank Center, and many of her generous gifts have supported the arts. Specifically, she has supported specialized programming for students as well as the acquisition of works of art for the Center's public collection. The daughter of a well-known art collector, the late Melva Bucksbaum, as well as an artist herself, Mary Bucksbaum Scanlan is committed to supporting the ongoing emphasis on the arts in the Center's student programs. A generous gift from Mary Bucksbaum Scanlan and Patrick Scanlan, honoring Mary's parents, Martin and Melva Bucksbaum, established the Bucksbaum Early Entrance STEAM Academy. The Bucksbaum Academy puts the ideas the Center champions into motion via early admission to the University of Iowa for bright high school sophomores and juniors. This program seeks talented and gifted students in the arts in addition to those who excel in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math). As a result, the Academy is a STEAM program, with the A representing the arts.
Philanthropy has been one of the wonderfully unique successes of the Belin-Blank Center. The tremendous generosity of those who believe in providing opportunities for gifted students and their teachers has marked our founding and history. Underlying the stewardship of our founding families' vision and the generosity of all of our donors is the belief that gifted students hold enormous potential to solve intractable problems, discover the unimaginable, and create beauty when their talents are appropriately recognized and fully nurtured.
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- Supervisor of Psychological Services
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- Associate Director / Professional Development / Clinical Professor of Gifted Education, Department of Teaching and Learning
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- Member of the Technology and Project Management Team
- Administrator / Student Programs
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- Administrative Services Coordinator
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- Administrator / Professional Development and Curriculum
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- Director Emerita / Professor of School Psychology, Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
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- Los Angeles, CA / Emeritus / Emerita