About Del Siegle

Del Siegle is the Lynn and Ray Neag Endowed Chair for Talent Development in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. He directs the National Center for Research on Gifted Education (NCRGE) and the Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education, and Talent Development. He is a former head of the Department of Educational Psychology and former Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs.   He is a past president of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), a past president of the Montana Association of Gifted and Talented Education (Montana AGATE), and chair of the Research on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Along with Betsy McCoach, he served as co-editor of Gifted Child Quarterly and was founding co-editor of the Journal of Advanced Academics). He writes a technology column for Gifted Child Today. Dr. Siegle is coauthor with Gary Davis and Sylvia Rimm of the popular textbook, Education of the Gifted and Talented. He is also author of The Underachieving Gifted Child: Recognizing, Understanding, & Reversing Underachievement.  Prior to becoming a professor, Del worked with gifted and talented students in Montana.