Sally M. Reis is the Interim Vice Provost for Academic Administration, a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, and Teaching Fellow in Educational Psychology at the University of Connecticut where she also serves as Principal Investigator of The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. She was a teacher for 15 years, 11 of which were spent working with gifted students on the elementary, junior high, and high school levels. She has authored more than 130 articles, 14 books, 60 book chapters, and numerous monographs and technical reports.