The Mensa Foundation presented Dr. Camilla Benbow of Vanderbilt University, with the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award for research in the area of gifted youth in an effort to identify different types of academically talented adolescents, characterize them and then discover effective ways to facilitate their development.
The Mensa Foundation presented John F. Feldhusen, Ph.D., with the Lifetime Achievement Award as the founding Director of the Gifted Education Resource Institute at Purdue, an institute dedicated to increasing our understanding of the nature and nurture of gifted individuals.
For his body of scientific inquiry, his influence in shaping the field of geropsychology, and for the success of his students in their own careers, Dr. K. Warner Schaie was named the recipient of the Mensa Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
Dr. Julian Stanley, professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, has done more to change the way gifted middle schoolers are educated than any other individual, and, as a result, he was selected by the Mensa Foundation as the winner of its first Lifetime Achievement Award.