Kenneth I. Gross

2007 Outstanding Teacher Awards.  Recently, I have been honored to receive two teaching awards.

• I am one of the three recipients of this year’s national teaching award by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), The Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching. 

Please click on Press Release for more detail.

• I am the 2007 recipient of the Distinguished College or University Mathematics Teaching Award from the New England Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).

The citation can be found at: http://www.providence.edu/mcs/fpf/maa/spr07/win.htm

 

Summary of Career: The overarching philosophy that characterizes my professional life as a mathematician and educator is the seamless intertwining of my interests in mathematical research and scholarship, education at all levels, academic administration, and outreach into the community.

 

· Over forty years of research, teaching, and administration at both public and private universities and at the National Science Foundation. 

Professor of Mathematics and Education

Director, Vermont Mathematics Initiative

 

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

University of Vermont

16 Colchester Avenue

Burlington, VT 05401

(802)656-8186

· Research interests include group representations and harmonic analysis, analysis on Lie groups and homogeneous spaces, special functions, Fourier analysis, and applications to physics and multivariate statistics.  My refereed journal publications total over 1000 pages, and I am the editor of three books.

· Educational interests span undergraduate and graduate mathematics, precollege mathematics education, teacher training, and adult education. Since 1999, my educational interests have been focused on developing courses, curricula, and programs aimed at expanding the mathematics knowledge of elementary and middle school teachers with the ultimate goal of raising student mathematics achievement.

· I have been fortunate to receive several awards, in addition to the award listed above:

□ The Lester R. Ford Award and the Chauvenet Prize from the Mathematics Association of America.

□ The University Scholar Award and George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Member Award from the University of Vermont. 

□ My research was supported by National Science Foundation grants from 1967 until the time my interests shifted to mathematics professional development of teachers in 1999.

 

· Educational programs that I have initiated include the following:

 

□ The Vermont Mathematics, Science, and Technology High School Summer Institute, a one-week residential program for mathematically talented high school students.  Recently, this program was designated the “Governor’s Institute in the Mathematical Sciences.”  [For detail click on Governor’s Institute]

 

□ The Vermont Mathematics Initiative (VMI), a statewide master’s degree program to train elementary teachers to be mathematics leaders in their schools.  [For detail click on VMI]

 

· Other programs modeled upon the VMI and utilizing VMI designed materials have been introduced in Massachusetts, Nebraska and  New Mexico and the Little Rock, Arkansas School District has adopted VMI for its mathematics professional development. 

 

□ The Vermont Mathematics Partnership (VMP), a Mathematics and Science Partnership grant funded in 2002 jointly by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education.  [For detail click on VMP]

 

· In 2006 the Intel Corporation commissioned me to develop a new eighty-hour professional development program based on the VMI, called the Intel Mathematics Initiative (IMI). Intel intends to scale up the IMI nationally.

 

· As to my own teaching, perhaps it will suffice to say that many of my past students are now my close personal friends. In general, I cannot imagine a more enjoyable or satisfying professional career.

 

For more information about me and what I do, click on ‘More About Ken.’

Email: gross@cems.uvm.edu