• I have also served twice as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, once in the research division and once in the education division.

• Grants on which I have been Principal Investigator total over eleven million dollars.

• I have given over two hundred invited presentations, colloquium lectures, courses, and workshops on educational and research topics.

• I have advised a number of master’s degree, doctoral, and postdoctoral students, and have served as a mentor to many undergraduate students who have become distinguished mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. 

• While Head of the Mathematics Department at the University of Wyoming (1981-1985), I was responsible for building a highly successful program in applied mathematics focused on energy research.  

• While Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Vermont (1988-1992), I was responsible for building an interdisciplinary program in applied mathematics and in establishing a Mathematical Sciences Ph.D. program. 

In more recent years, I have served the:

• Vermont Department of Education as Special Assistant to the Commissioner for Mathematics Education

• Massachusetts Department of Education as a member of its Mathematics Steering Committee

• United States Department of Education as a member of the Mathematics Task Force and the Title I Mathematics Steering Committee.

• In 2003, I was recruited (on leave from University of Vermont) by Lesley University in Cambridge (MA) to develop Lesley’s programs in mathematics.  During my two years at Lesley, we:

· Founded the Lesley Center for Mathematics Achievement

· Built a strong relationship with the Massachusetts Department of Education

· Secured roughly one million dollars in external grant funds to support programs for K-8 teachers in Massachusetts.

· Introduced three new mathematics masters degree programs for elementary and middle school teachers.

· Doubled the number of graduate mathematics courses

· Brought content-based mathematics professional development to over two hundred teachers in the greater Boston area.

Email Ken: gross@cems.uvm.edu

More About Ken

 • Education

Ph.D.         1966     Washington University (St. Louis), mathematics

M.A.           1962     Brandeis University, mathematics

A.B.           1960     Brandeis University, physics & mathematics, magna cum laude

 • I have served on the faculty of

· Tulane University

· Dartmouth College

· University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)

· University of Wyoming

· University of Vermont

· Lesley University (Cambridge, MA)

and have held visiting appointments at

· University of California (Irvine)

· University of Utah

· The National Academy of Sciences (Academia Sinica) in Taiwan

· Drexel University

· Maquarie University (Australia)

· University of Newcastle (Australia).