{"id":1387,"date":"2010-07-30T16:12:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T22:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2010-08-16T14:01:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T20:01:54","slug":"abrams-to-lead-convocation-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=1387","title":{"rendered":"Abrams to lead convocation ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uccs.edu\/~gabrams\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1389\" title=\"AbramsphotoforSept05TeachingPresentation\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/AbramsphotoforSept05TeachingPresentation-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/AbramsphotoforSept05TeachingPresentation-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/AbramsphotoforSept05TeachingPresentation.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The 2010-11 academic year will officially begin at 4:30 pm. Aug. 18 with a convocation ceremony featuring Gene Abrams, professor, Mathematics, and a presidential teaching scholar.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams will begin his 27<sup>th<\/sup> year on campus by addressing a crowd of predominantly freshman students gathered at the Gallogly Events Center, built specifically to allow large on-campus events in addition to athletic contests.<\/p>\n<p>Titled \u201cThe 5,000<sup>th<\/sup> Lecture,\u201d Abrams will share insights from the book \u201cThe Last Lecture\u201d written by the late Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Pausch died in July 2008 from pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGene exemplifies the combination of research, teaching and service that are the fabric of UCCS,\u201d Peg Bacon, provost, said. \u201cHe has worked to make a difficult subject accessible for his students and has conducted research to gauge their progress and alter teaching methods accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abrams was named a Presidential Teaching Scholar in 1996 and earlier earned both campus and regional teaching awards in addition to\u00a0authoring or co-authoring \u00a0more than 40 published\u00a0articles on mathematics research, various articles on mathematics teaching and a book (in preparation) with two Spanish colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Convocation is open to all UCCS faculty, staff and students. A free barbecue on the University Center plaza will follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The 2010-11 academic year will officially begin at 4:30 pm. Aug. 18 with a convocation ceremony featuring Gene Abrams, professor, Mathematics, and a presidential teaching scholar. 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