New Century College

 

Michael R. Gabel

Dr. Michael R. Gabel is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Integrative Studies in George Mason University’s New Century College. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Brandeis University.

Professor Gabel was a member of the faculty group that created GMU's award-winning interdisciplinary PAGE (Plan for Alternative General Education) Program and is currently teaching in the University's innovative New Century College. He has been Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Chair of the CAS Committee on Innovative Education, Chair of the University-wide Academic Computing Advisory Committee, Chair of the Faculty Senate Standing Committee on Effective Teaching, Co-Chair of the President's Project Team on Learning Initiatives, and Director of the University's Instructional Development Office. He was named a 1989-90 ACE Fellow and a 2008-2009 SENCER Leadership Fellow. He is currently a co-principal investigator of Keck/PKAL grant on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Learning. He has given numerous lectures and presentations on Mathematics, General Education, and the Applications of Technology to Teaching. He is a member of the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars and is a 2002 recipient of a GMU Teaching Excellence Award as well as the 2002 David J. King Faculty Teaching Award for "significant, long-term contributions to the overall educational excellence of the university."

In addition to a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses in the Mathematics Department, he has taught a Quantitative Problem Solving course in the Honors Program, Honor's Calculus, and the learning communities Community of Learners, The Natural World, Mathematics and Culture, Conservation Studies, and The Nature of Mathematics in New Century College.

His interests include computers and the "natural world." He has also traveled extensively in West, North, Southern, and East Africa as well as in Europe, Central/South America, India, the Himalayas and, particularly, Southeast Asia.

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COURSES TAUGHT

• NCLC 110 Community of Learners
• NCLC 120 The Natural World
• NCLC 230 Mathematics and Culture
• NCLC 333 The Nature of Mathematics
• NCLC 401 Conservation Biology
• MATH 108 Business Calculus
• MATH 110 Introduction to Probability and Statistics
• MATH 113 Calculus I
• MATH 203 Matrix Algebra
• MATH 301 Number Theory
• MATH 322 Linear Algebra

DEGREES

• Ph.D. Mathematics, Brandeis University
• B.S. Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS/ASSOCIATIONS

• Mathematical Association of America
  

RECENT AWARDS

• 2008-2009 SENCER Leadership Fellow
• 2002 GMU Teaching Excellence Award
• 2002 David J. King Faculty Teaching Award
  

PREVIOUS GMU ACTIVITIES

• PAGE Faculty, PAGE Course Leader
• Faculty Senate: secretary; member: Academic Policies committee
• Chair, CAS Innovative Liberal Education Committee
• Chair, University Committee on Effective Teaching
• Co-Chair, Learning Initiatives Project Team
• Chair, Academic Computing Advisory Committee
• Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
• Director, Instructional Development Office
  

WORK EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO GMU

• Graduate Teaching Assistant: Brandeis University
• Purdue University: Assistant Professor of Mathematics