{"id":88490,"date":"2020-05-12T08:09:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T12:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=88490"},"modified":"2020-05-14T13:31:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T17:31:49","slug":"robert-j-kegerreis-distinguished-professor-of-teaching-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/05\/12\/robert-j-kegerreis-distinguished-professor-of-teaching-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert J. Kegerreis Distinguished Professor of Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_88506\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/05\/12\/robert-j-kegerreis-distinguished-professor-of-teaching-6\/12110-cheryl-spillman-cecs-staff-8-29-13-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88506\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88506\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88506\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2020\/05\/12110_668-Raymer-Michael-8-13-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-88506\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Raymer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Michael Raymer received the 2018\u201319 Robert J. Kegerreis Distinguished Professor of Teaching Award. Raymer serves as professor of computer science and associate chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering-computer-science.wright.edu\/computer-science-and-engineering\">Department of Computer Science and Engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Raymer\u2019s achievements in research are nationally known and acclaimed. He led a team that received funding from the National Science Foundation for the nation\u2019s first NSF-supported undergraduate program in bioinformatics. He has also written numerous journal and conference articles that have been cited thousands of times.<\/p>\n<p>While Raymer\u2019s scholarly achievements are worth recognition alone, it\u2019s his passion for teaching and passing on his knowledge to others that makes him stand out. His student feedback evaluations are consistently among the highest in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Raymer\u2019s students praise the way he conducts his lectures, the quality of his course materials and his genuine care for their success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis student evaluations are perhaps the most positive among the entire faculty,\u201d said one of his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Raymer\u2019s passion for teaching has impacted the lives of countless students, and his ability to translate knowledge to others has inspired the careers of many young men and women in an ever-growing field.<\/p>\n<p>Raymer started his academic career at Colorado State University, where he received his B.S. in computer science. He then received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science at Michigan State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Raymer\u2019s achievements in research are nationally known and acclaimed. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2020\/05\/12\/robert-j-kegerreis-distinguished-professor-of-teaching-6\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":88502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,724,4267,743,2023,711,725,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-awards","category-computer-science-and-engineering","category-engineering-computer-science","category-faculty","category-faculty-staff","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","series-faculty-awards-for-excellence-2018-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88490"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88879,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88490\/revisions\/88879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}