Gross joined the faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in August 1979, holding the rank of Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering.
Gross has been active in the development of analytical methods for shoring loads and slab capacity for multistory concrete construction and in research into the behavior of steel braced frame connections.
Gross conducted an analytical investigation of the Cypress Viaduct elevated highway structure that failed in the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 1989, and research into the failure of steel beam-to-column connections in the January, 1994 Northridge earthquake.
JohnGross lived two years near the Landing before moving to the place that was nearer Gunters Mountain and that was to bear his name in after years.
JOHNGROSS died in 1821 and is buried in an unmarked grave in NEAL FIELD near Mink Creek.
JOHNGROSS, son of JACOB GROSS, was born in Pennsylvania, moved to East Tennessee when a small boy, was reared in Claybourne county, Tennessee (Claiborne), was married to Eva Marie Little (who was of German descent - Ofa Marie in German).