selected media coverage
radio
|
Topic of interview |
Station/Show |
Initial Date Aired |
Link |
|
Pi Day, math
appreciation |
El Paso’s KTEP
(88.5 FM) “Focus on Campus”
with Louie Saenz |
March 15, 2019 |
|
|
2016
International Sun Conference on Teaching and Learning |
El Paso’s KTEP
(88.5 FM) “Focus on Campus”
with Louie Saenz |
Feb. 26, 2016 |
http://ktep.org/post/focus-campus-international-sun-conference-teaching-and-learning http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/SunConferenceInterviewKTEPFeb262016.mp3 |
|
campus carry,
gun violence, and my related song |
El Paso’s KTEP
(88.5 FM) “Focus on Campus”
with Louie Saenz |
Dec. 18, 2015 |
http://ktep.org/post/focus-campus-larry-lesser http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/12-18-15KTEPinterview.mp3 |
|
NSF-funded
research on statistics & fun/music |
El Paso’s KTEP
(88.5 FM) “100@100: Research for Our Next Century” with Dr. Keith Pannell |
May 29, 2014 |
|
|
Math &
Music/Poetry |
El Paso’s KTEP
(88.5 FM) “State of the Arts” with Mónica
Gómez |
April 13,
2013; Feb. 21, 2009 |
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/KTEPInterviewAiring4-13-13.mp3 http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/Feb2009KTEPinterview.mp3 |
|
Math &
Music |
Kingston,
Jamaica’s HOT 102 (101.9 FM) “Today with Beverley Anderson Manley” |
May 19, 2008 |
|
|
Surface Area of
Desert Life, Mark and Recapture, Desert Weather, Snakes, Pi Day |
El Paso’s KTEP
(88.5 FM) “Desert Diary” with Florence Schwein |
June 22, 2009; June
7, 2005; May 18, 2005; April 19, 2005; March 14, 2005, respectively |
|
|
lottery |
KTRH-AM
(Houston), WGST-AM (Atlanta); KFNC-FM
(Houston); KUT-FM (Austin), WOAI-AM (San Antonio), KHOW-AM (Denver) |
April
16, 2002; June
15, 2005; Dec.
17, 2013; October
19&23, 2018 |
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/ShaarKUT-FMinterviewDecember17,2013.mp3 |
|
algebra
education on hour-long talkradio call-in show |
“Math Medley”
with Pat Kenschaft on KFNX-AM (Phoenix), WALE-AM
(Providence), and renaissanceradio.com |
Sept. 23, 2000 |
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01277/cah-01277.html |
periodicals
|
topic |
representative
items |
|
2016 Piper Professor award |
5/2/16 El Paso Herald Post: http://elpasoheraldpost.com/utep-professor-mathematical-sciences-larry-lesser-ph-d-honored-14th-piper-award-recipient/ (with shorter 5/3/16 blurbs in El
Paso Inc. and
Rice
University dateline news) Also, the week
of 5/9/16 included UTEP’s extended video (on YouTube or Vimeo) and newsfeed writeup |
|
lottery |
3/30/12 El Paso Times: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/MegaMillionsEPTimes2012.pdf 8/28/93 Austin American-Statesman: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/AustinAmericanStatesman.pdf
|
|
math & music |
2016 interview
in the premier STEM songwriting blog: http://singaboutscience.org/wp/2016/02/18/stem-songster-interview-19-professor-lesser/
Summer 2015 UTEP College of Science newsletter: http://pub.lucidpress.com/cos_newsletter_summer_2015/#IgnL7vVPurK9
3/14/15 El Paso Times, also picked up by the Oklahoman: http://newsok.com/article/feed/811826; 3/31/02 Herald Sun [Australia’s largest paper]: http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/Australiaarticle.pdf
|
|
Children’s education |
issues in
2015-2016 of The Mini Page (a
weekly syndicated feature in 500+ newspapers with 20 million readers) on
topics of Mobius
strips, math
& music, and statistics
polls |
TV
|
Topic |
coverage |
|
International
Sun Conference on Teaching and Learning I chaired |
KFOX,
March 6, 2015; |
|
educating
about the lottery |
twice on
Austin ABC-affiliate KVUE-TV several El Paso
stations, including CBS-affiliate KDBC-TV,
ABC-affiliate KVIA-TV,
KFOX-TV,
and NBC-affiliate KTSM-TV the lead
“Dollars & Sense” segment of Cable
News Network (CNN) Headline News throughout the last weekend of August
1993 |
|
my
math-and-music edutainment |
guest lesson I
taught to El Paso middle schoolers Feb. 1, 2013 on the mathematics of
stringed instruments where KFOX-TV interviewed me and some students and aired
it on that evening’s news. One of my math
songs won a national “Pi Day of the Century” contest announced by the
National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) on 3/14/15,
which attracted TV coverage by El Paso stations (KDBC,
KVIA,
and KFOX),
a 2:38 video posted that day on UTEPMiners
Facebook, and the closing (and longest) story on that week’s UTEP Headlines Video Newscast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuaXz3sIcMc). Three other songs were winners in MoMath’s
fall 2015 math song contest, which resulted in being interviewed for KFOX (watch clip) and KDBC (watch clip) 12/2/15
evening news. |
|
Featured
appearances on 6 episodes of PBS children’s educational show “Blast Beyond” |
All 6 episodes are archived here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdfaHtJTO4LJZfSgu2Ztvn3aI6R8B1giR |
educational
online videos
|
Topic |
Associated Organization |
Link |
|
Use of video
in teaching |
Academic
Technologies, The University of Texas at El Paso |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA4JFCRtuas&feature=youtu.be (picked up by
UTEP’s news feed at: http://news.utep.edu/?p=28285) |
|
Exploring a
model of the statistical median |
Journal of Statistics Education, http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v22n3/pulley_loop_physical_model_of_median.html
|
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dDbWTPL0vE (also, see
associated webinar archived at https://www.causeweb.org/webinar/jse/2015-03/
) |
|
Math songs |
Virtual poetry
reading 8/16/2014 at the International Bridges conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcaL2PXuy7U&feature=youtu.be
Invited
11/19/15 performance at the National Museum of Mathematics |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezVdI1P0AqY
|
|
Statistics
songs |
Plenary
banquet performance at 2013 United States Conference on Teaching Statistics |
|
|
Interactive
lecturing with answer cards |
Center for
Excellence in Teaching and Learning(CETaL), The
University of Texas at El Paso |
http://cetal.utep.edu/index.php/teaching-toolkit/abcd
, then |
|
Statistics
education outreach about the lottery |
Hosted by the
American Statistical Association (http://www.amstat.org/youtube/)
and the Quantitative Literacy special interest group of the Mathematical
Association of America (http://sigmaa.maa.org/ql/contest2011.php) |
|
|
Gender equity |
TITLE IX
public service announcement sponsored by Frontera
Women’s Foundation, UTEP, and EPCC |