PODCAST
math-and-religion, Sacred Science podcast (Episode 37), November 9, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2CSr83Qh6k
RADIO
| Topic of interview | Station/Show | Initial Date Aired | Link |
| Pi Day, math appreciation;
math-and-religion speaker series |
Louie Saenz of El Paso’s KTEP (88.5 FM) “Focus on Campus”,
KTEP “The Weekend“; KVIA-TV |
March 15, 2019;
March 6, 2021 March 11, 2021 |
https://www.ktep.org/post/focus-campus-larry-lesser-1 |
| 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 |
| gun violence | El Paso’s KTEP (88.5 FM) “Focus on Campus” with Louie Saenz | Dec. 18, 2015 & Feb. 23, 2018;
Aug. 28, 2019 |
http://ktep.org/post/focus-campus-larry-lesser
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/12-18-15KTEPinterview.mp3
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| 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 | http://ktep.org/programs/100-100-research-our-next-century |
| Math & Music/Poetry | El Paso’s KTEP (88.5 FM) “State of the Arts” with Mónica Gómez | April 13, 2013; Feb. 21, 2009
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https://larrylesser.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/KTEPInterviewAiring4-13-13.mp3
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/Feb2009KTEPinterview.mp3 https://larrylesser.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Feb2009KTEPinterview.mp3 |
| Math & Music | Kingston, Jamaica’s HOT 102 (101.9 FM) “Today with [former first lady of Jamaica] Beverley Anderson Manley” | May 19, 2008 (live) | http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/Jamaica.html
https://larrylesser.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Jamaica2008Interview.mp3 |
| 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 | http://museum2.utep.edu/archive/math/indexmath.htm
snakes and desert weather are sample shows I wrote the script for |
| 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 Dec. 4, 2020 Jan. 20, 2021 July 28, 2022 |
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/ShaarKUT-FMinterviewDecember17,2013.mp3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9N6hYD6v9E Dec. 4, 2020 appearance on Ross Kaminsky Show https://khow.iheart.com/featured/ross-kaminsky/content/2021-01-20-larry-lesser-which-big-lottery-is-better-bet-should-i-buy-just-1-ticket/; Jan 2021 appearance on Ross Kaminsky Show |
| 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
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PERIODICALS
| topic | representative items |
| overall academic career | for major interview in Journal of Statistics Education: 7/15/2020 El Paso Herald Post
for winning Minnie Stevens 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 sustained research on language in statistics, fall 2016 UTEP Magazine |
| lottery | 3/30/12 El Paso Times: https://larrylesser.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/MegaMillionsEPTimes2012.pdf
8/28/93 Austin American-Statesman: https://larrylesser.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/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]: https://larrylesser.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/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
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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 |
| Exploring a model of the statistical median | Journal of Statistics Education, www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dDbWTPL0vE or 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
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| Statistics songs | Plenary banquet performance at 2013 United States Conference on Teaching Statistics | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGw6AtRWMA4 |
| Interactive lecturing with answer cards; formative feedback | teaching center for The University of Texas at El Paso | https://www.utep.edu/faculty-development/Teaching-and-Learning/Additional-Tools-and-Resources/teaching-toolkit/Interactive-Lecturing-With-Answer-Cards.html |
| 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) | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxGRghzr5zo |
| Gender equity | TITLE IX public service announcement sponsored by Frontera Women’s Foundation, UTEP, and EPCC | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAmEOtvq2I8 |