Backgrounds include: UTEP Professor, statistics/math education researcher, journal editor, teaching awards winner, teaching center director, PI (NSF grants), textbook author, keynote speaker, state agency statistician, high school teacher, award-winning songwriter.

• Ph D in Mathematics Education, The University of Texas at Austin (1994)
• MS in Statistics, The University of Texas at Austin (1989)
• BA in Mathematics; Mathematical Sciences (double major), Rice University (1986)

• Creative Activities Outside of Teaching - Poetry + Mathematics = Mathematical Poetry? (2017-09-13). Dept. of Creative Writing, Dept. of Mathematical Science, UTEP Interdisciplinary Research Program. El Paso, TX, USA. Lawrence Lesser.
• Creative Activities Outside of Teaching - performed two songs (including my original song "Break") with ensemble at Perspectives in Counterpoint concert (2018-02-03). UTEP Dept. of Music, UTEP Humanities, UTEP College of Liberal Arts, UTEP Religious Studies, UTEP Women's and Gender Studies, El Paso Holocaust Museum . El Paso, TX, USA. Lawrence Lesser.

• Redesigning a statistics literacy course to help prepare pre-service teachers to teach (statistics to) English language learners Palgrave Macmillan (2020), Lawrence M. Lesser.
• Cardinality Texas Mathematics Teacher 66 2 (2020), Lawrence M. Lesser.
• Statistical Edutainment: Correlation recreation Teaching Statistics 42 3 (2020), Dennis Pearl, Lawrence M. Lesser.
• A Modest Proposal The Mathematical Intelligencer 42 3 (2020), Gizem Karaali, Lawrence M. Lesser.
• Statistical Edutainment that Counts Teaching Statistics 42 2 (2020), Dennis Pearl, Lawrence M. Lesser.

• A Discussion with Larry Lesser on DEI [Diversity, Equity, Inclusion] for Statistics Education (2020), Volume virtual (Zoom), Lawrence M. Lesser.
• interview (and reading) about my STEM poetry, etc. (2020), Lawrence M. Lesser.
• (2020), Lawrence M. Lesser, Penelope P. Espinoza, Ann C. Gates, Peter Golding, Guillermina Nunez-Mchiri, Ivonne Santiago, Charlotte Vines, , , .
• Using Educational Fun Items to Increase Student Learning and Engagement (2020), Volume online, Lawrence M. Lesser, Dennis K. Pearl .
• Bayesian Network Analysis of Log File Data from Students Using SMILES Interactive Statistics Songs (2020), Volume (virtual), Dennis Pearl, Matthew Beckman, Neil Hatfield, Yiyun Gong, Sean Klavans, Lawrence M. Lesser.

• Cultivating Authentic Discourse for the 2020 Engineer
• Fostering Middle Grades Teachers Algebraic Thinking
• Mathematics Science Partnership
• Middle School Student Achievement Project: Evidence-based professional development using item analysis of TAKS data to improve student achievement in mathmematics
• Project ACE: ACtion for Equity
• Project LEAP-UP: Learning, Encouraging, And Planning to Uplift Performance
• SABEMAS: Supporting A Better Education in Math And Science
• Strengthening Middle Grades Teachers' Quantitative Reasoning as Classroom Researchers
• Teachers for a New Era
• (REU supplement for) Project SMILES: Student-Made Interactive Learning with Educational Songs for Introductory Statistics(supplement proposal written by SMILES PIs, with $ administered through Penn State for simplicity; it supported some of our research)
• (VOICES supplement for) Project SMILES: Student-Made Interactive Learning with Educational Songs for Introductory Statistics(supplement proposal written by all 3 SMILES PIs, with $ administered through Penn State for simplicity; it supported some of my research travel)
• MATH:EAGER:Collaborative Research: SMILES (Student-Made Interactive Learning with Educational Songs) for Introductory Statistics [DUE]
• Project SMILES: Student-Made Interactive Learning with Educational Songs for introductory statistics
• Research on Contextualizing K-12 Mathematics Education within the Real World Context of Musical Composition and Musical Instrument Design (Interdisciplinary Research grant round 3, level 2)
• Project UPLIFT: Universally Portable Learning Increased by Fun Teaching [TUES phase 1; only 12% of proposals in this category were funded]