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.

• Mathematics and Poetry: Arts of the Heart Springer (2021), Gizem Karaali, Lawrence M. Lesser.
• Is memorization the name of the game? Undergraduates’ perceptions of the usefulness of physiology songs Advances in Physiology Education 44 1 (2020), Gregory J. Crowther, Jason Wessels, Lawrence M. Lesser, Jennifer L. Breckler.
• Statistical Edutainment with Confidence Teaching Statistics 42 1 (2020), Dennis Pearl, Lawrence M. Lesser.
• Singalong for statistics Significance 17 1 (2020), Lawrence M. Lesser.
• Statistical Poetry Journal of Humanistic Mathematics 10 1 (2020), Lawrence M. Lesser.

• A Reading of Poetry with Mathematics (organizers) (2020), Volume United States, Gizem Karaali, Lawrence M. Lesser, Douglas Norton.
• presentation of four mathematical poems (2020), Volume United States, Lawrence M. Lesser.
• Is memorization the name of the game? Undergraduates' perceptions of the usefulness of physiology songs (2019), Jason Wessels, Jennifer Breckler, Lawrence M. Lesser, Greg Crowther.
• Just add water? A conversation about resources to support songs (2019), Lawrence M. Lesser, Greg Crowther.
• Educational fun at your fingertips (2019), Volume Denver, CO, Dennis Pearl, Lawrence M. Lesser, John Weber.

• 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]