¡BIENVENIDOS! & WELCOME to the homepage* of
a Mathematical Sciences Dept. Professor in
the College of Science at The Univ. of Texas at El Paso in the UT System
*DISCLAIMER:
this webpage (and its subpages beginning http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/)
is an individual, unofficial webpage created by Dr. Lesser and should not be
assumed to reflect the opinions, positions, policies or procedures of The
University of Texas at El Paso; some additional and/or updated background is on
his personal website, https://larrylesser.com/
CONTACT INFO
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EMAIL (usually the best method); Note: if
emailing me from non-UTEP addresses, there is a small (<.1%) chance that
unpredictable email traffic patterns cause UTEP's IT security setting to quarantine
your email without telling you or me and then delete it 2 weeks later; thus,
in the unlikely event I do not respond to your email within a week, please
leave a heads up on my voicemail (915-747-6845) so I know to log into and
search the quarantine for your email. For professional UTEP-related email, please use Lesser’s
utep.edu address; if the email is of a personal nature, please use my gmail
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My
last name followed by @utep.edu |
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(office) PHONE (voicemail forwards to email if
I’m away from my desk |
(915) 747-6845 |
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(daytime) department’s FAX (it’s a shared device in a room I
don’t have a key for, so put my name on the coversheet and please give me a
heads up before you send it so I’ll know to look for it (email will be faster
than faxing) |
(915) 747-6502 |
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Physical OFFICE (my in-person hours may be less regular during semesters when all of
my teaching and office hours are online) |
room 213 (by 2nd
floor water fountain) of Bell Hall (on Wiggins Road, by north side of
Library) map |
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US MAIL
address (if what you are mailing is extremely
time sensitive, please contact me for an address that may be better to use) |
Larry Lesser Mathematical Sciences
Department 500 West University
Avenue El Paso, TX 79968 |
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for (UPS and FedEx) deliveries to my department office, which is room 124 on the
ground floor of Bell Hall (on Wiggins Road, near north side of Library) and
is generally open M-F 8-12 & 1-5; map) (see
above comment) |
Larry Lesser Mathematical Sciences
Department Bell Hall 124 500 West University Avenue El Paso, TX 79902 |
Browse his BACKGROUND, SCHEDULE,
& RESOURCE PAGES:
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outreach: Lottery; Pi Day; MATH &
MUSIC ; |
for students: Study Tips; Equity; Research
Resources; Statistics
& Math Ed; Advising; new K-12
Teachers; GEPCTM |
QUICK BIO:
Since 1988, Lesser’s teaching (in Colorado,
Georgia, and Texas) has been enhanced by experiences as a state agency
statistician, full-time high school math teacher, and university-wide teaching
center director. Since 2004, he’s been a
mathematics educator in the Mathematical Sciences Department at UTEP (an R1
university on the US-Mexico border), a full professor since 2011, and a UTEP
Distinguished Teaching Professor since 2019. He was interviewed
extensively about his career in the March 2020 Journal of Statistics
Education. His statistics/math education interests include language/culture/equity,
engagement,
teacher education, misconceptions, and intuition. His research/scholarship includes textbooks
and 120* peer-reviewed (mostly first-author) papers
and has led to the Faculty Award for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
(given at the 2012 International Sun Conference on Teaching and Learning),
service on 5 (inter)national research or editorial boards (e.g., a founding
editor of TEEM and has also
served three 3-year terms as an associate editor of JSE or the assistant editor of SERJ, the top two
journals in statistics education) and on elected/appointed offices/committees
in national organizations (e.g., NCTM, ASA, CAUSE),
and over a half-million dollars in external funding (e.g., 2012-16 and 2015-2020 NSF grants for which he
served as the PI at UTEP). Seeking to make statistics/mathematics more
accessible, meaningful, and engaging, his teaching innovations have led to textbook
co-authorship (e.g., COMAP math-for-liberal-arts text FAPP), invited plenary presentations
at regional/national conferences (MAA, USCOTS, CAUSE, NCTM, speaker series, etc.), radio/TV appearances, and recognitions
including the 2010
Distinguished Teaching of Mathematics Award from the MAA’s Southwestern Section,
a 2011 Regents’ Outstanding
Teaching Award from the University of Texas System (comprising 9
universities and 10,000+ faculty; based on multi-level reviews of 150-page
dossier), a 2016 Minnie
Stevens Piper Professor Award (given annually to only 10 professors out of
all 150+ 2- and 4-year colleges in Texas; UTEP had only 13 prior
winners since the award’s founding in 1958, and no other winners since 2012),
the 2021
Waller Distinguished Teaching Career Award, and a score of awards in recent
national education contests (e.g., NSF, MoMath, ASA, CAUSE, SIGMAA-QL). Also, his
passions of poetry
and songwriting
have yielded 150+ published STEM-related poems/songs.
*over 550, if
including shorter/internally-reviewed curriculum features, papers in edited
conference proceedings, letters to the editor, book reviews, archived webinars,
discipline-related poems/lyrics, videos, etc.
