Our Team
SMILES PIs
- Dennis Pearl, The Pennsylvania State University
- Larry Lesser, The University of Texas at El Paso
- John Weber, Perimeter College at Georgia State University
Other Personnel
- Dominic Dousa, The University of Texas at El Paso (composition)
- Stephen Haddad, The University of Texas at El Paso (recordings)
- Bob Carey, The Pennsylvania State University (programming)
Engineering and Editing Assistant
- Joshua Lintz, UTEP Multidisciplinary Studies Major
Vocalists
- Valeria Parada, UTEP Commercial Music Major
- Mary Haddad, UTEP Master's Graduate in Vocal Performance
- Mariana Sandoval, UTEP Vocal Performance Major
Songwriters
| Writer | Backgrounds in music and in statistics/STEM |
|---|---|
|
Amy Adler (Austin, TX) |
Songwriter, cantorial soloist, music teacher, CPA, Certified Fraud Examiner |
| Greg Crowther (Seattle, WA) | Biology lecturer at Everett Community College, research and outreach includes songs in STEM, founder and curator (since 2004) of database (singaboutscience.org) of 7000+ STEM songs |
| Dominic Dousa (El Paso, TX) | Classical music theory and composition faculty at UTEP; (piano) accompanist and chamber musician; MS and college teaching experience in statistics |
| Monty Harper (Stillwater, OK) | Award-winning full-time touring performer/writer of educational science songs; MS in mathematics |
| Larry Lesser (El Paso, TX) | Award-winning statistics education professor at UTEP; award-winning songwriter; published about 100 STEM/education lyrics and a dozen papers on using music in statistics/math courses |
| Tom Toce (New York City, NY) | Theater/cabaret songwriter with album cuts and ASCAP awards; senior actuarial adviser at Ernst & Young; Fellow of Casualty Actuarial Society |
SMILES Advisory Board & Evaluator
| Member (affiliation) | Backgrounds |
|---|---|
| Kim Bennett (Associate Professor of Mathematics, Perimeter College at Georgia State University) | Teaches introductory statistics in an online environment. |
| Monica Dabos (Statistics Specialist at California State University, Channel Islands) | Co-PI of the Teaching a New Generation of Statistics Educators Stat Ed (TANGO Stat Ed) project building a foundation for statistics education reform among the nation’s community colleges. |
| Louis J. Gross (Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics, University of Tennessee at Knoxville) | Director of the Institute for Environmental Modeling, Director of National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), and a national leader in undergraduate biology education. |
| Ellen Gundlach (Managing Director of The Data Mine. Purdue University) | Associate Editor of Journal of Statistics Education, coordinated the large statistical concepts course at Purdue (online and classroom-based), former Associate Editor for the CAUSEweb digital library and former host of the monthly CAUSE Teaching and Learning webinar series, currently pursuing a Masters of Public Health, and has received numerous awards for her teaching. |
| Michael Posner (Associate Professor of Statistics, Villanova University) | Founding Director of the Center for Statistics Education at Villanova; co-PI of the NSF-funded TANGO Stat Ed project; Former Associate Director for Professional Development for CAUSE; Executive Committee of the Section on Statistical Education for American Statistical Association, and ASA Fellow. |
| Evaluator: Jennifer J. Kaplan (Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Middle Tennessee State University) |
A widely-published award-winning statistics education researcher, the Director of the Mathematics and Science Education PhD program at Middle Tennessee State University, and the regular issues Editor of Statistics Education Research Journal; also the independent evaluator on our NSF-funded Project UPLIFT. |
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