The third annual VOICES (Virtual Ongoing Interdisciplinary Collaborations on Educating with Song; https://www.causeweb.org/voices/) conference will be held online September 22-23, 2019. Chaired by Tiffany Getty, this conference will explore the use of song to teach STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) at the postsecondary (or secondary) level

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Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Volume 9 | Issue 2 July 2019 Third VOICES Conference on Teaching STEM with Music, September 22-23, 2019 Lawrence M. Lesser The University of Texas at El Paso Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm  Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, Engineering Commons, Life Sciences Commons, and the Mathematics Commons Recommended Citation Lesser, L. M. "Third VOICES Conference on Teaching STEM with Music, September 22-23, 2019," Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 9 Issue 2 (July 2019), pages 372-373. DOI: 10.5642/jhummath.201902.32 . Available at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol9/iss2/32 ©2019 by the authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. JHM is an open access bi-annual journal sponsored by the Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences and published by the Claremont Colleges Library | ISSN 2159-8118 | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/ The editorial staff of JHM works hard to make sure the scholarship disseminated in JHM is accurate and upholds professional ethical guidelines. However the views and opinions expressed in each published manuscript belong exclusively to the individual contributor(s). The publisher and the editors do not endorse or accept responsibility for them. See https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/policies.html for more information. Third Annual VOICES ConferenceOn Teaching STEM with MusicSeptember 22-23, 2019Lawrence M. LesserDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, USALesser@utep.eduThe third annual VOICES (Virtual Ongoing Interdisciplinary Collaborations on Ed-ucating with Song) conference will be held September 22-23, 2019, with the Sundayportion especially targeting those whose teaching schedule precludes attendance on aweekday. This first-of-its-kind, online-only conference explores the use of music toteach STEM content at the college or high school level and will include many reviewedinteractive sessions, videoposters, and discussions of interest to both practitioners andresearchers.The use of song or songwriting can be a powerful strategy for learning content formany reasons, such as its community-building appeal to emotion and its capacityto synthesize and present information in concise memorable form (see, for exam-ple, http://singaboutscience.org/wp/educating/research/ and https://www.causeweb.org/voices/resources/teaching). The third annual VOICES (VirtualOngoing Interdisciplinary Collaborations on Educating with Song) conference is anideal place to join the conversation!This first-of-its-kind, online-only conference explores the use of music to teach STEMcontent at the college or high school level and will include many reviewed interac-tive sessions, videoposters, and discussions of interest to both practitioners and re-searchers. Examples of topics from past conferences include research/theory, songparodies, music videos, informal learning and outreach, STEM songwriting, and stu-dent songwriting. As was the case with previous VOICES conferences, it is expectedthat almost all presentations will apply to all STEM disciplines (and beyond), andparticipants have come from about half the states of the US as well as from Canada,the United Kingdom, and The Netherlands, spanning all major STEM fields, as wellas Education, English, Media & Information, and Performing Arts.Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Volume 9 Number 2 (July 2019)Chaired by Tiffany Getty (tiffany.getty@wilkes.edu), this year’s conference in-cludes a keynote presentation by science hip-hop educator Dr. Edmund Adjapong,Director of the Science Genius Program (http://hiphoped.com/science-genius/).Dr. Adjapong is an assistant professor in the Educational Studies Department at Se-ton Hall University. He is also a faculty fellow at The Institute for Urban andMulticultural Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and author of#HipHopEd: The Compilation on Hip-Hop Education Volume 1 [2]. Dr. Adjapongis a former middle school science educator at a New York City public school in TheBronx. He is the director of the Science Genius Program, a program that engagesurban students in the sciences through Hip-Hop, and the director of The ScienceGenius Academy, a program that encourages and prepares students to pursue STEMcareers while providing mentoring and support. Dr. Adjapong has appeared on me-dia outlets such as Hot 97’s radio station and is a contributing writer for HuffingtonPost and The Good Men Project, where he writes about issues of race, diversity,social justice and education.Presentations will be live-streamed from the conference websitehttps://www.causeweb.org/voicesand then archived for future access. Online registrations to attend are open throughSeptember 19 at https://www.CAUSEweb.org/voices/2019/register for only $10(which can be waived in case of financial need). For full consideration, a presentationproposal should be submitted by July 24 at https://www.CAUSEweb.org/voices/2019/proposals, but later submissions may be considered if space and time allow.Those considering attending or presenting may draw inspiration by browsing the25+ hours’ worth of archived sessions from the 2017 and 2018 conferences at https://www.CAUSEweb.org/voices.As mentioned in [1], VOICES endeavors are supported by a current National ScienceFoundation grant (Project SMILES: Student-Made Interactive Learning with Ed-ucational Songs in Introductory Statistics, https://www.CAUSEweb.org/smiles/)whose PIs are Lawrence Lesser (The University of Texas at El Paso), Dennis Pearl(Penn State), and John Weber (Perimeter College at Georgia State University).References[1] Crowther, G. J. “VOICES: Conference on Teaching STEM with Music, September 27-28, 2017”,Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 7 Issue 2 (July 2017), pages 439–440. Available athttps://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol7/iss2/33, last accessed on July 11, 2019.[2] Emdin, C., and E. Adjapong, #HipHopEd: The Compilation on Hip-Hop Education – Volume1: Hip-Hop as Education, Philosophy, and Practice, Brill Sense, Boston, 2018.373

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Journal of Humanistic Mathematics 
Volume 9 | Issue 2 July 2019 
Third VOICES Conference on Teaching STEM with Music, 
September 22-23, 2019 
Lawrence M. Lesser 
The University of Texas at El Paso 
Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm 
 Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons, Engineering Commons, Life Sciences Commons, and the 
Mathematics Commons 
Recommended Citation 
Lesser, L. M. "Third VOICES Conference on Teaching STEM with Music, September 22-23, 2019," Journal 
of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 9 Issue 2 (July 2019), pages 372-373. DOI: 10.5642/
jhummath.201902.32 . Available at: https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol9/iss2/32 
©2019 by the authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. 
JHM is an open access bi-annual journal sponsored by the Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences and 
published by the Claremont Colleges Library | ISSN 2159-8118 | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/ 
The editorial staff of JHM works hard to make sure the scholarship disseminated in JHM is accurate and upholds 
professional ethical guidelines. However the views and opinions expressed in each published manuscript belong 
exclusively to the individual contributor(s). The publisher and the editors do not endorse or accept responsibility for 
them. See https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/policies.html for more information. 
Third Annual VOICES Conference
On Teaching STEM with Music
September 22-23, 2019
Lawrence M. Lesser
Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Lesser@utep.edu
The third annual VOICES (Virtual Ongoing Interdisciplinary Collaborations on Ed-
ucating with Song) conference will be held September 22-23, 2019, with the Sunday
portion especially targeting those whose teaching schedule precludes attendance on a
weekday. This first-of-its-kind, online-only conference explores the use of music to
teach STEM content at the college or high school level and will include many reviewed
interactive sessions, videoposters, and discussions of interest to both practitioners and
researchers.
The use of song or songwriting can be a powerful strategy for learning content for
many reasons, such as its community-building appeal to emotion and its capacity
to synthesize and present information in concise memorable form (see, for exam-
ple, http://singaboutscience.org/wp/educating/research/ and https://www.
causeweb.org/voices/resources/teaching). The third annual VOICES (Virtual
Ongoing Interdisciplinary Collaborations on Educating with Song) conference is an
ideal place to join the conversation!
This first-of-its-kind, online-only conference explores the use of music to teach STEM
content at the college or high school level and will include many reviewed interac-
tive sessions, videoposters, and discussions of interest to both practitioners and re-
searchers. Examples of topics from past conferences include research/theory, song
parodies, music videos, informal learning and outreach, STEM songwriting, and stu-
dent songwriting. As was the case with previous VOICES conferences, it is expected
that almost all presentations will apply to all STEM disciplines (and beyond), and
participants have come from about half the states of the US as well as from Canada,
the United Kingdom, and The Netherlands, spanning all major STEM fields, as well
as Education, English, Media & Information, and Performing Arts.
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Volume 9 Number 2 (July 2019)
Chaired by Tiffany Getty (tiffany.getty@wilkes.edu), this year’s conference in-
cludes a keynote presentation by science hip-hop educator Dr. Edmund Adjapong,
Director of the Science Genius Program (http://hiphoped.com/science-genius/).
Dr. Adjapong is an assistant professor in the Educational Studies Department at Se-
ton Hall University. He is also a faculty fellow at The Institute for Urban and
Multicultural Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and author of
#HipHopEd: The Compilation on Hip-Hop Education Volume 1 [2]. Dr. Adjapong
is a former middle school science educator at a New York City public school in The
Bronx. He is the director of the Science Genius Program, a program that engages
urban students in the sciences through Hip-Hop, and the director of The Science
Genius Academy, a program that encourages and prepares students to pursue STEM
careers while providing mentoring and support. Dr. Adjapong has appeared on me-
dia outlets such as Hot 97’s radio station and is a contributing writer for Huffington
Post and The Good Men Project, where he writes about issues of race, diversity,
social justice and education.
Presentations will be live-streamed from the conference website
https://www.causeweb.org/voices
and then archived for future access. Online registrations to attend are open through
September 19 at https://www.CAUSEweb.org/voices/2019/register for only $10
(which can be waived in case of financial need). For full consideration, a presentation
proposal should be submitted by July 24 at https://www.CAUSEweb.org/voices/
2019/proposals, but later submissions may be considered if space and time allow.
Those considering attending or presenting may draw inspiration by browsing the
25+ hours’ worth of archived sessions from the 2017 and 2018 conferences at https:
//www.CAUSEweb.org/voices.
As mentioned in [1], VOICES endeavors are supported by a current National Science
Foundation grant (Project SMILES: Student-Made Interactive Learning with Ed-
ucational Songs in Introductory Statistics, https://www.CAUSEweb.org/smiles/)
whose PIs are Lawrence Lesser (The University of Texas at El Paso), Dennis Pearl
(Penn State), and John Weber (Perimeter College at Georgia State University).
References
[1] Crowther, G. J. “VOICES: Conference on Teaching STEM with Music, September 27-28, 2017”,
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 7 Issue 2 (July 2017), pages 439–440. Available at
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol7/iss2/33, last accessed on July 11, 2019.
[2] Emdin, C., and E. Adjapong, #HipHopEd: The Compilation on Hip-Hop Education – Volume
1: Hip-Hop as Education, Philosophy, and Practice, Brill Sense, Boston, 2018.
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