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Media Exposure On Student Work: Spotlight On Undergraduate Research, Dominic Klyve
Media Exposure On Student Work: Spotlight On Undergraduate Research, Dominic Klyve
Mathematics Faculty Scholarship
This paper describes efforts by the author to engage and motivate students in undergraduate research by giving them a large audience and engaging the media in disseminating their work. I provide an introduction to public relations from the point of view of a mathematics professor, and describe some lessons I’ve learned in my own attempts to engage newsprint, radio, and television sources in stories about undergraduate research in mathematics. After describing some partially successful early attempts, the paper discusses a recent event in which undergraduate research in mathematics became, briefly, a “hot news item” in Central Washington. The paper concludes …