• NIMBioS Announces New Songwriter-in-Residence: Baba Brinkman (nimbios.org). “At UT, [Brinkman] will perform an excerpt from his Rap Guide to Evolution, which recently finished an extended off-Broadway run.”
• Music helps students get handle on fractions (sfgate.com). “Third-grade students at a San Bruno elementary school who learned fractions through music scored significantly higher on standardized tests than their peers, said San Francisco State researchers experimenting with ways to teach math more effectively.”
• BYU Mathletes Create Rap Music Video For Pi-Day (huffingtonpost.com). “BYU recently made a ‘Pi Day music video’ showing screaming fans and groupies cheering on their Mathletes. In the song, a chorus of women sing ‘The BYU Mathletes are coming after ya / When they walk by don’t do the wave do the parabola.’”