BLAKE BOURSAW
Office: UNM HSC Nursing & Pharmacy 237, (505) 272-6061, bboursaw@salud.unm.edu
EDUCATION
1998-now
University of Minnesota, Department of Mathematics
PhD Thesis Title: “Ergodic Theory and Semi-Convergence Groups”
Advisor: Scot Adams
M.S. in Mathematics awarded 2009
1994-1998
Michigan Technological University
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics
SELECT EMPLOYMENT
2012-now
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, College of Nursing
Instructor
2008-2012
University of New Mexico, RWJF Center for Health Policy
Statistician
2007-2008
University of New Mexico, RWJF Center for Health Policy
Mathematics/Statistics Tutor for select Native & Hispanic doctoral students
2004-2006
Augsburg College, Department of Mathematics
Instructor of Mathematics
1998-2004
University of Minnesota, Department of Mathematics
Teaching Assistant and Teaching Specialist
2000-2003
University of Minnesota, College of Biological Sciences
Mathematics Tutor/Mentor for select students of color
HONORS/ AWARDS
2012
Nominee, S.T.A.R.S. (Special Thank-you And Recognition from Students) Award
American Indian Student Services, University of New Mexico
2010
Nominee, UNM Student Service Award
Division of Student Affairs, University of New Mexico
2007
Teacher of the Year
Albuquerque Kaplan Center
2002
Citation for Excellence in Teaching
Department of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
1998
Bridge Builder Award
Presidential Commission on Diversity, Michigan Technological University
PUBLICATIONS
C. Iriart, A. Handal, B. Boursaw, and G. Rodrigues, “Chronic Malnutrition Among Overweight Hispanic
Children: Understanding Health Disparities,” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, (December
2011), 13 (6), pg. 1069-1075.
K. Heuvers, D. Moak, and B. Boursaw, “The functional equation of the square root spiral,” in T.
Rassias, editor, Functional Equations and Inequalities, 111-117, Mathematics and Its Applications, 518,
Kluwer Academic, 2000.
SELECT WORKS IN PROGRESS
Accepted for publication:
M. Vélez, C. Lyons, and B. Boursaw, “Neighborhood Housing Investments and Violent Crime in Seattle,
1981-2007,” Criminology, probable publication date: November 2012.
To be submitted Fall 2012:
L. Cacari Stone, B. Boursaw, S. Bettez, T. Marley, and H. Waitzkin, “Variations in Health Care Access
among Counties in the United States: Implications for Health Reform,” Journal of Health Care for the
Poor and Underserved. Submitted previously to AJPH.
C. Iriart, A. Handal, B. Boursaw, and G. Rodrigues, “Obesity and malnutrition among Latino children in
the United States: double burden on health inequities,” Journal TBD. Submitted previously to
Epidemiology.
L. Cacari Stone, B. Boursaw, S. Bettez, and M. Alegria, “Understanding Gender, Immigration, Place,
Social Context, and Substance Use Disorders: Analysis of the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology
Studies (CPES),” Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
To be submitted Spring 2013:
J. Tevie, TBD others, and B. Boursaw, “Modeling the Impact of Animal Antibiotic Use on the Evolution
of Antibiotic Resistance in Humans,” TBD Journal in Economics.
T. Parker, M. Maviglia, and B. Boursaw, Topic: Structural Equation Modeling and the Seneca Nation
Historical Trauma and Health Study, TBD Journal.
SELECT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
CURRENT MEMBER
Provost Analytic Committee, University of New Mexico.
INVITED PRESENTER Hispanic-Serving Health Professions Schools (HSHPS) Summer Lecture Series.
Webinar on quantitative methodologies, co-presentation with Dr. Gabriel Sanchez. July 2012.
GUEST INSTRUCTOR AEA (American Economic Association) Summer Training and Minority
Fellowships Program. Foundation week GRE, mathematics, and statistical programming. June 2012.
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
Feb. 2012
Structural Equation Modeling in Action: Practice & Theory with Tassy Parker, Yajaira
Peña-Esparza, and Patricia Rodrigues. RWJF Center for Health Policy at UNM
Research and Policy Seminar.
Feb. 2009
Patterns of Substance Use Disorders among Latino, Black Caribbean, and Asian
Immigrant Women: Results from the CPES with Lisa Cacari-Stone. Cambridge Center
for Multicultural Mental Health.
Mar. 2006
Works in Progress: Transforming Hyperbolicity & Pursuing Mathematical Dreams.
CSEMS Seminar, Augsburg College.
Oct. 2005
The Noble Art of Problem-Solving. Augsburg Mathematics Colloquium.
Mar. 2005
Circling the Triangle. Part of Three Slices of Pi with Matt Haines and Tracy Bibelnieks, a
pre-Pi Day special Augsburg Mathematics Colloquium.
Jan. 2004
Lie Groups which cannot act like non-elementary convergence groups, a preliminary
report. AMS Contributed Paper Session on Group Theory.
Oct. 2003
Indecomposability of Equivalence Relations Generated by Nonelementary Convergence
Groups. U of MN Differential Geometry seminar.
June 2003
Commensurator Super-rigidity for Convergence Group Actions. U of MN Differential
Geometry seminar.
Oct. 2001
Decisions! Decisions! Dehn presentations, isoperimetric inequalities, and "hyperbolic"
groups. U of MN Graduate Student “ATAC” seminar.’
SELECT CONFERENCES
Oct. 2010
Mentoring Conference, UNM Mentoring Institute. Albuquerque, NM.
Feb. 2009
NLAAS II Meeting, Cambridge Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research.
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Nov. 2005
AMATYC (American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges) Conference. San
Diego, California.
Oct. 2003
Mini-conference and Workshop on Concentration Phenomenon, Transformation Groups,
and Ramsey Theory. University of Ottawa. Travel grant courtesy of the Fields Institute.
Dec. 2001
Winter 2001 Wasatch Topology Conference. Park City, Utah. Travel grant courtesy of
the U of MN Department of Mathematics.