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Blair Sterba-Boatwright, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics;
Interim Chair of Mathematics and Statistics
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Education
- M.S. Statistics, Texas A&M University, completion expected Dec. 2006
- Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 1987
- B.A., Mathematics, Swarthmore College, 1980
Awards
Presidential Excellence Award, St. Edward’s University, Spring, 1989.
Publications
Books:
Sterba-Boatwright, Blair. Modeling for the Millions. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2004.
Articles:
Sadovski, Zimmer, Steidley, Sterba-Boatwright, Tissot, "Coastal and Estuarine Water Levels as a
Random Signal", in Programa y Resumenes de XV Simposio Internacional de Metodes Matematicos
Aplicados a las Ciencias, Universidad de Costa Rica, accepted, April, 2006.
Tarazaga, Sterba-Boatwright, and Wijewardena, “Euclidean Distance Matrices: Special Subsets,
Systems of Coordinates and Multibalanced Matrices”, accepted, August 2006.
Heinz, Sterba-Boatwright, “Understanding When and Why to Arrange Four Quantities into a Proportion”,
Mathematics Teacher, accepted August 2006.
Sterba-Boatwright, "The Effects of Mandatory Freshman Learning Communities: A Statistical Report",
Assessment Update (Jossey-Bass, Publishers), April, 2000.
Sterba-Boatwright, “Thurston Norm and Taut Branched Surfaces”, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol.
102, No. 4 (April 1988), pp. 1052-1056.
Recent Presentations:
"Improved Understanding of Analysis in Pre-service Secondary Mathematics Teachers", 5th Annual
Texas A&M Chancellor’s Conference, Houston, TX, June 25, 2004.
"Constructivism Beats Deconstruction", Title V Best Practices workshop sponsored by the Faculty
Renaissance Center, TAMU-CC, Oct. 24, 2003
