Outreach Efforts Earn Rice’s Tapia Top Honor From AAAS

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OUTREACH EFFORTS EARN RICE’S TAPIA TOP HONOR FROM AAAS

The American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS) named Rice Professor Richard Tapia as the
recipient of its Lifetime Mentor Award for 1997.

This annual award honors individuals who, during their careers, demonstrate
extraordinary leadership to increase the participation in science and
engineering fields and careers of underrepresented groups, including women of
all racial and ethnic groups; African-American, American Indian and Hispanic
men; and people with disabilities.

Tapia, the Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics,
spends summers bringing math and science programs to elementary and secondary
school teachers and students. He is also director of education and human
resources for the Center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice. He has
been a member of the Rice faculty since 1970.

His outreach efforts include: