Rice University professor to receive award from National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering

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– October 26, 2001Posted in: News Releases

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RICE
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR TO RECEIVE AWARD
FROM NATIONAL ACTION COUNCIL FOR
MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING
Richard Tapia will be awarded NACME’s highest
honor Saturday in Baltimore


Richard Tapia, the Noah
Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University,
will receive the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering’s (NACME)
highest honor Saturday, Oct. 27, at a luncheon in Baltimore.


NACME is presenting its
Reginald H. Jones Distinguished Service Award to Tapia for his contributions to
engineering and other science-based careers.


The award is named for
the former chairman and CEO of General Electric Company, whose leadership gave
birth to NACME Inc. The prize includes a $10,000 donation in Tapia’s name to a
tax-exempt organization of his choice that is committed to increasing the
representation of minorities in engineering and technology.



Rice University is consistently ranked one of America’s
best teaching and research universities. It is distinguished by its: size-2,700
undergraduates and 1,500 graduate students; selectivity-10 applicants for each
place in the freshman class; resources-an undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio
of 5-to-1, and the fourth largest endowment per student among private American
universities; residential college system, which builds communities that are both
close-knit and diverse; and collaborative culture, which crosses disciplines,
integrates teaching and research, and intermingles undergraduate and graduate
work. Rice’s wooded campus is located in the nation’s fourth largest city and on
America’s South Coast.








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