Richard A. Tapia's Homepage

Richard Tapia

University Professor
Maxfield-Oshman Professor in Engineering
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAAM)

Director
Center for Excellence and
Equity in Education

Associate Director of Graduate Studies
Office of Research & Graduate Studies

What's NEW ?

The Blackwell-Tapia Conference 2008
November 14-15, 2008 – Research Triangle Park North Carolina
This is the fifth in a series of biannual conferences honoring David Blackwell and Richard Tapia, two seminal figures who inspired a generation of African-American, Native American and Latino/Latina students to pursue careers in mathematics.

Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference 2009
April 1-4, 2009 — Portland, Oregon

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Read Dr. Tapia's article "True Diversity Doesn't Come From Abroad" published in the September 28, 2007 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

See Heavy Metal, the website about Dr. Tapia's award-winning 1970 Chevelle show car .

Read Dr. Tapia's Commencment Address for Claremont Graduate University, May 17, 2008.