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- Member: Distinguished Public Service Award Committee, AAAS, 2007
- 2012
- Member: Emerging Research Institutions Committee, NAE, 2007
- Member: Board of Directors, Math for America, New York, NY, 2006 - present
- Member: GRE® Technical Advisory Committee (TAC),
ETS, 2006 - present
- Member: Human Resources Advisory Committee, Board of
Trustees of Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI),
2006 - present
- Member: Advisory Board, Computing Alliance for Hispanic-Serving
Institutions, 2006 - present
- Member: Board of Directors, the Academy of Medicine,
Engineering, and Science of Texas (TAMEST), 2006 - present
- Conference Committee Chair, “50 years of Alternating
Direction Methods: Honoring the Contributions of Douglas
Peaceman Rachford.” Rice University, Houston, Texas,
November 2005
- Member: AAAS Committee on Nominations, 2005 - 2006
- Member: Prize Committee for INFORMS Optimization
Society, 2005
- Member Search Committee, Assistant Director for Education
and Human Resources at the National Science Foundation,
2004
- Member: Research Advisory Committee, Texas Higher Education
Opportunity Project, 2004 - present
- Co-chair of the Research Board for Building Engineering
and Science Talent (BEST), 2001 - 2004
- Member: Board on Higher Education and Workforce, National
Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, 2001 -
2004
- Chair: VCCA National Meeting 2000, Nacogdoches, Texas,
June 2000
- Member: Public Affairs Advisory Group (PAAG), National
Science Foundation, 1999 - 2001
- Member: Board of Directors, Institute for Pure and Applied
Mathematics, University of California - Los Angeles, 1999
- present
- Member: Board of Directors, Ambassadors International
Ballet Folklorico, Houston, Texas, 1999 - present
- Chair: Advisory Board, HULINC, Houston,Texas, 1999 -
2003
- Chair: Search Committee, Executive Director for the AMP
program at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas,
1999 - 2001
- Co-chair: SIAM 2000 National Meeting, Puerto Rico, 1999
- 2000
- Faculty Member: WM. Keck Center for Computational Biology,
Rice University, 1999 - present
- Faculty Member: Structural and Computational Biology
and Molecular Biophysics (SCBMB) Graduate Program, Baylor
College of Medicine, 1998 - 2000
- Member: Task Force on Values in Education, Joint Policy
Board for Mathematics, 1996 - 1997
- Member: National Science Board , 1996 - 2002
- Member: Formal Strategic Planning Committee, The Rice
School/La Escuela Rice, Houston, Texas, 1995 - present
- Member: Advisory Board of Texas Statewide Systemic Initiative
for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (SSI),
The University of Texas-Austin, 1995 - 2000
- Member: The Computing Research Association Committee
on Women, 1992 - 2000
- Member: Mathematical Sciences Education Board, National
Academy of Sciences, 1992 - 1994
- Member: Rewards and Evaluations Committee, Joint Policy
Board on Mathematics , 1992 - 1994
- Member: AMS-MAA Speaker Selection Committee for 1993
AMS-MAA Joint National Meeting, 1992
- Member: Committee on Minority Participation in Mathematics,
Mathematical Association of America, 1991 - 2000
- Co-organizer: 6th Mexico-United States Workshop on Numerical
Analysis, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1991
- Member: Strategic Planning Task Force, American Mathematical
Society, 1990 - 1991
- Member: American Mathematical Society Committee on Education,
1990 - 1991
- Member: SIAM Board of Trustees, 1989 - 1992
- Instructor and Director: NSF Chautauqua short course,
"Interior-Point Methods for Linear Programming," Portland,
Oregon, 1989
- Member: Selection Committee, National Chicano Council
for Higher Education (NCCHE) Hispanic Science Fellowship,
Irvine, California, 1988
- Co-organizer: 5th Mexico-United States Workshop on Numerical
Analysis, Merida, Mexico, 1988
- Co-organizer: Second SIAM International Conference on
Optimization, Houston, Texas, 1987
- Member: AMS-MAA Task Force on Minorities, 1986 - 1989
- Member: Advisory Committee Texas Coordinating Board,
1986 - 1988
- Program Chairman: SIAM SIGOP (Special Interest Group
in Optimization), 1986 - 1988
- Panel Member: Board on Assessment of NBS Programs, 1986
- 2000
- SIGOP Representative: SIAM News, 1986 - 1990
- Member: Committee on SIAM News, 1986
- Organizer: Special Session on the Karmarkar Algorithm,
SIAM National Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 1986
- Mathematics Director: HMSIC Houston Mathematics and Science
Improvement Consortium, NSF sponsored program for precollege
teachers of mathematics and science, Baylor College of
Medicine, Houston, Texas, 1985 - 1988
- Member: Accreditation Committee, High School for the
Health Professions (HSHP), Houston, Texas, 1985
- Member: Accreditation Committee, High School for the
Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA), Houston, Texas, 1985
- Co-organizer: 4th Mexico-United States Workshop on Numerical
Analysis, Guanajuato, Mexico, 1984
- Member: NSF Advisory Committee on Minorities and Women,
1981 - 1982
- Co-organizer: 3rd Mexico-United States Workshop on Numerical
Analysis, Cocoyoc, Mexico, 1981
- Chairman and Co-organizer: SIAM National Meeting, Houston,
Texas, 1980
- Member: SIAM Program Committee, 1979 - 1985
- Member: SIAM Committee on Human Rights of Mathematical
Scientists, 1979 - 1981
- Instructor and Director: NSF Chautauqua Short Course,
“Computational Methods for Nonlinear Problems,”
Santa Ana, California; Portland, Oregon and Albuquerque,
New Mexico, 1979 - 1980
- Co-organizer: 2nd Mexico-United States Workshop on Numerical
Analysis, Mexico City, 1979
- Session Organizer: 10th Interface Symposium on Computer
Science and Statistics, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 1977
- Co-organizer: First Mexico-United States Workshop on
Numerical Analysis, Mexico City, 1977
- Vice-President: National Board of Directors of Society
for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
(SACNAS), 1975 - 1977
- Member: NSF Evaluation Committee for Minority Institutions
Science Improvement Program (MISIP) Applications, Washington,
D.C., 1975
- Member: Selection Committee for NSF Graduate Fellowships
in Applications of Mathematics, 1975
- Member: NIH Site Visit Committee, for MSIP (Minority
Institutions Science Improvement Program), Bethune-Cookman
College, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1974
- Member: Board of Directors of the Greater Houston Chapter
of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1973 - 1976
- Member: Board of Directors of League of United Latin
American Citizens (LULAC) Houston Educational Service
Centers, 1973 - 1974
- Member: Cabinet Committee on Opportunity for the Spanish
Speaking, Washington, D.C., 1973
- Member: National Board of Directors of Society for Advancement
of Chicanos and Native Americans in Sciences (SACNAS),
1972 - 1977
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