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- White House announced on 9/27/11 that Richard Tapia will receive the National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama.
- University Professor, Rice University, 2005 – present
- Maxfield and Oshman Professorship in Engineering,
Rice University, 2005 - present
- Conference Committee Chair, “50 years of Alternating Direction
Methods: Honoring the Contributions of Douglas Peaceman Rachford.” Rice
University, Houston, Texas, November 2005
- Director, Center for Excellence and Equity in Education,
1999 - present
- Session Honoring the 60th Birthday of Richard A. Tapia,
1998 SIAM Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, July 1998
- Member: National Science Board, 1996 - 2002
- Commencement speaker, Jefferson Davis High School, Houston,
June 1994
- Panelist: Duke Graduate School symposium, “The Future
of Minorities in American Higher Education,” November,
1992
- Member: National Academy of Engineering, 1992
- Address to fourth and fifth grades: “Our Hispanic
Heritage and Science,” West University Elementary
School, Houston, May 5, 1992
- Keynote speaker: “Building the Future, ”Mathematics
2000, California Coalition for Mathematics, Sacramento,
March 1992
- Member: Mathematical Sciences Education Board, National
Research Council, 1992 - present
- Member: Committee on Professional Recognition and Rewards,
Joint Policy Board on Mathematics, 1992 - present
- Member: Strategic Planning Task Force of the American
Mathematical Society, 1990 - 1991
- Member: SIAM Board of Trustees, 1989 - 1992
- Member: Executive Committee, Center for Research on Parallel
Computation, Rice University, 1989 - 2000
- Director of Education and Outreach Programs, Center for
Research on Parallel Computation, Rice University, 1989
- 2000
- Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Office of Research
and Graduate Studies, Rice University, 1989 - present
- Chair, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rice University,
1978 - 1983
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