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10/26/2001 CONTACT: B.J. Almond
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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