Richard Tapia Center for Excellence & Equity

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Welcome to the Richard Tapia Center for Excellence and Equity at Rice University

The Tapia Center’s mission is to increase the number of Hispanics, African Americans, Native Americans and women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) with an emphasis on leadership development.

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Juliet Stipetche Appointed as Mayor’s Chair of Education

February 5, 2016

Source: Houston Chronicle

XSEDE Scholars Webinar: Matthew Knepley

December 4, 2015

Source: Knepley XSEDE Scholars Webinar

2016-2017 XSEDE Scholars Program Application- Deadline 3/15/2016

November 30, 2015 – March 15, 2016

Source: 2016-2017 XSEDE Scholars Program Application

Blue Waters Internship Program

November 15, 2015 – February 1, 2016

XSEDE Scholar Webinar: What Does a Computational Scientist Do All Day?

December 4, 2015

12:00 pm (Pacific), 1:00 pm (Central), 2:00 pm (Eastern)

By: Matthew Knepley, Assistant Professor, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University

XSEDE Scholar Webinar: The things I wish I had known when I started in HPC

July 22, 2015

2:00pm (Pacific) 4:00pm (Central) 5:00pm (Eastern)

By: Pedro Bello-Maldonado, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, XSEDE Scholar 2013-2015

Applying to Graduate School and the Interview Process

June 11, 2015

10:00 am (Pacific), 12:00pm (Central) , 1:00pm (Eastern)

By: Luis Melara, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Shippensburg University

The Top 10 Mistakes: The Unwritten Rules of Interviewing for Industrial and Academic Jobs

March 26, 2015

2:00 pm Central Time

By: Juan Meza, Dean of Natural Sciences, University of California-Merced