Event Website
https://vimeo.com/835929424
Start Date
9-6-2023 11:15 AM
End Date
9-6-2023 12:00 PM
Description
Richard A. Tapia is a professor at Rice University, where he has taught since 1970. Tapi specializes in optimization theory and numerical analysis. It has been his lifelong work to help underrepresented minorities achieve academic success and success in life.
In this talk, Tapia emphasizes the importance of diversity in STEM fields and highlights the failures of the education system in supporting underrepresented minorities. Tapia opines that more efforts need to be made to bring domestic underrepresented minorities into STEM positions and to recognize the value they bring. Tapia believes that, to address the lack of minority representation in STEM fields in the United States, there is a need to overcome stereotypes and to ensure excellence among minority groups while also distinguishing between foreign and domestic minorities.
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Session 2: Diversity as Key to Innovation - Stem Education
Richard A. Tapia is a professor at Rice University, where he has taught since 1970. Tapi specializes in optimization theory and numerical analysis. It has been his lifelong work to help underrepresented minorities achieve academic success and success in life.
In this talk, Tapia emphasizes the importance of diversity in STEM fields and highlights the failures of the education system in supporting underrepresented minorities. Tapia opines that more efforts need to be made to bring domestic underrepresented minorities into STEM positions and to recognize the value they bring. Tapia believes that, to address the lack of minority representation in STEM fields in the United States, there is a need to overcome stereotypes and to ensure excellence among minority groups while also distinguishing between foreign and domestic minorities.
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