Richard A. Tapia - Honors and Awards (selected)

Honors and Awards (selected)

• Hispanic Heritage Award in Math and Science, September 2009.
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession, Portland OR, July 2004.
• Community Service Award, University of California Los Angeles Alumni Association, Los Angeles, California, May 2004.
• Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology Magazine, "One of the 50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business" April 2004.
• Distinguished Public Service Award, American Mathematical Society, Phoenix, Arizona, January 2004.
• Texas Science Hall of Fame Inductee, Institute of Texan Cultures, University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, January 2002.
• Reginald H. Jones Distinguished Service Award, NACME, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, October 2001.
• Distinguished Scientist Award, Society for the Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) National Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2000.
• 1999 Giants in Science Award, Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network, Washington, DC, February 1999.
• 1997 Lifetime Mentor Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1998.
• Recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, September 1996.
• Appointed to the National Science Board by President Clinton, August 1996.
• National Academy of Engineering, February 1992.
• Was chosen to have a "Celebration of Diversity in Computing" conference named after him (usually held biannually ). Actually, maybe that should be 1.5 conferences, counting the Blackwell-Tapia_prize#Blackwell-Tapia_Conference.