Rice University Hosts Book Presentation

Rice University’s Multicultural Community Relations department hosted a book presentation for Richard Tapia’s “Losing The Precious Few: How America Fails to Educate Its Minorities in Science and Engineering” Feb. 22 in Anne and Charles Duncan Hall’s McMurtry Auditorium.

The book identifies issues that contribute to the lack of minorities in graduate STEM programs, including a dependence on standardized tests, deficiencies in K-12 education, and historic and ongoing racism.

Tapia is a University Professor, the Maxfield-Oshman Chair in Engineering, a professor of computational applied mathematics and operations research, and director of the Tapia Center for Excellence and Equity.