DARYL E. CHUBIN
dchubin@nsf.gov

Daryl Chubin is Senior Policy Officer for the National Science Board (NSB) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He joined NSF in 1993 as Division Director for Research, Evaluation and Communication in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources. During 1997, Dr. Chubin served on detail as Assistant Director for Social and Behavioral Sciences (and Education) at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. His Federal career began in 1986 at the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress.

Prior to 1986, Chubin taught at four universities, and currently is Adjunct Professor in two Washington, DC, area programs. He has published seven books and numerous policy reports, articles, and commentaries, including Rethinking Science as a Career: Perceptions and Realities in the Physical Sciences (coauthored, 1995), and Science, Technology, and Society: A Sourcebook on Research and Practice (coedited, 2000).

Chubin is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Chair-elect of AAAS Section X-Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering, President of the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology, and a member of the NAE Forum on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce.

CYNTHIA LANIUS
lanius@rice.edu

Cynthia Lanius is Executive Director of Rice University's Center for Excellence and Equity in Education. In this position she co-directs GirlTECH, a K-12 teacher professional development program that educates teachers to encourage girls' in computing. She serves as Director of Research and Evaluation for Rice's NSF-funded Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, and is Program Manager for NSF's Education, Outreach, and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (EOT-PACI).

Before coming to Rice in March 1998, Lanius was a high school mathematics teacher. She maintains an extensive website of K-12 Teaching Activities that has had over a million visitors <http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons>. She is an American Association of University Women (AAUW) Eleanor Roosevelt Teacher Fellow, a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the Texas Computer Education Association, the Texas Association of Supervisors of Mathematics, and the AAUW. She and Tapia recently co-authored Underrepresented Minority Achievement and Course Taking: The Kindergarten-Graduate Continuum which can be found at < http://ceee.rice.edu/Books/DV/continuum/index.html>.

RICHARD TAPIA
rat@rice.edu

Richard Tapia is Noah Harding Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University. He is also Director of Rice University's Center for Excellence and Equity in Education, and is Leadership Team Director for Rice's NSF-funded Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate. Tapia also co-leads NSF's Education, Outreach, and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (EOT-PACI).

Tapia has authored or co-authored two books and over 80 mathematical research papers. He has delivered numerous invited addresses at national and international mathematical conferences and serves on several national advisory boards. Thirty-six mathematics students have received, or are currently working on, the Ph.D. degree under his direction or co-direction. Of these 36 students, 15 have been women and 8 have been underrepresented minorities.

Tapia's research interests are in computational sciences in general. In particular, mathematical optimization theory and iterative methods for nonlinear problems. His current research is in the area of algorithms for constrained optimization problems and interior-point methods for linear and nonlinear programming.

Among his many honors: In 1996, Tapia received the inaugural Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. In 1992, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the first native born Hispanic to receive this honor.