{"id":101955,"date":"2026-05-23T13:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/23\/richard-tapia-pioneering-mathematician-and-advocate-for-diversity-passes-away-at-88-rice-university\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T13:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:24:19","slug":"richard-tapia-pioneering-mathematician-and-advocate-for-diversity-passes-away-at-88-rice-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/23\/richard-tapia-pioneering-mathematician-and-advocate-for-diversity-passes-away-at-88-rice-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Tapia, pioneering mathematician and advocate for diversity, passes away at 88 &#8211; Rice University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirAFBVV95cUxNbEpFR3I0Tncwc2ViWmswYzlYWmFxbkpBTW14aVVmeUFDckFjMGIwNW9vcXgzTFBjYnh0a1Q1RzRSWmR3MjhvU1FIWkEtd0hISWJoaVREcGxqb0c3Tlh3OFptMU42UE5QSjlObVVzZ0Q3UE8wTTl0OGtGeFRYem1RdGhXUXRfU1psV0pNWUhOSlh2SDhkVGJEMHViTHloNXQ3NW5FQzdiWHFrLW1r?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Tapia, pioneering mathematician and advocate for diversity, passes away at 88<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Rice University<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Tapia, pioneering mathematician and advocate for diversity, passes away at 88&nbsp;&nbsp;Rice University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}