UTSA math professor appointed to national education panel

(April 8, 2002)—University of Texas at San Antonio mathematics professor Manuel Berriozabal has been appointed to serve on a national education panel that will focus on pre-K through 12 education.

The Blue Ribbon Panel on Best Practices in pre-K through 12 education plans to increase the participation of girls, members of under-represented minority groups, and students with disabilities in the fields of science, engineering and technology.

The panel will meet under the auspices of BEST (Building Engineering and Science Talent), a recently launched public-private partnership with a Congressional mandate to expand the U.S. pool of technical talent by meeting the diversity challenge.

Included in the panel are nationally recognized policy makers, practitioners, and researchers with expertise to determine what policies and programs are best to prepare under-represented groups to pursue majors in scientific and technical fields.

Berriozabal, a professor at UTSA since 1976, originated the successful Prefreshman Engineering Program (PREP), which has been copied in other communities statewide and nationally. The goal of the program is to identify high-achieving students in grades 6-11 with the potential to become engineers or scientists, and give them needed reinforcement and encouragement. He has also been inducted in the Texas Science Hall of Fame.

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