UTEP’s unique location – a metropolis on the U.S.-Mexico border in the heart of the vast Chihuahuan desert – offers many outstanding research opportunities for faculty and students.
On any given day, the campus is alive with research activity – from the machining of surgical models in the College of Engineering’s rapid-prototyping lab to the study of a person’s memory of a crime in the Eyewitness Identification Research Laboratory in the Department of Psychology.
And out in the field, you’ll find UTEP researchers mapping the geological features of the nearby Franklin Mountains and anthropologists excavating prehistoric villages long claimed by the cactus-studded desert sand.
UTEP continues to make significant strides toward recognition as a top-tier public research institution in Texas. In 1989, UTEP annual research expenditures were $3.9 million. In 2007, research spending totaled more than $46 million.