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Several past, present and future student-athletes from UTEP’s track and field program will represent their home countries at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, and for some, this isn’t their first Olympic appearance.
As the world embarks on the new space age of human commercial spaceflight, The University of Texas at El Paso aims not only to spark the interest of students to pursue careers in the aerospace and defense industries, but also provide opportunities for them to secure positions at top organizations.
Hispanic students at a public university experienced increased levels of stress, anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso’s College of Health Sciences.
The University of Texas at El Paso’s Student Emergency Fund was bolstered by a $12,216 gift from Chick-fil-A presented Friday, July 16, 2021, during a ceremony at Centennial Plaza.
A faculty member in The University of Texas at El Paso’s Department of Psychology plans to expand on her recent study into the pandemic’s effect on the mental health of college students, and put a greater focus on the Hispanic population.
More than 20 middle school students recently experienced real-world engineering and computing with a focus on transportation during a three-week hybrid program at The University of Texas at El Paso. One thing they learned was that sometimes empathy is as important as physics to enhance someone’s quality of life.
Evgeny Shafirovich, Ph.D., professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso, and doctoral students, Robert E. Ferguson and Alan A. Esparza, were recognized by the Combustion Institute (CI) for an outstanding paper on their research that advances the field of combustion science, an honor that showcases UTEP’s commitment to advancing discovery.
The Society for Neuroscience announced recently that Israel Garcia-Carachure, a behavioral neuroscience doctoral student at The University of Texas at El Paso, would be one of its 2021-23 Neuroscience Scholar Program (NSP) fellows.
The University of Texas at El Paso was selected as one of 24 U.S. universities to receive a portion of $59 million allotted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to support university-led research projects aimed at improving nuclear reactor infrastructure and providing crucial safety and performance upgrades to some of the nation’s 25 university research reactors.
Two undergraduate students at The University of Texas at El Paso were elected to the Peer-Led Team Learning International Society (PLTLIS) board of directors during the society’s virtual annual conference, hosted by the University.
Miguel Velez-Reyes, Ph.D., professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso, was recognized as a Community Champion among the scientific community for his multitudinous contributions as a longtime member of SPIE, The International Society for Optics and Photonics.
Gabriel Ibarra-Mejia, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor in The University of Texas at El Paso’s Department of Public Health Sciences, has been appointed as the U.S. co-leader for the environmental education and sustainability task force with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s U.S.-Mexico Border Environmental Program.
After completing his undergraduate and master’s work in Idaho and Utah, respectively, Martin Dietze-Hermosa hoped to complete his doctoral degree in a less frigid locale. He found warmer weather at The University of Texas at El Paso. He has also found fulfilling curriculum, faculty members and fellow students who have bolstered his academic and personal growth.
Pei-Ling Hsu, Ph.D., draws on her time as a high school earth science teacher to create “project-based learning” methods for her students at The University of Texas at El Paso, which they use to create engaging science projects for area K-12 students. She has taught different education courses at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels.
