UTEP In the Spotlight: The Dallas Morning News
In its June 16, 2019 issue, The Dallas Morning News pays tribute to how outgoing UTEP President Diana Natalicio has “shown how education can transform a community.”
UTEP Awarded Grant to Expand Men’s Diabetes Program
The Diabetes Garage, a men’s diabetes management and self-care program, will offer men in Texas who have the disease the gift of health to last a lifetime.
UTEP Research to Map Conditioned Fear Responses in Brain Circuits
A partnership between researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso and the University at Albany (UAlbany) in New York will attempt to understand how neural circuits that encode learned responses to fear develop in mammalian brains.
UTEP In the Spotlight: Texas Monthly
In its June 2019 issue, Texas Monthly pays tribute to Diana Natalicio’s 31-year tenure as President of The University of Texas at El Paso in a unique way.
UTEP Celebrates Last Cooperative Pharmacy Program Graduates
When her son was young, Erick Romero's mom would ask the neighborhood pharmacist for advice to treat a runny nose or an upset stomach.
Miners Assist Refugees in El Paso
The thousands of refugees from Central America and Mexico who have crossed into El Paso since late 2018 strained the capabilities of the area's social service agencies. There was a need for community volunteers, and some UTEP employees and students answered that call.
NEH Selects UTEP Professor as Summer Scholar
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that The University of Texas at El Paso’s Zita Arocha, associate professor of practice in the Department of Communication, will be one of 30 NEH Summer Scholars to participate in a four-week study seminar at the University of Tampa in Florida.
UTEP Postdoctoral Researcher Receives Microsoft’s AI for Earth Grant
Microsoft has awarded a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Texas at El Paso with a grant to extend the efforts of the College of Science’s Systems Ecology Laboratory in understanding how widespread and ongoing change in Arctic terrestrial ecosystems might threaten not only local natural landscapes and Arctic native communities but also global Earth system processes.
UTEP Mathe-musician’s Project Earns NSF Accolade
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced that a team of researchers co-led by The University of Texas at El Paso’s Lawrence Lesser, Ph.D., professor of mathematical sciences, had won a grand prize at the NSF’s inaugural “We Are Mathematics” video competition.
U.S. Group Honors UTEP Geography Professor’s Work
The Political Geography Specialty Group, which is part of the Association of American Geographers, recently announced that it selected The University of Texas at El Paso’s Jeremy Slack, Ph.D., assistant professor of geography, to receive its Richard Morrill Award for Public Outreach.
UTEP Ph.D. Student Awarded with Department of Defense SMART Scholarship
David Guenaga, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geological Sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso, was awarded the Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship by the Department of Defense.
UTEP Educator Inspires Children at Groundbreaking
The University of Texas at El Paso’s Josefina V. “Josie” Tinajero, Ed.D., shared words of wisdom and gratitude before turning over a shovel full of dirt on May 10, 2019, at Henderson Middle School, 5505 Robert Alva Ave., at a ceremonial groundbreaking for a school that would bear her name.
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