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This is a busy and exciting time for Georgina Hernández Escobar, assistant professor of instruction with The University of Texas at El Paso’s Department of Theatre and Dance. Her latest efforts debuted in New York and El Paso within days of each other.
A team of researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso will enhance the success of undergraduate Hispanic students in STEM disciplines through a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program.
The University of Texas at El Paso recently started its participation in the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) PhD Career Pathways Humanities Coalition Grant Writing Project, an innovative multi-institutional effort to highlight the diverse career opportunities available to new doctoral graduates in the humanities.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a four-year, $248,000 grant to The University of Texas at El Paso to study how different undergraduate/mentor research partnerships influence future diversity in STEM scholars.
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Kimberly Crider, a national leader in cybersecurity, shared her expertise with The University of Texas at El Paso’s researchers and encouraged female engineering students to continue to pursue and explore careers in the science and engineering industries.
A pair of student teams from The University of Texas at El Paso’s College of Engineering were selected to take part in the Blackstone LaunchPad (BLP) Summer 2021 Fellowship to advance their winning startups that use technological solutions to address some of today’s pressing issues in education.
Graduate students in The University of Texas at El Paso’s College of Business Administration have been awarded financial assistance from the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Internal Auditing Education Partnership (IAEP) program to take the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) exam, the only globally recognized Certified Internal Auditor certificate.
Mengge Li, Ph.D., associate professor at The University of Texas at El Paso’s College of Business Administration, has been named a 2021 Templeton Fellow in the Africa Program of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI).
Aaron Velasco, Ph.D., professor of geological sciences in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Resources Sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso, was announced as one of 14 new fellows of the California Academy of Sciences.
The Texas Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (TACES) Board of Directors named Zuzanna Gromulska of The University of Texas at El Paso as its graduate student representative during the 2021-22 academic year.
The American Political Science Association (APSA) recently announced that its 2021-22 Class of APSA-Sponsored Congressional Fellows included The University of Texas at El Paso’s Olivia Garcia, Ph.D.
An international, multilingual peer-reviewed journal recently published a research paper that explored the experiences and the specific needs of homeless women in the Paso del Norte region prepared by an interdisciplinary team led by researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso.
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.
