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A statement from UTEP President Heather Wilson: Miner family, It is with a heavy heart that I share the news that UTEP President Emerita Diana Natalicio, who led the University from 1988-2019, has died.
During a week devoted to recognizing the contributions of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) throughout the nation, The University of Texas of El Paso promotes its efforts as a national leader in shaping the future of higher education by hosting in-person and hybrid events, including an introduction to the University’s Hispanic Servingness Research Council.
An El Paso woman's interest in native plants in the early 1900s has become the subject of a new exhibit that combines student art and a historical plant collection in The University of Texas at El Paso's Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens.
The University of Texas at El Paso announced today the launch of the UTEP Banking Academy, supported by significant contributions from regional and national banks and financial institutions. Part of UTEP's College of Business Administration, the Banking Academy was created to address the shortage of banking professionals in the West Texas and Southern New Mexico region and improve participation of Hispanics in banking management roles.
In an effort to create a more robust and coordinated counseling program, The University of Texas at El Paso has transferred its Master of Rehabilitation Counseling (MRC) program to the College of Education from its home of 11 years, the College of Health Sciences (CHS).
The University of Texas at El Paso welcomes 30 new tenured and tenure-track faculty members to begin the 2021-22 academic year.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced its selection of The University of Texas at El Paso’s Jayajit Chakraborty, Ph.D., to serve on the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) and the EPA’s new Environmental Justice Science Committee.
Azuri Gonzalez, Ed.D., director of the Center for Community Engagement at The University of Texas at El Paso is among El Paso Inc.’s 2021 Women of Impact award recipients.
Seven students from The University of Texas at El Paso College of Business Administration are part of the The University of Texas/Texas A&M Investment Management Company's (UTIMCO) inaugural Scholars Program. Sofia Arciniega, Estefania Bustillos, Paulina Chavez, Daniela Guadarrama, Jazmin Jayme, Alejandra Prieto Moreno and Destiny Rodriguez de San Miguel were selected for their outstanding academic performance and interest in investment management.
The Memorial Foundation, the organization behind the construction of the national Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, recently announced that Diana J. Lopez, a doctoral student at The University of Texas at El Paso, was among its inaugural Social Justice Fellows.
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.
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.
