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The University of Texas at El Paso will host “A Conversation with Dr. Z. Anthony Kruszewski” at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, in the Blumberg Auditorium on the first floor of the University Library.
Funding will support the Diana Natalicio Institute for Hispanic Student Success, which will serve as a national resource and model for Hispanic student success
The University of Texas at El Paso’s School of Nursing will offer the only neonatal concentration and postgraduate certificate for nurse practitioners in West Texas and New Mexico starting in the spring 2022 semester. The Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) concentration in UTEP’s Master of Science in Nursing program will address the critical shortage of neonatal nurse practitioners in the region.
More than 150 K-12 and higher education leaders from around the country traveled to West Texas to see firsthand how The University of Texas at El Paso and its regional education partners have been able to implement a series of initiatives designed to ensure that new teachers are ready to meet the demands of real classroom settings.
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) recently announced its selection of The University of Texas at El Paso’s Arshad M. Khan, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, as one of its two 2021 Award for Education in Neuroscience recipients.
Chu-Young Kim, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The University of Texas at El Paso, has solved a 30-year-old scientific riddle — a feat that is being documented in the latest edition of Science, one of the world’s most renowned academic journals. Kim’s study provides the first detailed look at the structure and function of an enzyme that produces polyketide natural products — compounds found within nature that are widely used as human medicine.
Eduardo Sano, a finance major in The University of Texas at El Paso’s College of Business Administration, was awarded a $10,000 scholarship from PGIM, the principal investment management business of Prudential Financial Inc. (PFI).
The International Latino Book Awards recognized author David Smith-Soto, an alumnus of The University of Texas at El Paso, with its Gold Award in the Adventure/Drama Novel category for “Havana Hallelujah.”
The Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) announced that it awarded The University of Texas at El Paso’s Josiah Heyman, Ph.D., its 2021 Distinguished Achievement Award in the Critical Study of North America. This prize recognizes scholars with a history of research and publications.
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.
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.
