Author Discovers Happiest People in America: UTEP Faculty

Author Gary Shteyngart took a bus trip across the country to find the happiest people in the U.S. His answer? Faculty at The University of Texas at El Paso. Shteyngart shared his findings on the PBS NewsHour segment “In My Humble Opinion.”

UTEP In The Spotlight: BBC Features UTEP’s Institute of Oral History Collection

A recent BBC World News "Witness" podcast highlighted the complex history of the Bracero Program that brought millions of Mexican guest workers to the United States from 1942 to 1964.

Support Continues for ADP MaST Academy at UTEP to Bolster Science and Math Teacher Education

The quality of secondary mathematics and science teachers who graduate from The University of Texas at El Paso’s ADP Math and Science Teachers (MaST) Academy continues to be bolstered by a 12-year commitment from ADP, a global leader in human capital management.

UTEP engineering and education professor Roger Gonzalez, Ph.D., has been named a TIAA Difference Maker 100 Honoree for his founding and work with LIMBS International, a nonprofit that bridges the gap between affordability and functionality by designing, donating and supplementing affordable prosthetic limbs for the developing world.

UTEP Professor Receives TIAA Difference Maker Award

Roger Gonzalez, Ph.D., finds inspiration in supporting others. The professor and chair of the Department of Engineering Education and Leadership at The University of Texas at El Paso abides by that notion not only through teaching but enhancing the lives of individuals who have lost limbs.

Thenral Mangadu, M.D., Ph.D., left, a public health sciences associate professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, and Nate Robinson, UTEP assistant vice president for facility security in the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects, co-founded the Global Alliance for Healthier Populations (GAHP). Launched in 2018, GAHP is an international alliance dedicated to behavioral and social interventions to address and diminish epidemics, in particular targeting the world’s vulnerable and border communities. Photo: J.R. Hernandez / UTEP Communications

UTEP Alliance Bridges Gap in Global Health

In the Valley of a Thousand Hills — a scenic, rural landscape of densely folded hills nestled between the cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg in South Africa’s province of KwaZulu-Natal — hundreds of children have lost one or both parents to AIDS-related illnesses.

John Ciubuc, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, was part of a team that presented a project at this year’s Interdisciplinary Research and Education Symposium.

Annual Interdisciplinary Research and Education Symposium Signals Growth of Collaborative Culture at UTEP

Change is apparent throughout The University of Texas at El Paso campus. New buildings and updated roads are in the works with plans for more. There are also new facilities, new deans and new coaches. But one particularly profound change has quietly been taking place in classrooms, labs and offices across the University for several years now.

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UTEP Professor is Campus’ 1st National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Russell Chianelli, Ph.D., a professor and research faculty member at The University of Texas at El Paso who holds more than 60 U.S. patents, has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow.

Leah Whigham, Ph.D., executive director of the Paso del Norte Institute for Healthy Living at UTEP, will serve as secretary/treasurer of The Obesity Society. Before being elected to secretary/treasurer, Whigham served on the society’s Finance Committee and chaired the Audit Committee.

Institute for Healthy Living Executive Director to Serve on The Obesity Society’s Executive Committee

Leah Whigham, Ph.D., executive director of the Paso del Norte Institute for Healthy Living (PdNIHL) at UTEP, will serve as secretary/treasurer of The Obesity Society (TOS).

UTEP Receives Grant Extension from Criminal Justice Division for Campus Advocacy and Education

The University of Texas at El Paso has received a two-year grant extension in the amount of $931,769 from the Texas Office of the Governor to continue supporting and serving UTEP students who are crime victims.

Calvin M. Stewart, Ph.D., associate professor of mechanical engineering in UTEP’s College of Engineering, will help enhance the sustainability of structures moving at hypersonic speeds through a $130,000 grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory.

UTEP Mechanical Engineering Professor to Study Materials for Hypersonic Cruise Vehicles

A mechanical engineering professor from The University of Texas at El Paso will help enhance the sustainability of structures moving at hypersonic speeds through a $130,000 grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).

Luis Rene Contreras-Sapien, Ph.D., associate professor and undergraduate program director in UTEP’s Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering; and Calvin M. Stewart, Ph.D., associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Material at Extremes Research Group under the direction of UTEP’s NASA MIRO Center for Space Exploration Technology and Research (cSETR), have been selected to take part in an academic exchange and exploration of Israel through an opportunity offered by the Jewish National Fund.

Two UTEP Professors Among 24 Selected Nationally for Winter Fellowship in Israel

A pair of engineering professors from The University of Texas at El Paso have been selected to take part in an academic exchange and exploration of Israel through an opportunity offered by the Jewish National Fund.

UTEP Faculty Member to Serve on Council for Texas Transgender Health

Oralia Loza, Ph.D., UTEP associate professor of public health sciences, has been selected to serve on the TransFORWARD Research Engagement Advisory Council for TransFORWARD: A Transgender-Powered Research Collaborative in Texas.

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