Internal Funding
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Congratulations to the 2020 #utep3MT Finalists & Winners! |
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Travel Grants |
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2018 Dodson Research Grantee & NOAA Experiential Research and Training Opportunities (NERTO) intern Julio Ceniceros. Julio is currently a first-year PhD student in Environmental Science & Engineering. Photo by Nadia Colombi.Important—Please read carefully:
To ensure your application is considered, please keep the following in mind:- Some funding opportunities listed below use an online form to receive applications. If you have problems with those forms, please take a screenshot and email it to helpdesk@utep.edu. Note that links may not work during system maintenance on the third Thursday night of each month;
- Many applications require the approval of a faculty mentor and/or the submission of letters of support by the application deadline. For electronic forms, the faculty mentor and/or referees will receive an email with a link to the form task once the student submits their part of the application;
- Students should communicate with their faculty mentor and/or referee(s) to ensure that the faculty approval and any other supporting documents are submitted before the deadline;
- Incomplete and late applications will not be reviewed. In order for an application to be considered "complete," the form, any requested supporting documents, and the faculty component(s) must be completed according to the instructions and submitted by the deadline.
Travel Grants
The UTEP Graduate School has funds available to assist students with the cost of travel to academic conferences and meetings and specialized professional development opportunities. Because travel is limited, we are allowing alternatives to travel this year (e.g., registration fees for virtual conferences). The Travel Grant is a competitive application; the Graduate School funds the highest quality proposals up to $850. There are four deadlines each year.
Next Cycle Deadline: November 30, 2020
Travel Grant Details & Instructions
Dodson Research Grants
Next Cycle Deadline: October 31, 2020
Three Minute Thesis
Master's and doctoral students completing a capstone, thesis, or dissertation have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their research. 3MT challenges students to consolidate their ideas and present them concisely to a non-specialist audience for a chance to win up to $750.
2020 Finalists & Winners:
| Julie M. Schlichte | 1st Place | Biology (MS) | Jerry Johnson, Mentor |
| Maria Tays Mendes | 2nd Place & People's Choice | Biological Sciences (PhD) | Igor Almeida, Mentor |
| Elvira Carrizal-Dukes | Honorable Mention for People's Choice | Rhetoric & Composition (PhD) | Kate Mangelsdorf, Mentor |
| Moinul Morshed Porag Chowdhury | Honorable Mention for People's Choice | Computer Science (PhD) | Christopher Kiekintveld, Mentor |
| Jenna Lynn Faith | Finalist | Geological Sciences (PhD) | Diane Doser, Mentor |
| Angel F. Garcia Contreras | Finalist | Computer Science (PhD) | Martine Ceberio, Mentor |
| Nakul N. Karle | Finalist | Environmental Science & Engineering (PhD) | Rosa Fitzgerald, Mentor |
| Erick Saldes | Finalist | Biological Sciences (PhD) | Kyung-An Han, Mentor |
2019 Finalists & Winners:
| Kathryn Wedemeyer-Strombel | 1st Place | Environmental Science & Engineering (PhD) | Tarla Rai Peterson, Mentor |
| Marisol Dominguez | 2nd Place | Geology (PhD) | Hugo Guitierrez, Mentor |
| Angel I. Solis | People's Choice | Computer Engineering (MS) | Patricia Nava, Mentor |
| Jessica R. Bray | Finalist | Psychology (PhD) | Stephen Crites, Mentor |
| Robert Diaz | Finalist | History (MA) | Brad Cartwright, Mentor |
| Grecia Daniela Medina | Finalist | Biology (MS) | Kyung-An Han, Mentor |
| Daniel Michael Mejia | Finalist | Computer Science (PhD) | Natalia Villanueva Rosales, Mentor |
| Mahdi Saghafi | Finalist | Civil Engineering (PhD) | Soheil Nazarian, Mentor |
| Erick Benjamin Saldes | Finalist | Biological Sciences (PhD) | Kyung-An Han, Mentor |
| Ana Margarita Vargas | Finalist | Biomedical Engineering (PhD) | Luis R. Martinez, Mentor |
2018 Finalists & Winners:
| Bing Yu | 1st Place | Materials Science & Engineering (PhD) | Devesh Misra, Mentor |
| Rocio Acevedo | 2nd Place | Teaching, Learning, & Culture (PhD) | Alberto Esquinca, Mentor |
| Anna Mwangi | People's Choice | Geological Sciences (PhD) | Laura Serpa, Mentor |
| Marisol Dominguez | Finalist | Geological Sciences (PhD) | Hugo Gutiérrez, Mentor |
| Mohammad Shafinul Haque | Finalist | Mechanical Engineering (PhD) | Calvin Stewart, Mentor |
| Yashwanth Injeti | Finalist | Materials Science & Engineering (PhD) | Devesh Misra, Mentor |
| Miguel Juarez | Finalist | History (PhD) | Paul Edison, Mentor |
| Venkata Vignesh Natarajan | Finalist | Materials Science & Engineering (PhD) | Devesh Misra, Mentor |
| Paloma A. Valenzuela | Finalist | Biological Sciences (PhD) | Giulio Francia, Mentor |
| Emmanuel Zubia | Finalist | Environmental Science & Engineering (PhD) | Mahesh Narayan, Mentor |
Natalicio Dissertation Fellowship
The Natalicio Dissertation Fellowship is awarded on a competitive basis to an outstanding PhD student for the final stage of completing a dissertation. The Fellowship provides $10,000 to support a student for the last semester of dissertation work. The award process occurs in the spring for students completing in the subsequent academic year. One student is nominated per doctoral program. The Graduate Program Director submits the application packet (one single .pdf) on behalf of the nominating doctoral program. A faculty panel reviews all of the applicants and selects the final recipients of this prestigious award.
Next Cycle Deadline: April 30, 2020
Nomination Instructions & Cover Sheet
Summer Enhancement Awards
The Graduate School requests proposals for projects that will help improve the Graduate School and/or graduate education. We plan to provide at least three summer awards of $3500 to graduate students to pursue a project. The type of project is up to you, and we encourage you to be creative and use the skills you are acquiring in your graduate program.
Deadline: April 30
Doctoral Excellence Fellowships
The goal of the Doctoral Excellence Fellowships is to support recruitment of outstanding students into UTEP doctoral programs. For the 2020-21 nomination cycle, the Graduate School offered a limited number of three-year fellowships (a fixed award of $4000 tuition support per year) to first-year doctoral students beginning in Fall 2020.
- Graduate programs are encouraged to use their own funds to supplement this tuition award, but the source of funding must be differentiated in the offer letter.
- The offers of Excellence Fellowships should be part of a package of financial support that includes an assistantship or equivalent.
- Funding is competitive across all programs, and nominees need not be Texas residents. However, please be aware that the majority of our available funding is restricted to Texas residents.
- Nominations must be made by the Graduate Program Director with the approval of the program's graduate admissions committee.
- Programs may nominate up to four students per doctoral program and must rank those candidates in order of preference on the nomination form.
- Nominations are due by April 1, 2020.
The 2020-21 nomination cycle has concluded. The next cycle will open in January 2021.
