Updates & Upcoming Events
Viva La Salud! College of Health Sciences Health Disparities Conference
September 2023
Sep. 14-15, 2023 - Viva La Salud health disparities conference hosted by the College of Health Sciences. Students, faculty, staff, and community partners are welcome to attend.
Please RSVP by September 9th: https://chsapp.utep.edu/viva-la-salud/.
UTEP Visualization & Interactive Collaboration Competition Results
May 2023
The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) is pleased to announce the outcome of the inaugural UTEP VizInC Competition that took place on Friday, April 28. This student-focused competition offered an opportunity for students and their faculty coaches to demonstrate creative ways to use visualization to present complex problems. Interdisciplinary team approaches were encouraged.
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1st Annual UTEP Visualization & Interactive Collaboration (VizInC) Competition
January 2023
The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects invites all UTEP students and faculty to participate in the 1st Annual UTEP Visualization & Interactive Collaboration (VizInC) Competition. This student-focused competition offers an opportunity for students and their faculty coaches to demonstrate creative ways to use visualization to present complex problems. Interdisciplinary team approaches are encouraged. Data visualizations may include, but are not limited to: maps, charts, video renderings, graphs, data art, and 3D models. Submissions can be static, animated, or web-based interactive stories, but must have been in some way generated and/or processed by hardware in the VizInC laboratory, located in the Interdisciplinary Research Building (IDRB).
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Dean's Lecture Series with Dr. Amado Alarcón: Bi/Language Skills vs. Stem Skills in the Labor Market: Evidence and Controversies
September 2022
Join us for this Dean's Lecture Series with Dr. Amado Alarcón, professor of Sociology in the College of Business at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Terragona, Spain. Dr. Alarcón is an expert on bilingualism in the workplace who will share his knowledge as a project leader of over 30 interdisciplinary and international research teams.
Series one will be held on Friday, September 23, 2022 from 10:30-12: "Bi/Language Skills vs. Stem Skills in the Labor Market: Evidence and Controversies"
We hope to see you there!
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Viva La Salud! College of Health Sciences Health Disparities Conference
July 2022
Save the Date, CHS Miners! ⛏ Sep. 16, 2022 - Viva La Salud health disparities conference hosted by the College of Health Sciences. Students, faculty and community partners are welcome to attend.
Please RSVP by September 9th: https://chsapp.utep.edu/viva-la-salud/.
UTEP Receives $5M NIH Grant to Build Imaging and Behavioral Neuroscience Facility
April 2022
A cutting-edge research facility being developed at The University of Texas at El Paso is the most recent addition to an ambitious expansion of biomedical research initiatives addressing Hispanic health disparities.
The Imaging and Behavioral Neuroscience facility will be built on the first floor of the Interdisciplinary Research Building as part of a $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Importantly, the University has committed an additional $1.5 million to purchase new, high-end imaging equipment for the facility. The combined new space and equipment will allow the University to address the mechanisms that contribute to health disparities related to cancer and neurological disorders that significantly affect Hispanic people.
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AI/ML Ideation Workshop
March 2022
The ideation workshop (facilitated by Thenral Mangadu, Associate Vice President, Interdisciplinary Research; Elsa Villa, Associate Director; Elizabeth Hall, Director of Institutional Proposal Development; and Salamah Salamah, Chair, Computer Science) on Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ML) Interdisciplinary Applications held on march 24th at the IDRB engaged faculty from across Colleges and Departments at UTEP in a rich discussion to advance AI/ML research in various domains/topics.
Border Crossers Performances at the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez Border
October 2021
The first Border Crossers intervention took place on May 23rd, 2021 at the U.S-Mexico border in Naco, Arizona/Naco, Sonora. This was only the first of a series of public performances in collaboration with the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts. The next performances will take place in October 2021 at the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez border. A group of six undergraduate students from the Department of Art accompanied Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Angel Cabrales for a two-week workshop in Bisbee, Arizona during the month of August. UTEP students worked alongside the artist, Chico MacMurtrie and his team of engineers and programmers from Amorphic Studio to create the framework for a sixth Border Crosser designed to operate in water. The artist will be in residency in the IDR Building from late August -late October, collaborating both with the UTEP Department of Art and a team from the UACJ who will be leading Juarez workshops and activities.
Interdisciplinary Team Science Addressing Modifiable Cancer Risk & Protective Factors (MCR) Community Engagement
August 2021
Every three months, we host the Cuidate El Paso HPV Advisory Committee meeting where we invite various agencies partners to continue promoting public health and work in collaboration, to strengthen our systems of care around the issue of HPV. If any community agency is interested in joining our quarterly meetings, we ask for then to email Jessica Ayala at jayala8@utep.edu for more information.
On July 12, the project team in partnership with faculty from the UTEP School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, the Department of Social Work and Clinical Laboratory Science Program hosted the 2021 Summer Health Opportunity Prevention and Education (HOPE) health fair at the Opportunity Center for the Homeless where alongside community agencies, 63 adults experiencing homelessness were served. In addition, Cuidate El Paso participated in the 2021 Health Fair in San Elizario, Texas hosted by Familias Triunfadoras where Bertha Aguilar, CHW, educated the community about HPV prevention and promoted vaccination.
Interdisciplinary Team Science Addressing Modifiable Cancer Risk & Protective Factors (MCR) Research
August 2021
The project team completed the study data collection phase which consisted of online Vaccine Attitudes and Knowledge Survey (VAKS) questionnaires (n= 602); Health care providers and emerging professionals (n=92), focus groups with health, human service professionals and community health workers, young male adults (n=13) and survivors (n=15) and caregiver (n= 14 ). Findings will inform the development of culturally tailored multimedia HPV bilingual messages via difference sources like podcast and short PSA videos. The team will lead a clinical trial to test the message intervention through the deployment of multicultural, bilingual health tools to increase awareness and promote HPV vaccination and prevention.
Welcome Jessica Ayala, MSW
August 2021
BBRC HPV Research Project also known as Cuidate El Paso: Protecting our Community against HPV welcomes Jessica Ayala, as the new project coordinator/manager. Jessica, a recent graduate from the UTEP Social Work Master’s Program, will now facilitate the HPV project into completing its purpose of normalizing HPV vaccination, increase HPV cancer screenings, and improve health literacy to reduce cancer health disparities.
Interdisciplinary Team Science Addressing Modifiable Cancer Risk & Protective Factors (MCR) Community Engagement
July 2021
Every three months, we host the Cuidate El Paso HPV Advisory Committee meeting where we invite various agencies partners to continue promoting public health and work in collaboration, to strengthen our systems of care around the issue of HPV. If any community agency is interested in joining our quarterly meetings, we ask for then to email Jessica Ayala at jayala8@utep.edu for more information. On July 12, the project team in partnership with faculty from the UTEP School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, the Department of Social Work and Clinical Laboratory Science Program hosted the 2021 Summer Health Opportunity Prevention and Education (HOPE) health fair at the Opportunity Center for the Homeless where alongside community agencies, 63 adults experiencing homelessness were served. In addition, Cuidate El Paso participated in the 2021 Health Fair in San Elizario, Texas hosted by Familias Triunfadoras where Bertha Aguilar, CHW, educated the community about HPV prevention and promoted vaccination.
Photos courtesy of Bertha Aguilar, Cuidate El Paso and JR, University Communications.
Two UTEP Faculty Members combine art, technology to highlight social challenges
May 2020
The worlds of art and engineering collide in an interdisciplinary collaboration between a pair of faculty members at The University of Texas at El Paso.
Nathaniel V. Robinson, assistant vice president for the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects and lecturer for civil engineering, and Angel Cabrales, assistant professor of sculpture, have combined their talents and expertise to generate dialogue about ethnicity, opportunity and social challenges while exploring the role of technology in the daily lives of Americans.
Robinson and Cabrales are collaborating on multiple projects involving interactive sculptures that engage the public as active participants in art and dialogue.
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IDRB Teams have been selected
May 2020
We are delighted to announce that eight successful IDRB Teams have been chosen for occupying the IDRB. Visit the IDRB Core Teams page to know more about each team.