Faculty Grants
2024-2025 False Eye of the Beholder: Public Opinion on Deep Fakes and Pornography. Funded by the Career Enhancement Award by the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at El Paso [$4,950]. Co-Principal Investigator: Amanda Goodson and Melissa Baker.
2022-2024 “Designing a Forensic Evidence Collection Training Based on Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Markers and Emergency Department Nurses’ Experiences.” Funded by the Society of Trauma Nurses and International Association of Forensic Nurses [$20,000]. Principal Investigator: Melissa A. Wholeben, Co-Investigators: Gloria Salazar, Amanda Goodson, and Hyunjung Cheon.
2023 - 2025 Co-Principal Investigator " Phoenix Police Department's Early Intervention System SMART Policing Project " Funded by the Phoenix Police Department/Bureau of Justice Assistance [$125,000]. PI: charles M Katz; Co-PIs: Hyunjung Cheon and Danielle Wallace.
2022 - 2024 Co-Principal Investigator "Youth Resilience to Violence and Crime in Caribbean" Funded by DAI Corp./US. Agency for International Development (USAID ) [$400,000] PI: Charles M. Katz; Co-Pi Hyunjung Cheon.
2022 - 2023 Child Sexual Abuse Data Analysis. Principal Investigator: Caitlyn Muniz. Funded by Children's Advocacy Center of Texas. $82,304.
2021 - 2024 Toward a Model for Meaningful Family Engagement and Support Within Correctional Settings. Principal Investigator: Melinda Tasca. Funded by Arnold Ventures through the University of CA-Irvine. $115,106.
2021 - 2024 Innovations in Reentry Initiative: Building System Capacity and Testing Strategies to Reduce Recidivism. Principal Investigator: El Paso County; Lead Evaluator: Leanne Alarid. Funded by Bureau of Justice Assistance 2020-CZ-BX-0040. $971,640 (UTEP Subcontract $99,954).
2020 - 2023 The sources and consequences of prison violence. Principal Investigators: Nancy Rodriguez; Natasha Frost, Jillian Turanovic, Daniel H. Butler, and Melinda Tasca. Co-investigators: Susan Turner; Kai Zheng. Funded by Arnold Ventures. $2,712,673.
2020 - 2021 Interviewee Decision-making about Sharing Information in Response to Uncertainty about Interviewer Knowledge. Principal Investigator: Misty Duke. Funded by Federal Bureau of Investigation, Professional Services Acquisition Unit. $144,107.
2020 - 2021 Evaluation of Security and Strategic Trade Management Academy. Principal Investigator: Victor Manjarrez. Co-PI: Mario Cano. Funded by University of Houston (lead institution), through US Department of State, $712,166. (UTEP Subcontract $34,114).
2019-2022 Crime and Victimization on the U.S.-Mexico border: A Comparison of Legal Residents, Illegal Residents and Native- Born Citizens in El Paso Texas. Jennifer Eno Louden PI and Theodore R. Curry, Co-PI . Funded by National Institute of Justice. $532,000.
2018 An Examination of Prosecutors’ Decision Making. Principal Investigator: Mario Cano, . Funded by UTEP University Research Institute. $5,000
