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From left, UTEP Assistant Professor Jeannie Concha, Ph.D.; Sandra Gonzalez, EPDA executive director; Terry Sanchez, EPDA diabetes nurse educator; and Daniel Montes, Southwest University co-director of the Diesel and Automotive Programs, celebrate the opening of the Diabetes Garage on Aug. 2, 2018. With support from a $324,800 grant, Concha will implement the program in El Paso and in two other Texas cities by 2021. Photo: Laura Trejo / UTEP Communications

UTEP Awarded Grant to Expand Men’s Diabetes Program

The Diabetes Garage, a men’s diabetes management and self-care program, will offer men in Texas who have the disease the gift of health to last a lifetime.

Arshad Khan, Ph.D., left, associate professor of biological sciences and director of The University of Texas at El Paso Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, stands with Andrew Poulos, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at the University of Albany in New York, in this April 2019 photo in Albany, New York. Photo: Courtesy

UTEP Research to Map Conditioned Fear Responses in Brain Circuits

A partnership between researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso and the University at Albany (UAlbany) in New York will attempt to understand how neural circuits that encode learned responses to fear develop in mammalian brains.

UTEP Educator’s Video Promotes STEM Education

A faculty member with The University of Texas at El Paso helped create a video that is part of a weeklong National Science Foundation (NSF) video showcase of innovative strategies to enhance STEM education.

Kelvin Cheu, Ph.D., center, professor of civil engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso, stands in the main concourse of El Paso International Airport with his undergraduate student researchers, Sarah Ponce de Leon, left, and Emiliano Ruiz. Cheu has worked for the last six months to improve airport checkpoints as the lead investigator of an operations research and systems analysis project conducted by the Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency (CAOE) at Arizona State University, a DHS Center of Excellence. The work is being conducted as part of a $3.85 million grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate. The amount represents the first-year value of a 10-year award. Photo: J.R. Hernandez / UTEP Communications

UTEP Civil Engineering Professor, Student Researchers Help Improve Airport Checkpoints

Ruey (Kelvin) Cheu, Ph.D., sees opportunity where others might see encumbrance. The professor in the Department of Civil Engineering is actively working to improve airport checkpoints as the lead investigator of an operations research and systems analysis project conducted by the Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency (CAOE) at Arizona State University, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Center of Excellence.

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