Honorifics & Awards
The following awardees were recognized during the 2024 Research & Innovation Annual Research Awards Ceremony and Reception:
| Award | Name | Title/College |
|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Researcher - Distinguished Career Award | Jorge Gardea-Torresdey Ph.D. | Professor - Science |
| Outstanding Researcher - Mid-Career Award | Marianne Karplus Ph.D. | Associate Professor -Science |
| Innovation Award - Established Innovator | Raymond Rumpf Ph.D. | Professor - Engineering |
| Innovation Award - Early Career Innovator | Laura V. Alvarez Ph.D. | Assistant Professor - Science |
| Rising Researcher Award - STEM Physical Science & Engineering | Robert C. Roberts Ph.D. | Assistant Professor - Engineering |
| Rising Researcher Award - STEM Life Science & Engineering | Alexander Friedman Ph.D. | Assistant Professor - Science |
| Rising Researcher Award - Social Science, Arts, Culture & Society | Melissa Melpignano Ph.D. | Assistant Professor - Liberal Arts |
| Award PI Name | Award Title |
|---|---|
| Alvarez Rueda, Laura V | UNDERSTANDING THE PHYSICS OF TURBULENT FLOW, EROSION AND DEPOSITIONAL PATTERNS IN RIVER SYSTEMS |
| Friedman, Alexander | EXTENDING INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION IN EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE BY DEFINING THE MECHANISTIC ROLE OF STRIOSOMAL MICROCIRCUITS IN DECISION-MAKING |
| Tosh, Deepak Kumar | CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCY THROUGH ROBUST PROVENANCE AND INFORMATION SHARING |
| Award PI Name | Award Title |
|---|---|
| Macchiarella, Lindsey | EARLY MUSIC LATIN AMERICA PROJECT |
| Award PI Name | Award Title |
|---|---|
| Martinez, Ignacio | TALES FROM THE CHIHUAHUAN DESERT: BORDERLANDS NARRATIVES ABOUT IDENTITY AND BINATIONALISM |
| PI Name | Role | Section | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alejandra Castellanos | PI | Engineering | ELUCIDATING THE CARBON NANOTUBES MORPHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS EFFECT ON CRACK MITIGATION FOR BONDED UNITIZED AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES |
| Alexander Friedman | PI | Science | EXTENDING INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION IN EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE BY DEFINING THE MECHANISTIC ROLE OF STRIOSOMAL MICROCIRCUITS IN DECISION-MAKING |
| Anass Bouchnita | PI | Science | PREDICTING SEASONAL INFLUENZA HOSPITALIZATIONS USING SEMI-MECHANISTIC MODELS |
| Brandon Merritt | PI | Health Sciences | AN INTERDISCIPLINARY HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM TO ADDRESS TRANSGENDER HEALTH INEQUITY IN AN UNDERSERVED, PREDOMINANTLY LATINX COMMUNITY |
| Caitlyn Muniz | PI | Liberal Arts | RESEARCHING CASES OF CHILDREN WITH PROBLEMATIC SEXUAL BEHAVIOR |
| Cesar Tirado | PI | Engineering | DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT OF TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PLAN |
| Cristina Dominguez De Quezada | PI | LIFE EXPERIENCES OF LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES LIVING IN THE US-MEXICO BORDER | |
| David Huber | PI | Science | MECHANISMS OF FIRE-INDUCED CARBONATE FORMATION IN A COLD DESERT ECOSYSTEM |
| Deepanwita Dasgupta | PI | Liberal Arts | FELLOWSHIP FROM THE CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE |
| Eda Koculi | PI | Science | STUDIES OF RIBOSOME BIOGENESIS |
| Gabriel Frietze | PI | Collaborative Awards Across Colleges,Science,School of Pharmacy | INVESTIGATING LANGUAGE AS A BARRIER TO RAPID TESTING IN UNDERSERVED SPANISH SPEAKING HISPANIC POPULATIONS |
| Guy C Kamdem Djoko | PI | Science | MONITORING THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESISTANCE TO THE NOVEL INSECTICIDE CLOTHIANIDIN IN ANOPHELES GAMBIAE |
| Hyunjung Cheon | PI | Liberal Arts | YOUTH RESILIENCE TO CRIME AND VIOLENCE IN THE CARIBBEAN |
| Jay Chapman | PI | Science | INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL DRIVERS OF OROGENIC EPISODICITY IN THE ECUADORIAN ANDES |
| John J Bird | PI | Engineering | RAPID GEOLOCATION OF RADIO FREQUENCY EMITTERS WITH MACHINE-LEARNING |
| Jonathon Mohl | PI | Science | BACTERIAL METAL SULFIDE METABOLISM |
| Jose Hernandez-Viezcas | PI | Science | NANOSCALE MANGANESE AND IRON MICRONUTRIENTS TO INCREASE PHOTOSYNTHESIS, CROP YIELD AND ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE |
| Laura Alvarez | PI | Science | UNDERSTANDING THE PHYSICS OF TURBULENT FLOW, EROSION AND DEPOSITIONAL PATTERNS IN RIVER SYSTEMS |
| Lindsey Macchiarella | PI | Liberal Arts | EARLY MUSIC LATIN AMERICA PROJECT |
| Md N Islam | PI | Engineering,Collaborative Awards Across Colleges,Other Campus Units | CAPABILITIES DEVELOPMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO FOR HYDROGEN GENERATION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION |
| Mohammad Iqbal Bhuiyan | PI | School of Pharmacy | R01: ASTROCYTIC CASCADE IN WHITE MATTER ASTROGLIOSIS AND INJURY |
| Olga Lauter | PI | Liberal Arts | IMPROVING CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN THE ARCTIC RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS WITH THE CO-PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE FRAMEWORK |
| Palvi Aggarwal | PI | Engineering | AN AI-DRIVEN COUNSELING SYSTEM FOR UNDER-REPRESENTED TRANSFER STUDENTS |
| Rebecca Reid | PI | Liberal Arts | A SYSTEMATIC EXAMINATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES BEFORE UNITED STATES COURTS |
| Ritwik Bhattacharya | PI | Science | PREDICTION ISSUES IN PROGRESSIVELY CENSORED LIFE-TESTING EXPERIMENTS |
| Saeid Tizpaz Niari | PI | Engineering | DETECTING AND LOCALIZING NON-FUNCTIONAL VULNERABILITIES IN MACHINE LEARNING LIBRARIES |
| Sandra P Lopez Ramirez | PI | Liberal Arts | EXPERIENCING THE BOSQUE |
| Sergio Luna Fong | PI | Engineering | MODEL BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING CURRICULUM INTEGRATION |
| Soyeon Lee | PI | Liberal Arts | ASIAN/AMERICAN RHETORIC AFTER THE ATLANTA SHOOTINGS: PUBLIC MEMORY, STORYTELLING, AND TECHNOLOGIES |
| Sylvia Natividad-Diaz | PI | Engineering | 3D IN VITRO HUMAN STEM CELL-DERIVED CARDIOVASCULAR TISSUE MODEL AND MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORM FOR TARGETED PRECLINICAL DRUG SCREENING |
| Todd Curry | PI | Liberal Arts | INDIGENOUS POLITICS |
| Vanesa Mueller | PI | Health Sciences | MOBILE HEARING SCREENING KIT |
| Xiaojin Sun | PI | Business Administration | CENTER FOR RISK-BASED COMMUNITY RESILIENCE PLANNING |
| PI Name | Role | Section | Award Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Velasco | PI | Science | COMMUNITY-DRIVEN INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE AND LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES IN THE GEOSCIENCES (CIELO-G) |
| Marianne Karplus | Co-PI | Science | |
| Hugo Gutierrez-Jurado | Co-PI | Science | |
| Benjamin Brunner | Co-PI | Science | |
| Lin Ma | Co-PI | Science | |
| Ahsan Choudhuri | PI | Engineering,Collaborative Awards Across Colleges,Other Campus Units | AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE INNOVATION NETWORK FOR MANUFACTURERS |
| Ryan Wicker | Co-PI | Engineering,Collaborative Awards Across Colleges,Other Campus Units | |
| Miguel Velez-Reyes | PI | Engineering | CONSORTIUM FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN ELECTRONICS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS |
| Robert Roberts | Co-PI | Engineering | |
| David Zubia | Co-PI | Engineering | |
| Brian Schuster | Co-PI | Engineering | |
| Raymond Rumpf | Co-PI | Engineering | |
| John Wiebe | PI | Engineering,Health Sciences,Collaborative Awards Across Colleges,Liberal Arts,Other Campus Units,Science | FACULTY INSTITUTIONAL RECRUITMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE TRANSFORMATION |
| Ann Gates | Co-PI | Engineering,Health Sciences,Collaborative Awards Across Colleges,Liberal Arts,Other Campus Units,Science | |
| Michael Kenney | Co-PI | Engineering,Health Sciences,Collaborative Awards Across Colleges,Liberal Arts,Other Campus Units,Science | |
| Laura O'Dell | Co-PI | Engineering,Health Sciences,Collaborative Awards Across Colleges,Liberal Arts,Other Campus Units,Science | |
| Thenral Mangadu | Co-PI | Engineering,Health Sciences,Collaborative Awards Across Colleges,Liberal Arts,Other Campus Units,Science | |
| Guadalupe Corral | Co-PI | Engineering,Health Sciences,Collaborative Awards Across Colleges,Liberal Arts,Other Campus Units,Science | |
| Ahsan Choudhuri | PI | Engineering | DIGITAL ENGINEERING AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE SYSTEMS DESIGN CENTER AT EL PASO, AT YOUNGSTOWN, AND AT HUNTSVILLE |
| Md Mahamudur Rahman | Co-PI | Engineering | |
| Joel Quintana | Co-PI | Engineering | |
| Miguel Velez-Reyes | PI | Engineering | THE SCIENCE OF NON-RESOLVED SPACE OBJECT SIGNATURES FOR SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS |
| Hector Erives-Contreras | Co-PI | Engineering | |
| Aryzbe Najera | Co-PI | Engineering | |
| Anne-Marie Nunez | PI | Collaborative Awards Across Colleges,Other Campus Units,Science | HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTION NETWORK OPPORTUNITIES TO DEVELOP EQUITY |
| Azuri Gonzalez | Co-PI | Collaborative Awards Across Colleges,Other Campus Units,Science | |
| Amy Wagler | Co-PI | Collaborative Awards Across Colleges,Other Campus Units,Science | |
| Name | Title/College |
|---|---|
| Michael J. Kenney Ph.D. | Professor - Science |
| Craig E. Tweedie Ph.D. | Professor - Science |
| Thenral Mangadu Ph.D. | Professor - Health Sciences |
| Renato Aguilera Ph.D. | Professor - Science |
| Ryan B. Wicker Ph.D. | Professor - Engineering |
| Benjamin C. Flores Ph.D. | Professor - Engineering |
| Juliette Caire MA | Director - GEAR UP |
| Ahsan Chouduri Ph.D. | Professor - Engineering |
| Ann Q. Gates Ph.D. | Professor - Engineering |
