Awards and Recognition

UTEP employs more than 1,300 full-and part-time faculty members. Faculty awards and recognitions highlight faculty who demonstrate excellent community engagement, teaching, research and service.

Provost's Faculty Fellows

The Provost's Faculty Fellows Program is an initiative to increase faculty involvement and expertise in key university frameworks while simultaneously providing those selected with positive development, leadership, and networking opportunities. Making use of an asset-based approach, this initiative maximizes local resources and expands the collective impact of the University mission.

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UT Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards (ROTA)

Since 2008, the University of Texas System Board of Regents has annually recognized exemplary educators from every UT institution with a Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. The awards honor extraordinary classroom performance and innovation in undergraduate instruction.
2020 Award Recipients:

• Jessica Slade, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Instruction, Teacher Education

• Chuan Xiao, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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President’s Community Engaged Scholarship Award

The President’s Community Engaged Scholarship Award honors a faculty member who has employed the academic resources of the University to address important public problems and contribute to the public good, and who has disseminated the results of that work in scholarly venues.
2019 Award Recipients:

• Eva Moya, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Work

2019 Award Nominees:

• Josiah Heyman, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology
• Thenral Mangadu, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences
• Rosa Maldonado, D.Sc., Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
• Ahmed El-Gendy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics

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Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award

The Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award is made possible by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation, and offers faculty members the opportunity to receive $5,000 for superior teaching at the college level. The foundation distributes ten awards to professors from Texas colleges and universities.
2016 Award Recipients:

• Lawrence M. Lesser, Professor of Mathematical Sciences

2012 Award Recipients:

• Jorge L. Gardea-Torresday, Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science

2010 Award Recipients:

• Lawrence Eugene Murr, Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

2009 Award Recipients:

• James E. Becvar, Professor of Chemistry

2006 Award Recipients:

• Stephen W. Stafford, Professor of Metallurgical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering

2003 Award Recipients:

• Kathleen A. Staudt, Professor of Political Science
• Nancy Marcus, Professor of Mathematical Sciences

2000 Award Recipients:

• Patricia Ainsa, Professor of Education

1995 Award Recipients:

• William Doyle Smith, Professor of Economics and Finance

1980 Award Recipients:

• Joan Phelan Quarm, Professor of English

1971 Award Recipients:

• Charles Leland Sonnichsen, Professor of English

1970 Award Recipients:

• Clyde R. Nichols, Professor of Engineering

1966 Award Recipients:

• Anton H. Berkman, Professor of Biological Sciences

1961 Award Recipients:

• Cecil C. Crawford, Professor of Philosophy

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