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Enhance your research expertise through various professional development opportunities offered by Research & Innovation. These programs, led by internal staff, consultants, and subject matter experts, include workshops, training sessions, one-on-one coaching, and webinars focused on funding strategies, proposal development, and research impact.
Research Development also curates opportunities featuring external agencies such as the NIH, NSF, and DoD offering a selection of topics to equip faculty and staff with the best tools and resources to advance research and secure funding success.
For additional information, contact researchdev@utep.edu.
Practical Skills. Targeted Learning. Research Success.
Miner Power Hour delivers short, focused sessions designed to strengthen your research skills, expand your funding opportunities, and connect you with key UTEP resources. Each session offers actionable takeaways you can apply immediately, helping you navigate the research landscape with confidence and efficiency.
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| 1/1/2011 to 9/10/2026 | Build Better Budgets & Nail Pre-Award Prep | 9/9/2026 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | IDRB 2.204 | Details | RSVP |
| 1/1/2011 to 10/1/2026 | Turn Reviewer Feedback into Funding Success | 9/30/2026 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Virtual | Details | RSVP |
| 1/1/2011 to 10/15/2026 | Boost Rigor with NIH ARRIVE Guidelines | 10/14/2026 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | IDRB 2.204 | Details | RSVP |
| 1/1/2011 to 11/12/2026 | Broader Impacts: Build Stronger Community Partnerships | 11/11/2026 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | IDRB 2.204 | Details | RSVP |
| 1/1/2011 to 1/14/2027 | Proposal Storytelling Workshop: Narrative Framing with Dr. Lucía Durá | 1/13/2027 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | IDRB 2.204 | Details | TBD |
| 1/1/2011 to 2/11/2027 | Translate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Expertise for External Partners | 2/10/2027 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | IDRB 2.204 | Details | TBD |
| 1/1/2011 to 3/11/2027 | Mastering Experimental Design | 3/10/2027 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | IDRB 2.204 | Details | TBD |
| 1/1/2011 to 4/15/2027 | Frame the Narrative of Your Proposal | 4/14/2027 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | IDRB 2.204 | Details | TBD |
| 1/1/2011 to 5/13/2027 | Strengthen Your Proposal with Smart Evaluation | 5/12/2027 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | IDRB 2.204 | Details | TBD |
Research & Innovation (R&I) is committed to supporting Early Career Faculty in pursuing NSF CAREER Awards through targeted workshops and consultations. This series provides comprehensive guidance on proposal development, including writing education plans, rewrites, external review preparation, and submission strategies. Faculty will gain valuable insights from expert-led sessions and collaborative opportunities designed to strengthen the competitiveness of their proposals and support the advancement of their academic careers.
Registration is open. Reserve your spot today, as space is limited. Register
To learn more about Early Career Opportunities, Early Career Faculty Support.
*Some sessions are designed for personalized, one-on-one engagement and do not require RSVP.
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Insights + Impact, supported by R&I, connects UTEP faculty with experts in research funding and proposal development. Each session delivers clear strategies you can apply immediately to strengthen competitiveness and expand your funding portfolio.
Registration is open. Register today, as space is limited. Register
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| 1/1/2011 to 9/24/2026 | Create Your Unicorn Career | 9/23/2026 | 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM | IDRB 2.204 | Details | RSVP |
| 1/1/2011 to 10/9/2026 | Impact Collective: Connecting with the City of El Paso | 10/8/2026 | 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, El Paso Branc | Details | TBD |
| 1/1/2011 to 10/10/2026 | Winning Research Instrumentation and Equipment Funding | 10/9/2026 | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM | IDRB 2.204 | Details | RSVP |
| 1/1/2011 to 10/30/2026 | Translating Your Research into Broader Impacts: A Day with Susan Renoe | 10/29/2026 | 8:45 AM - 5:00 PM | IDRB 2.204 | Details | RSVP |
Bring focused learning to your faculty group. R&I will tailor the examples, format, and level of discussion to the decision, skill, or outcome your group needs.
Request the session at least 4 weeks before the preferred date whenever possible.
Share discipline-specific examples, sponsor requirements, or active challenges that will make the experience more relevant.
Expect availability to vary by topic, facilitator, format, and time of year. Related requests may be combined when a shared session improves the experience.
Request a SessionChoose the outcome that matters now. Each session can be adapted to the requesting group's experience level, discipline, sponsor context, and current needs.
Best for: Faculty at any career stage seeking grants, fellowships, awards, collaborators, or a more focused funding pipeline.
You'll leave with: A saved search strategy, tailored alerts, and a stronger researcher profile.
Bring: A laptop and a general description of your research interests or project idea.
Best for: Faculty testing an idea, advancing scholarship or creative work, or building evidence for external funding.
You'll leave with: A clearer match between your goal and available internal programs, plus practical positioning strategies.
Bring: Questions and an idea you may wish to pursue.
Best for: Early-career faculty establishing a funding trajectory and established investigators expanding or diversifying a portfolio.
You'll leave with: A preliminary roadmap connecting research goals, sponsors, partnerships, public value, and next actions.
Bring: A research agenda, current project idea, or list of near-term goals.
Best for: Faculty evaluating or preparing to respond to a federal, foundation, or other funding opportunity.
You'll leave with: An annotated opportunity and a planning map of sponsor priorities, requirements, review criteria, risks, and decisions.
Bring: An active or prospective funding announcement.
Best for: Faculty preparing proposals or seeking a stronger understanding of budget development and pre-award requirements.
You'll leave with: A working budget foundation and a clearer view of institutional processes and available support.
Bring: A laptop and, if available, a funding opportunity or project concept.
Best for: Faculty revising a proposal or using prior feedback to strengthen future submissions.
You'll leave with: A prioritized revision plan that addresses reviewer concerns and improves proposal competitiveness.
Bring: Reviewer comments, summary statements, panel feedback, or proposal reviews.
Best for: Faculty developing sponsored projects with expectations for societal benefit, education, workforce development, or engagement.
You'll leave with: A stronger impact strategy aligned with sponsor priorities, UTEP resources, and meaningful outcomes.
Bring: A project or proposal idea.
Best for: Faculty pursuing community-engaged research, public scholarship, outreach, or broader impacts.
You'll leave with: A practical approach to identifying partners, shaping mutual benefit, and integrating engagement into a project.
Bring: A project idea, creative activity, or community challenge.
Best for: Faculty interested in industry, nonprofit, government, or community collaboration and commercialization.
You'll leave with: A concise value proposition and clearer pathways for partnership or use.
Bring: A project, method, discovery, creative asset, or area of expertise.
Best for: Faculty engaged in international, restricted, or technology-focused research involving travel, equipment, software, data, or technical information.
You'll leave with: A practical understanding of potential export-control triggers and when to seek institutional review.
Bring: A brief description of relevant travel, collaboration, technology, data, equipment, software, or materials.
Best for: Faculty conducting sponsored research, working internationally, hosting visitors, or traveling abroad for research.
You'll leave with: Greater clarity about research-security expectations, disclosures, foreign affiliations, screening, and available support.
Bring: Questions about affiliations, collaborations, travel, disclosures, or sponsor requirements.
Best for: Faculty, principal investigators, laboratory directors, and center leaders planning to host a visitor.
You'll leave with: A framework for screening, access, host responsibilities, and required steps before, during, and after a visit.
Bring: A description of a current or planned visitor.
Best for: Faculty developing or maintaining relationships with international universities, governments, laboratories, companies, or scholars.
You'll leave with: A clearer view of disclosure, sponsor, access, affiliation, and research-security considerations.
Bring: A description of an international collaborator or proposed partnership.
Best for: Faculty traveling internationally for research, fieldwork, conferences, collaborations, consulting, or other University activities.
You'll leave with: A practical travel checklist covering approvals, cybersecurity, devices, data, equipment, and destination-specific requirements.
Bring: Details of planned travel, if available.
Best for: Faculty pursuing or conducting federally sponsored research, particularly with the U.S. Department of Defense or U.S. Department of Energy.
You'll leave with: The ability to recognize CUI language, understand safeguarding expectations, and engage UTEP before submission.
Bring: A solicitation, award document, or project description, if available.
Best for: Faculty interested in University service, research oversight, or deeper knowledge of compliance review.
You'll leave with: A clearer understanding of IACUC, IRB, and IBC roles, commitments, training, and professional value.
Bring: Questions about service and areas of compliance interest.
Best for: Faculty preparing animal-use submissions or strengthening their protocol-development process.
You'll leave with: A clearer, more complete submission with fewer avoidable omissions and inconsistencies.
Bring: A draft protocol, project summary, or animal-study concept.
Best for: Faculty conducting research involving biological agents, recombinant or synthetic nucleic acids, or related biosafety oversight.
You'll leave with: A more complete submission informed by required training, documents, and common review issues.
Bring: A project summary involving biological materials or biosafety oversight.
Best for: Faculty planning human-subject research or seeking to improve future submissions.
You'll leave with: A clearer protocol that describes procedures and participant protections consistently and completely.
Bring: A study concept, draft protocol, or research plan.
Best for: Faculty with an active IACUC, IBC, or IRB submission, including those supervising protocol revisions.
You'll leave with: A complete point-by-point response and a consistent plan for revising related sections and documents.
Bring: Reviewer comments or an active protocol requiring revision.
Best for: Faculty planning human-subject research or advising students and research teams on study design.
You'll leave with: A clearer understanding of exempt, expedited, and full-board pathways and the factors that shape an IRB determination.
Bring: A brief description of a proposed human-subject study.
Best for: Faculty conducting approved human-subject research or supervising staff and students.
You'll leave with: Clarity about reportable events, deviations, changes, potential noncompliance, and when prior approval is required.
Bring: Questions about an approved study or planned change.
Best for: Faculty designing studies involving adults, minors, impaired decision-making, deception, or incomplete disclosure.
You'll leave with: A stronger consent process that addresses permission, assent, representatives, waivers, and documentation.
Bring: A consent form, study description, or recruitment plan.
Best for: Faculty responsible for studies that require continuing IRB oversight.
You'll leave with: A timely, complete continuing-review submission and a clearer distinction from other post-approval actions.
Bring: Information about an active study approaching continuing review.
Best for: Faculty and research teams conducting animal research or using LARC services.
You'll leave with: Greater confidence interpreting notifications, determining required action, and responding on time.
Bring: Examples of notifications, if available.
Best for: Faculty, laboratory directors, and personnel who purchase or work with biological agents.
You'll leave with: A clear view of required approvals, documentation, purchasing steps, and potential delay points.
Bring: Information about a planned purchase.
Best for: Faculty responsible for approved research activities subject to post-approval verification.
You'll leave with: A practical understanding of the review, relevant records and practices, follow-up, and educational support.
Bring: Questions about approved activities or documentation.
Best for: Faculty, staff, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students planning research, assessment, evaluation, or feedback collection.
You'll leave with: A stronger survey foundation with clearer items, appropriate response options, and fewer common design problems.
Bring: A survey idea, draft questions, or a project goal.
Best for: Faculty developing research, education, outreach, community-engaged, or creative projects requiring evaluation.
You'll leave with: A practical framework connecting goals, outcomes, logic, indicators, measures, and sponsor expectations.
Bring: A project or proposal idea, if available.
Best for: Faculty developing medical technologies, healthcare innovations, or research with commercial potential.
You'll leave with: A clearer view of device classification, submission pathways, quality systems, and post-market responsibilities.
Bring: Contact loyacenter@utep.edu with a brief description of your technology.
Best for: Faculty exploring the commercial potential of a discovery, method, or technology.
You'll leave with: A business-model foundation that connects value, customers, revenue, and investor or partner expectations.
Bring: Contact loyacenter@utep.edu with a brief description of your idea.
Best for: Faculty pursuing corporate partnerships, industry funding, licensing, or applied collaboration.
You'll leave with: A sharper pitch that connects technical milestones with organizational value, scalability, and competitive advantage.
Bring: Contact loyacenter@utep.edu with your partnership goal or project idea.
Best for: Faculty advisors, mentors, and educators supporting student-led ventures.
You'll leave with: A framework for guiding business models and pitches while protecting academic integrity, intellectual property, and equity.
Bring: Contact loyacenter@utep.edu with your mentoring context.
Best for: Faculty developing physical products, devices, hardware, or other proof-of-concept technologies.
You'll leave with: A practical path to minimum viable products, iterative testing, makerspaces, and technical validation.
Bring: Contact loyacenter@utep.edu with a description of your concept.
Best for: Faculty evaluating the commercial potential and market position of their research.
You'll leave with: A framework for competitor research, market sizing, target users, and the most promising application opportunities.
Bring: Contact loyacenter@utep.edu with a description of your innovation.
A workshop is valuable only when it changes the next decision or action. R&I can connect faculty with consultations, resources, collaborators, and specialized offices that help move the work forward.
Choose the session closest to the decision or obstacle in front of you. Bring an active idea, opportunity, draft, review, protocol, or partnership question whenever possible. Identify the next action before you leave and ask R&I where continued support is available.
Request sessions around a shared faculty need, sponsor opportunity, or strategic priority. Reinforce why the experience matters and who will benefit most. Pair the session with follow-up, peer examples, or leadership expectations that support action.
Program availability, facilitators, formats, dates, and locations are subject to change. Specialized sessions may require additional planning or consultation before confirmation.
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researchdev@utep.edu