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Honorific awards comprise prestigious recognitions, fellowships, and memberships in national honor societies and national academies that acknowledge the outstanding contributions and achievements of faculty members in their respective fields. These awards can also be internal, conferred by Research & Innovation, recognizing their impact across UTEP’s research enterprise.
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| 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 |