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2024 APO Student Awards
Leah April - BS Geophysics | Angie Cano - BS Geological Sciences | |||
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The Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences is excited to announce that Leah April and Angie Cano are this year’s APO Student Award recipients! The APO Student Award recognizes academically high achieving students who go above and beyond in service to their department and the greater UTEP community. |
UTEP Researchers Win Inaugural Award to Support Lithium Extraction Technology
A group of researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso are behind an emerging lithium extraction technology that won the inaugural Hill Prize from the Texas Academies of Medicine, Engineering, Science and Technology on Monday. The $500,000 prize will support a joint research effort by Alma Energy and UTEP to extract lithium from hydrothermal waters. From left: Eva Deemer, Ph.D, and Benjamin Brunner, Ph.D., celebrate receiving the Hill Prize along with Dr. Hermann Lebit and Natalya Kharitonova of Alma Energy. Credit: The University of Texas at El Paso. Read More
DEERS Students Trip to the Texas Hydro Geo Workshop
Last week, Dr. Mark Engle and a number of Undergrad and Graduate students took a trip to the Texas Hydro Geo Workshop in Boerne, Texas. During the workshop students learned about caves and karst geology and they also participated in hands-on modules on environmental drilling, subsurface CO2 monitoring, field GIS, environmental geophysical methods and more. If you would like to find out more about the Texas Hydro Geo Workshop, please visit their site here.