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UTEP is a Tier 1 Research University!

A poster announcing UTEPs new achievement on being a Tier 1 Research University

The University of Texas at El Paso has achieved a research milestone — elevation to the R1 top tier level in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. This designation is reserved for doctoral universities with the highest levels of research activity.

UTEP is one of only 130 (4.5%) top tier universities among the 2,883 four-year higher education institutions across the U.S. to earn this prestigious R1 distinction, joining the ranks of such universities as Stanford, M.I.T., Michigan, California-Berkeley and UT Austin.

Learn more at www.utep.edu/r1. #UTEPR1

FEATURED NEWS


UTEP Research Assistant Professor Selected for Summer Fellowship in Tanzania

A research assistant professor at The University of Texas at El Paso will strengthen curriculum and ties to African institutions of higher learning through a fellowship that will take him to Tanzania in summer 2019.

UTEP Physics Professor to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Nature Journal for Mentoring in Science

A UTEP professor's momentous year will close with a monumental honor. Jorge A. Lopez, Ph.D., the Schumaker Professor in The University of Texas at El Paso's Department of Physics, has been named a recipient of the lifetime achievement in mentoring award as part of the 2018 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science.

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