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100 @ 100: Research for Our Next Century
Tuesday and Thursday at 8:59am

As part of the celebration of the 100th year birthday of the University of Texas at El Paso, Dr. Keith Pannell will take a look at 100 individuals on the UTEP campus who represent a broad selection of the top research faculty members.  

The series will cover the entire UTEP campus, from Chemistry to Theatre Arts, with stops in the College of Business, the College of Health Sciences, the School of Nursing, and more.  The series demonstrates the wonderful variety of active minds and imaginations of the faculty on the UTEP campus.

  • 100@100: Research for Our Next Century comes to a close with a bonus 101st episode with Roberto Osegueda, Vice President for Research at the University of…
  • This is the 100th episode of 100@100! This episode describes the research of the program's host, Keith Pannell, of the UTEP Department of Chemistry.…
  • This is episode 99 of 100@100. This episode follows the research of Tony Kruszewski of the UTEP Department of Political Science. Kruszewski is comparing…
  • The research of Elsa Villa, Co-Director of the Center for Research in Engineering & Technology Education, and Research Assistant Professor in the UTEP…
  • The research of Roger V. Gonzalez of the UTEP Department of Mechanical Engineering. Gonzalez is Director of the new Leadership Engineering Program in the…
  • The research of Benjamin C. Flores, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and former Dean of the Graduate School at UTEP. Flores is researching…
  • The research of Lorenzo Candelaria of the UTEP Department of Music. Candelaria researches litergical musicology with an emphasis on 16th century…
  • The research of Erika Mein from the UTEP College of Education, Departmetn of Teacher Education. Mein discusses the research that goes into…
  • The research of Philip C. Goodell of the UTEP Department of Geological Sciences. Goodell talks about the entrepreneurial efforts put forth in helping…
  • The research of Chintalapalle Ramana, Associate Professor in the UTEP Department of Mechanical Engineering. Ramana is researching the need for better…
  • The research of Art Duval, Professor in the UTEP Department of Mathematical Sciences. Duval is studying higher dimensions which are difficult to observe…
  • The research of Michael Zarate, Professor in the Department of Psychology at UTEP. Zarate is researching memory consolidation, which explores how ideas…
  • The research of Mary-Margaret Weigel, Professor in the Department of Public Health at UTEP. Weigel is investigating household food insecurities in…
  • The research of John Hadjimarcou, Department Chair of the UTEP Department of Marketing & Management in the College of Business. Hadjimarcou is researching…
  • The research of Jon Amastae of the UTEP Department of Languages & Linguistics. Amastae has been studying the Caribbean region of Nicaragua and their…
  • The research of Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Assistant Professor in the Department of History at UTEP. Michelle is researching priestly masculinity in…
  • The research of Norman Love, Jr., Assistant Professor, UTEP Department of Mechanical Engineering. Love is researching clean coal power. By converting…
  • The research of Eric Freudenthal, Associate Professor, UTEP Department of Computer Sciences. Freudenthal is a systems researcher who is looking into…
  • The research of Benjamin Alire Saenz, poet, novelist, and member of the UTEP Creative Writing Department. Saenz explains the research that goes into…
  • The research of Cristian Botez, Associate Professor, UTEP Department of Physics. Botez studies the crystal structure of materials and correlates their…
  • The research of Maria Duarte-Gardea, Chair of the UTEP Department of Public Health Sciences. Duarte-Gardea researches how to combine physical activity…
  • The research of Christina Sobin, Associate Professor in the UTEP Department of Psychology. Sobin is researching the effects of early, chronic, low-level…
  • The research of George Di Giovanni, Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, Center for Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Health…
  • The research of Bill Robertson, aka "Dr Skateboard," Associate Provost in the UTEP Provost's Office, and Associate Professor in the Teacher Education…
  • The research of Carl Dirk, a computational chemist with the UTEP Department of Chemistry. Dirk is working on ways to protect artwork in museums from light…
  • The research of Arshad Khan, Assistant Professor in the UTEP Department of Biological Sciences, and Director of the UTEP Systems Neuroscience Lab. Khan is…
  • The research of James Becvar, professor in the UTEP Department of Chemistry, and Co-principal Investigator for the STEM talent expansion program. Becvar…
  • The research of Kerry Doyle, Director of the Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at UTEP. Kerry discusses the use of contemporary art as a…
  • The research of Stephen Stafford, professor in the UTEP Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. Stafford is working with former NASA…
  • The research of Jose Miguel Hurtado, Jr., of the UTEP Department of Geological Sciences. Hurtado trains NASA astronauts in a field geology program. The…
  • The research of Robert Trussell, Associate Professor, Associate Dean of the UTEP College of Education. Trussell studies children with disabilities who are…
  • The research of Karine Fenelon, Assistant Professor in the UTEP Department of Biological Sciences. Fenelon studies why schizophrenics suffer from lack of…
  • The research of Kathleen Staudt, Professor of Political Science, Endowed Professor for Western Hemispheric Trade Policy Studies, UTEP Department of…
  • The research of German Rosas-Acosta, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. Rosas-Acosta studies the interactions between the…
  • The research of Melissa Colgin-Abeln, Associate Professor of Flute and Music Literature in the UTEP Department of Music. Melissa informs us of the…
  • The research of Thenral Mangadu, Assistant Professor in the UTEP College of Health Sciences, in the Deprtment of Public Health Sciences. Mangadu studies…
  • The research of John S. Wiebe, Associate Professor in the UTEP Psychology Department. Wiebe is a clinical health psychologist who is studying the…
  • The research of Ignacio Martinez from the UTEP Department of History. Martinez specializes in Colonial Latin America and the Spanish borderlands. Martinez…
  • The research of June Kan-Mitchell, Professor in the UTEP Department of Biological Sciences. Kan-Mitchell is a T-cell immunologist and is working to…
  • The research of Luis Echegoyen, professor in the Department of Chemistry. Echegoyen's research group studies how carbon materials such as C-60…
  • The research of Thomas Gill of the UTEP Department of Geological Sciences. Gill is studying dust, and has found that the tiniest speck of dust can impact…
  • The research of Anne Giangiulio, Associate Professor of Art and Graphic Design from the UTEP Department of Art. Anne has worked with Cinco Puntos Press…
  • The research of Thomas Boland from UTEP's Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering. Boland talks about his lab's efforts in printing living…
  • The research of Mark Lusk, Professor in the Department of Social Work in the UTEP College of Health Sciences. Lusk is researching the mental health of…
  • The research of Laura O'Dell, Associate Professor in the UTEP Department of Psychology, and Lead Investigator in the O'Dell Lab research group. Laura is…
  • The research of Sara Grineski, Associate Professor in the UTEP Department of the Sociology. She studies the social and environmental inequalities in…
  • The research of Barbara Zimbalist, Assistant Professor in the UTEP Department of English. She talks about researching women writers in the High and Low…
  • The research of Max Grossman, Assistant Professor of Art History, in the UTEP Department of Art. Grossman studies medieval & Renaissance Italian urban…
  • The research of Mimi Gladstein, Professor of English at the UTEP Department of English. Gladstein has been researching material for 2 forthcoming books…
  • The research of David Wittenburg, Associate Professor and Chair of the Kinesiology Department in UTEP's College of Health Sciences. Wittenburg is a former…
  • The research of Igor Almeida, Professor in the UTEP Department of Biological Sciences. Almeida is studying the parasite that causes Chagas Disease in…
  • The research of Kyung-An (Kay) Han, director of neuroscience & metabolic disorders in the UTEP Department of Biological Sciences. Kay is using a…
  • The research of Arturo Bronson, Professor in the UTEP Department of Mechanical Engineering. Bronson is studying the effects of high temperatures on…
  • The research of Jules Simon, Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Scientific Director of CSTEP (Center for Science, Technology, Ethics, and Policy).…
  • The research of Guillermina (Gina) Núñez-Mchiri, Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology. Gina talks about…
  • The research of Nathan Ashby, Associate Professor of Economics, UTEP Department of Economics & Finance. Nathan is research violent and organized crime and…
  • The research of Raymond Rumpf, Associate Professor in the UTEP Department of Engineering, and the Director of the EM Lab. Rumpf is researching…
  • The research of Diane Dosur, a geophysicist with the UTEP Department of Geological Sciences. Dosur is investigating techniques to solve environmental &…
  • The research of Larry Lesser, Professor of Mathematical Sciences at UTEP, and Interim Director of CETaL (The Center for Excellence in Teaching and…
  • The research of Ming-Ying Leung of the Department of Mathematical Sciences. Ming-Ying is analyzing and organizing biological data in order to advance…
  • The research of Ahsan R. Choudhuri, Professor and Chair of the UTEP Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also the Director of cSETR (Center for…
  • The research of Maria Amaya, Professor at the UTEP School of Nursing. Maria and the students in the Graduate Nursing Program are researching the effects…
  • The research of Hideaki Tsutsui, lighting designer and assistant professor at the Department of Theatre & Dance at the University of Texas at El Paso.…
  • The research of Dr. Arvind Singhal, the Samuel Shirley & Edna Holt Marston Endowed Professor of Communication at UTEP, the Director of the Social Justice…
  • The research of Andrea Shaheen, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Texas at El Paso's Department of Music. Andrea researches…
  • The research of Dr. Elizabeth Walsh. Liz studies the ecology & evolution of fresh water invertebrates, namely rotifers, the smallest multi-celled animal…
  • The research of Gaspare Genna, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at UTEP. Gaspare is interested in researching regional…
  • The research of Katja Michael, Associate Professor in the UTEP Department of Chemistry. Katja is researching photochemical methodology development,…
  • The research of Dr. Maceo Crenshaw Dailey from the Department of History, and Director of the UTEP African American Studies Program. Dr. Dailey talks…
  • The research of Tom Fullerton, Professor of Economics & Finance at UTEP's College of Business Administration. Fullerton studies the border economy and is…
  • The research of Craig Tweedy of the Systems Ecology Laboratory with the UTEP Department of Biological Sciences. Tweedy studies how ecosystems function and…
  • The research of Nigel Ward, professor of Computer Science at UTEP. Nigel has been studying prosody - the inflections, stresses, and intonations of speech…
  • The research of Rosa Fitzgerald, Associate Professor of Physics at UTEP. Rosa has been studying aerosols and how they affect and exist in the atmosphere.…
  • The research of Jorge Gardea-Torresdey, Dudley Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering at UTEP. He discusses the impact of…
  • The research of Vladik Kreinovich, Professor of Computer Science at UTEP. Vladik specializes in the calculation of uncertainty and predicting the accuracy…
  • The research of Charles Martin, UTEP Department of History. Martin has been researching race & ethnicity in the history of American sports, in particular,…
  • The research of Eli Greenbaum, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Genetics in the Department of Biological Sciences at UTEP. Eli has been studying how…
  • The research of Tony Stafford, UTEP Department of English. Dr. Stafford has looked into the consumption of wine by the characters in Macbeth, and why…
  • The research of Stephen Crites of the UTEP Psychology Department. Stephen studies brain function and how we activate "stereotypes" in the brain. Why do…
  • The research of Louie Saenz, KTEP's News Director and lecturer at the University of Texas at El Paso. Louie talks about the research behind his upcoming…
  • The research of Dr. Wen-Yee Lee, Associate Professor of Chemistry at UTEP. Dr. Lee, who is an analytical chemist, talks about compounds of emerging…
  • The research of Kathryn Smith-McGlynn. Kathryn is a visiting professor in the UTEP Department of Theatre & Dance, and she talks about UTEP's collaboration…
  • The research of Edward Castañeda, professor in the Department of Psychology at UTEP. Eddie talks about the plasticity of the brain, the way dopamine…
  • The research of Matthew Desing, Assistant Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature in the Department Languages & Linguistics at UTEP.…
  • The research of Soheil Nazarian, Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at UTEP, and Director of the Center for Transportation Infrastructure…
  • The research of Renato Aguilera, Professor of Biological Sciences at UTEP. Renato is looking for enzymes that can kill specific cancer cells. He is also…
  • The research of Luciana Garbayo, Assistant Professor of Philosphy at UTEP. Luciana is an MD and PhD, and she studies the philosophy of science...more…
  • The research of Aurolyn Luykx of the UTEP Department of Sociology & Anthropology. Luykx is researching endangered languages, specifically the language of…
  • The research of Dr. Stacey Sowards, Chair of the UTEP Department of Communication. Dr. Sowards has been involved in conservation and environmental…
  • The research of Oralia Loza, Assistant Professor in the UTEP Department of Public Health Sciences. Oralia is currently working on the health needs of the…
  • The research of Aaron Velasco of the UTEP Department of Geological Sciences. Velasco is studying dynamic triggering of earthquakes. It's known that large…
  • Keith Pannell welcomes Timothy Roth, A.B. Templeton Professor of Financial Management & Banking, and Chair of the Department of Economics & Finance at…
  • Keith Pannell talks with David Zubia, Associate Professor of the UTEP Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Zubia talks about improving the…
  • Keith talks with Dr. Russell Chianelli, UTEP Chemistry Professor and materials scientist. Chianelli is director of the Materials Research & Technology…
  • Keith talks with Dena Kay Jones, the Keyboard Division Coordinator for the UTEP Department of Music. Dena talks about her research into the little-known…
  • Keith talks with Josiah Heyman, chair of the UTEP Department of Sociology & Anthropology, and Endowed Professor of Border Trade Issues. Heyman talks about…
  • Keith talks with Lawrence Cohn, Professor of Psychology at UTEP. Cohn talks about his research into how people weigh evidence when making decisions. Why…
  • Keith talks with Charles Ambler, Professor of History at UTEP. Ambler's focus of research is 19th & 20th century Africa. He talks about the history of…
  • Keith talks with Ricardo Bernal of the UTEP Department of Chemistry. Bernal talks about his research into protein malfunction and his efforts to better…
  • Keith talks with Keith Erekson, Associate Professor of History at the UTEP. Erekson talks about his research into commemorations, and his role as…
  • Host Keith Pannell inaugurates the Centennial celebratory series, "100 at 100: Research for Our Next Century," which highlights research on the UTEP…