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Entrepreneurship Community of Practice -- Roshelly Paliza

Name: 
Roshelly Paliza
Address: 
500 W University Ave, El Paso, TX 79968
Latitude: 
31.7678473
Longitude: 
-106.5058402
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Entrepreneurship Community of Practice -- Felipa Solis

Name: 
Felipa Solis
Institution: 
El Paso Herald-Post Bio
Address: 
6557 N Mesa St, El Paso, TX 79912
Latitude: 
31.8330654
Longitude: 
-106.5396114
Brief Bio: 
Felipa is a graduate of the University of Texas at El Paso with a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts, and continues to volunteer with organizations throughout the community including the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, the Plaza Classic Film Festival and the El Paso Humane Society. Along with the El Paso Community Foundation, her family has established the Mickey Solis Scholarship Fund for students at Jefferson High School in honor of her late husband. She has been named the Humanitarian of the year by the League of United Latin American Citizens for 2014. Felipa Solis is also a voting member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association . Her love of the arts was instilled early on as her father, the late choreographer Antonio Triana took Felipa to soundstages while growing up in Hollywood, California. Her 24 year old son Gabriel, is a graduate Magna Cum Laude of Loyola University in Chicago. He is preparing to launch his studies for a Master’s Degree at the University of Texas at El Paso.
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Description

UTEP’s Entrepreneurship Community of Practice (ECoP) is composed of educators, practitioners, and innovators advancing entrepreneurship education, startup company formation, intellectual property management, and/or research. The ECoP works to track, unify, and promote entrepreneurship endeavors and resources on campus, such as courses, workshops, programming, and centers. The ECoP seeks to leverage the entrepreneurial capabilities in research, education, and commercialization and cross-promote resources.

Aspirations

The Entrepreneurship Community of Practice aspires to enrich educational experiences related to entrepreneurship and to more generally contribute to a regional culture of innovation. The ECoP will clearly articulate UTEP’s vision of entrepreneurship to connect local, national, and international industry and institutions with campus expertise. The UTEP Entrepreneurship Community of Practice aspires to: 1. Lead and Unify, Across the Community - Be the “One-Stop-Shop” for leadership, information, support, services, education and funding focused on Joint Research, Education, and Development in the arenas of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. 2. Furnish End-to-End, Persistent Infrastructure - Create, operate, and evolve a support infrastructure that guides and assists research faculty and students from end-to-end in ideation, through development, to commercialization of Intellectual Property, that results in new business creation, licensing opportunities, and enhanced follow-on research/funding opportunities. 3. Develop and Recommend Facilitating Policy - Embody its best practices and developments in written policy that is embrace, espoused, articulated, funded and developed by our President, her administration, and the campus at large, and 4. Inform and Advise form a position of unique Expertise - Inform the local Administration and campus community, local and regional business community, and ultimately the national governmental/business forum on finer aspects of Entrepreneurship and Innovation that are unique to the border region encompassed and influenced by the University.

KEYWORDS

  1. Commercialization
  2. Entrepreneurship
  3. Innovation

COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Assistant Professor of Instruction
Liberal Arts - Music
Russian Music, Early Music, Musical Modernism, 19th-Century Music, 20th-century Music, Alexander Scriabin, Early Music Performance, Western Classical Music, Music History, Viola da Gamba, Recorder
Featured: Awards

Assistant Professor
Science - Physics
Computational physics, Phase stability and thermodynamics, Machine learning, Data science, Atomistic simulations of materials, Density Functional Theory
Featured: Awards

Associate Professor
Science - Biological Sciences
SUMO, SUMOylation, Ubiquitin-like Modifiers, Cancer, Chemotherapeutic enhancers, Post-translational Modification, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Influenza A Virus (IAV), Virology, Baculovirus, Papillomavirus
Featured: Awards

Assistant Professor
Engineering - Electrical and Computer Engineering
flexible power transmission systems, power system economics, power system reliability and resilience, power system optimization, renewable energy for protecting the healthy environment, artificial intelligence, data analytics, high-performance computing
Featured: Awards

Professor
Education - Teacher Education
Humanistic STEM, Empathy, Defiance, Online Teacher Professional Development, Philosophy of Science, Engineering Education, Computer Science Education, Learning Engineering, Learning Sciences, Religion and Science, SNA, Mixed Methods, Systematic Review, Meta-synthesis
Featured: Awards

MEMBERS FROM PARTNER INSTITUTIONS

Dalby, Michael  (View)
UTEP
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Kumar, Vinod  (View)

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Paliza, Roshelly  (View)
The University of Texas at El Paso
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Solis, Felipa  (View)
El Paso Herald-Post Bio
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Related Efforts

Center for Hispanic Entrepreneurship
UTEP Related Effort
Contact: Denisse Olivas

The Center for Hispanic Entrepreneurship (CFHE) at UTEP is a research entity within COBA whose mission is to generate and disseminate innovative information on Hispanic Entrepreneurship to further enhance economic development in the El Paso del Norte Region. The goal of the center is to focus on assisting the development of Hispanic businesses, provide the necessary information and training, and support the business community of professionals, students, and scholars.

UTEP Office of Technology Commercialization
UTEP Related Effort

UTEP’s Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) manages UTEP’s intellectual property and facilitates the transfer of technologies into commercial products. OTC works closely with UTEP innovators to evaluate patentable inventions, and develop patent prosecution strategies for complex portfolios of inventions. Through marketing campaigns and outreach programs, OTC identifies potential licensees and start-up opportunities to promote UTEP intellectual property to industry.

Center for Entrepreneurial Geosciences
External Related Effort

The CEG aspires to become a nationally and globally significant Center for the development of entrepreneurial leadership in mineral and energy exploration, as measured by student output and longer term success, educational quality, industry participation, and research and development contributions to the field.

Center for Arts Entrepreneurship
External Related Effort
Contact: Steve Wilson

Under the leadership of Steve Wilson, chair of the Department of Music, and Zuill Bailey, Grammy Award winning cellist and artistic director, the Center for Arts Entrepreneurship (CAE), has been designed to prepare music and other creative arts students for successful careers in the 21st century. Students will engage in projects and workshops geared toward resume enhancement, creating digital portfolios, audience development, and performance opportunities.

Medical Center of the Americas
UTEP Resource
Service

MCA is creating a world class medical center within the MCA Campus in south central El Paso, Texas along with a regional biomedical industry that will foster and accelerate innovation, creating new employment opportunities. The Cardwell Collaborative is a “tech park” in one building, bringing together researchers, students and private industry – along with a state-of-the art, highly configurable infrastructure to create biomedical innovations.

Hub of Human Innovation
Service

The Hub is an EL Paso technology incubator that provides:
Lean Start-up + Business Model Canvas Approach
Business Model Development
Business Plan Assessment + Gap Analysis
Market Research Training + Support
The Hub of Human Innovation is the host of One Million Cups El Paso (1MC) every Wednesday at 9am.

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