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UTEP Community Engagement and Research in COVID-19
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Description

This community connects UTEP faculty and professional staff who are involved in community engagement activities or research related to COVID-19.
The goal of this community is to connect and support interaction among members and related community stakeholders. The efforts of this community provide a snapshot of the various ways that UTEP is responding to COVID-19 in the community and beyond. For information on research issues related to UTEP and COVID-19 visit the ORSP website.

Aspirations

KEYWORDS

  1. Community Engagement
  2. coronavirus
  3. COVID-19
  4. pandemic

COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Professor
Liberal Arts - Sociology and Anthropology
Society, culture, anthropology, borders, migration, states, power, inequality, working classes, work, consumption, health, U.S.-Mexico border, COVID-19, applied anthropology, values and social science, human rights, immigration, border policy, water, Community-Engaged Scholarship,Community Engagement, community organizations
Featured: Awards

Associate Professor
Health Sciences - Public Health Sciences
Occupational health, Environmental health, Ergonomics, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Health Applications of GIS.
Featured: Awards

Professor
Science - Biological Sciences
Sympathetic nervous system, Neuroscience, Aging, Sympathoimmune, Central nervous system
Featured: Awards

Professor
Science - Biological Sciences
Jak/STAT signaling, T cells, immune diseases, drug development
Featured: Awards

Li, Lin
Member
Associate Professor
Science - Physics
COVID-19, computational biology, bioinformatics, biophysics, molecular biology, protein interactions, molecular motors, viral capsid assembly
Featured: Awards


Related Efforts

‘Confined’ Artists Part of Virtual Exhibit at UTEP
UTEP Related Effort
Contact: Kerry Doyle

EL PASO, Texas – With social distancing rules in place to protect the public from the spread of COVID-19, people developed their own ways to share their lives with each other. One popular method was to “meet” on adjoining balconies to perform music or to acknowledge others.

UTEP Partners with Local Health Care Professionals to Fit Test Personal Protective Equipment
UTEP Related Effort

Contact: Robert Moss, Environmental Health and Safety
The University of Texas at El Paso’s Environmental Health and Safety department (EHS) is working with local health care professionals to fit test their personal protective equipment (PPE) to ensure that they are properly protected while working amid COVID-19 patients.

Collaboration between Texas Tech and UTEP to become test sites
UTEP Related Effort
Contact: Robert Kirken

UTEP is supporting Texas Tech University and City of El Paso by seeking supply of reagent and viral media to significantly expand COVID-19 sample assessment by using our PCR research capability to identify DNA in our genetic research lab. UTEP PCR can evaluate 1,000 samples overnight.

UTEP to advise Del Sol Medical Center on workflow.
UTEP Related Effort
Contact: Robert Roberts

UTEP is supporting Del Sol Medical Center by advising on workflow to expand hospital capacity and capability.

UTEP Keck Center website
UTEP Resource
Other
Related Effort:
Requesting 3D printing of mask skeletons for N95 masks
UTEP to manufacture protective face shields for healthcare workers
Ventilator production using 3-D printing
Ryan Wicker

Our vision is for additive manufacturing (AM) technology to revive the economy through a transformation in the way products are designed and manufactured, taking advantage of distributed manufacturing and 3D multi-functional designs enabled by AM. Our mission is to lead the AM transformation through multi-disciplinary activities that include education, research, outreach, technology development and commercialization, and industrial partnerships.

UTEP Office of Environment Health & Safety website
UTEP Resource
Other
Related Effort:
Collaboration between Texas Tech and UTEP to become test sites
UTEP Partners with Local Health Care Professionals to Fit Test Personal Protective Equipment
UTEP supporting City of El Paso with COVID-19 testing
UTEP to purchase disinfection system to decontaminate and re-use N95 respirators

The Environmental Health & Safety Office was established to develop, promote and maintain a safe, healthy learning and working environment for the students, faculty, staff and visitors at the University of Texas at El Paso.

UTEP Office of Research & Sponsored Projects (ORSP) website
UTEP Resource
Other
Related Effort: Collaboration between Texas Tech and UTEP to become test sites
Roberto Osegueda

The vision of the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) is to accelerate the research and sponsored program enterprise while adhering to university policies and federal regulations.

UTEP Clinical Laboratory Science (CLS) website
UTEP Resource
Other
Related Effort: UTEP supporting City of El Paso with COVID-19 testing
Lorraine Torres

The CLS Program is committed to providing high quality educational experiences that develop knowledgeable, skillful, and ethical professionals who will fulfill leadership positions and contribute to the growth and advancement of the health care community of our US-Mexican Border and Southwest region.

DIALOG SOURCES

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