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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

Mukhopadhyay, Somnath
Member
Professor
Business Administration - Marketing, Management, and Supply Chain
COVID-19 forecasting, Business Forecasting, Operations and Supply Chain Models, LP Classifiers, Neural Network, Bayesian Analysis

Ordaz, Maria
Member
Staff
Science - Science (College of)
Research Development, Research Initiatives, Science, Funding, Biomedical Research, Grant-writing, Project/Center Grants.

Osegueda, Roberto
Member
Professor
Engineering - Civil Engineering
TBA
Featured: Awards

Ouellet, Hugues
Member
Associate Professor
Science - Biological Sciences
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, heme, cytochrome P450, enzymology, protein biochemistry, molecular biology, spectroscopy, COVID-19
Featured: Awards

Robbins, Leslie
Member
Professor
College of Nursing - Nursing
Behavioral Health, Addictive Disorders, TBI, MCI, Emotional Intelligence,
Featured: Awards


Related Efforts

UTEP to support Kelly Center for Hunger Relief
UTEP Related Effort
Contact: Gregory Schober

UTEP is supporting Kelly Center for Hunger Relief, a local food pantry, by providing specific items for the food pantry and assisting in Web development for a donation site.

UTEP Faculty Group: El Paso Health Sciences and Policy Research Group
UTEP Related Effort
Contact: Josiah Heyman

The focus of the group is to identify the networks that they will tap into to offer support to the community, especially disadvantaged populations.

Pressure-based ventilator design
UTEP Related Effort
Contact: Thomas Boland

UTEP in collaboration with UT Health Science Center at Houston, has designed a ventilator for ICU use, which is pressure based. The design of the device can get fast FDA clearance, and is being published to make it open source for people to replicate.

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
Resource Link

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
Resource Link

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
Resource Link

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
Resource Link

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

I3 Move Communities provide a way to share expertise, resources, and community information to the general public. There are numerous tools available, both open source and proprietary, for engaging in dialog and sharing information and knowledge within a closed group.

This community engages in dialog as follows:
Microsoft Teams
Link: Microsoft Teams