Russell Chianelli, Ph.D., a professor and research faculty member at The University of Texas at El Paso who holds more than 60 U.S. patents, has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow. Chianelli is the first UTEP professor to be named an NAI Fellow. The honor was announced Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in recognition of Chianelli’s “highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.” He will be inducted into the NAI with 147 others on April 11, 2019, during a ceremony at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston.