Always working on new ways to advance faculty careers, UTEP’s Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) created the “JumpStart Your Research” program two years ago to provide valuable assistance with research. Each spring and fall semester since then, ambitious members of the UTEP family have leapt at the chance to elevate themselves professionally. To date, 71 faculty and staff members have graduated from the program.

“JumpStart began in the spring of 2011 as a semester-long program for faculty interested in honing their proposal writing and planning skills,” said Andrea Tirres, interdisciplinary network manager at ORSP. Fall 2012 JumpStart Your Research Program participants included Ellen Dengler, health sciences; Katherine Mortimer, education; Stanley Mubako, Center for Environmental Resource Management; Amanda Nahm, science; Jacquelyn Navarrete, health sciences; Yok Fong Paat, health sciences; Andrea Shaheen, liberal arts; Daniel Tillman, education; Larry Valero, liberal arts; Miguel Velez-Reyes, engineering; Natalia Villanueva Rosales, engineering; and Huiyan Yang, science.