A UTEP professor has been elected to the highest leadership position of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific organization. Luis Echegoyen, Ph.D., a research professor and the Robert A. Welch Chair in The University of Texas at El Paso’s chemistry department, will begin a three-year term during which he will be responsible for the development of a set of goals with corresponding tasks and events while serving as the society’s primary representative.