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Assayer of Student Opinion.

The Prospector

UTEP Professor: Vaping may be harmful

UTEP Professor: Vaping may be harmful

Oscar Avila, Reporter March 5, 2019

In 2017, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fatima Z. Alshbool, began to research the effects of e-cigarettes and vapor machines. E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that heat up nicotine-infused liquid into a breathable substance....

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Chemistry professor embarks on lung cancer research

Chemistry professor embarks on lung cancer research

Rene Delgadillo, Multimedia Editor October 30, 2017

More than 5,000 miles away from where he was born, Rachid Skouta, a chemistry research assistant professor at UTEP, is following his dreams to help fight against lung cancer. Skouta recently received more than $109,300 from the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia...

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Chagas, a parasitic disease that affects the heart, is present in West Texas.

Kissing bug carries deadly parasite

Julio Cesar Chavez, Staff Reporter September 28, 2015

A UTEP professor and two undergraduate students have published a study showing that Chagas Disease, a parasitic disease that affects the heart, is present in West Texas. The study, led by former UTEP undergraduates Munir Buhaya and Steven Galvan, along...

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Keith Pannell, chemistry professor, is the host of 100 @ 100 at KTEP.

Chemistry professor starts radio segment to showcase campus-wide research

Lorain Watters, Managing editor March 4, 2014

At 9 a.m. on a Tuesday morning, a piano trills through the stereo speakers. Sixteenth notes crescendo and fall, melting together with an English accent. Every Tuesday and Thursday, listeners of the local NPR station KTEP can hear a four-minute long...

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