Centers

Centers contribute to the health and impact of AI-ICER through their research and educational efforts that align with AI-ICER’s mission and major thrust areas. Centers provide critical support to researchers, students, and staff.

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Center for Inter-American and Border Studies

The Center is a focus for UTEP activities concerning Borders, Latin America, and the Caribbean. While an emphasis on our local region is interwoven through most UTEP activities, CIBS creates a central point of leadership and support for other units in academic programs, research, and outreach activities. CIBS collaborates with AI researchers and community partners in areas related to border health, economics, and other areas

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Hopper-Dean Center of Excellence for K-12 CS Education

The mission of the Hopper-Dean Center for Excellence for K-12 CS Education is to advance K-12 CS education discovery, knowledge, and practice with an emphasis on culturally- and linguistically responsive perspectives through building bridges, reimagining borders and frontiers, and enacting progress. The Institute supports AI-related curriculum and research that impacts K-12 pedagogy.

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Minority AIDS Research Center

The mission of MARC is sustainable education in basic and applied health sciences in combination with translational and clinical research leading to behavioral and technological innovation that directly leads to graduating better health practitioners and biomedical professionals while simultaneously reducing HIV/AIDS-related disparities and inequities among minority populations. MARC benefits from efforts such as knowledge capture, statistical modeling, forecasting trends, and other approaches afforded by AI technologies.

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Research, Evaluation, and Academic Center on Health Disparities), an Interdisciplinary Center of Excellence

The College of Health Sciences Research, Evaluation, and Academic Center on Health Disparities (REACHED) is an Interdisciplinary Center of Excellence with a focus on health disparities research. The Center's work is focused on four key areas: research and evaluation; education and clinical application; outreach and community engagement; and global health.

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