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UTEP Earns NSF Grant for Student Researchers

Last Updated on August 12, 2019 at 12:00 AM

Originally published August 12, 2019

By UC Staff

UTEP Communications

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a $27,000 grant to The University of Texas at El Paso’s Wendy Francis, Ph.D., professor of psychology, who will use the funds to support students who will conduct research on bilingual language and memory processes for her ongoing NSF research grant.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a 27,000 grant to Wendy Francis, Ph.D., professor of psychology at UTEP, who will use the funds to support students who will conduct research on bilingual language and memory processes for her ongoing NSF research grant. Photo: UTEP Communications
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded a $27,000 grant to Wendy Francis, Ph.D., professor of psychology at UTEP, who will use the funds to support students who will conduct research on bilingual language and memory processes for her ongoing NSF research grant. Photo: UTEP Communications

She also will use the money to contribute to student conference presentations and manuscripts, as well as to help them complete an honors thesis.

Francis directs UTEP’s Bilingual Cognition Laboratory where faculty and student researchers investigate how bilingual experience and proficiency impact memory and spoken word retrieval. The University established the lab in 1999.  

The one-year grant starts Sept. 1, 2019.