Dr. Villanueva is dedicated to advancing knowledge, research, practice, and education in nursing. Her research focuses on population health, specifically in underserved LatinX communities, and how language intersects with social determinants of health.

• University Research Institute Grant Recipient - UTEP Research and Innovation (03/01/2025-03/31/2025)
• Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society Delta Kappa Grant Recipient - Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society Delta Kappa Chapter (02/01/2025-02/28/2025)
• Leadership Succession Chair - Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society Delta Kappa Chapter (01/01/2024-12/31/2024)
• 2024-2025 Steps Toward Advancing Research (STAR) @ UTEP Program Fellow - The University of Texas at El Paso (11/15/2024)
• NIH Summer Course Clinical and Translational Research Fellow - National Institute of Health, Office of Clinical Research Education & Collaboration Outreach (07/08/2024)
• UTEP inSPIRE Servingness Inagaural Participant - UTEP inSPIRE (11/01/2023-11/30/2023)
• Faculty Excellence Award - Student Government Association, TTUHSC-El Paso (05/01/2022-05/31/2022)

• Application of Mixed Methods Research, The University of Alabama at Birmingham (2024)
• Online Teaching and Learning, New Mexico State University (2020)
• Ph D in Curriculum and Instruction, New Mexico State University (2015)
• MSN in Nursing Education, The University of Texas at El Paso (2013)
• M.Ed in Education, Stephen F. Austin State University (2007)
• BSN in Nursing, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (2003)
• BA in Spanish, Texas Tech University (2001)

• Faculty Reflections on Implementing Servingness into Research and Teaching: How Professional Development Around Servingness Foster Latinx Student Success Journal of Latinos and Education (2024), Christina Convertino, Robyn K. Pinilla, Camila Leite Madeira, Lori M. Houghtalen, Robert M. Pankow, Lizette Villanueva, Jaeyoung Cho, Jeffrey Olimpo, Elena Bitner.
• Social determinants of health and college persistence in accelerated undergraduate nursing students. Nursing Education Perspectives (2024), Lizette Villanueva.
• Dual-role nurse interpreter perceptions of language barriers and Spanish-speaking patients: A qualitative study Nurse Open (2023), Lizette Villanueva.
• From the Bedside to the Boardroom: Imposter Syndrome in Nursing Leadership Nurse Leader (2022), Karen Fowler, Lizette Villanueva, .

• Elevating Student Success through Collaboration and Innovation (2024), Volume El Paso TX, Christina Convertino, Robyn K. Pinilla, Camila Leite Madeira, Lizette Villanueva, Jaeyoung Cho.
• Nurse Educators as a STEM Profession (2024), Lizette Villanueva.
• Engaging with the construct of servingness in HSI: How faculty implement servingness in research and teaching to support student success (2024), Christina Convertino, Jaeyoung Cho, Isaac Frausto Hernandez, Lori M. Houghtalen, Camila Leite Madeira, Robyn K. Pinilla, Lizette Villanueva.

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