Dr. Lee joined the Department of Chemistry in 2003. She has taught more than 10 different undergraduate and graduate level courses, and supervised more than 40 UG and GR students Her research is on the analysis of organic pollutants and their impacts on the environment and human health, and organic metabolites in urine for cancer diagnosis.

• Research Sandpit - Water Track - UTEP (08/25/2023)
• U.S.-Mexico Faculty Collaboration Fellowship 2023-2024 - UTEP (06/01/2023-06/30/2023)
• Faculty Development Leave - UTEP (01/01/2022-01/31/2022)
• UTEP BUILDing SCHOLARS Mentorship Award - UTEP BUILDing SCHOLARS (12/01/2021-12/31/2021)
• 2016 Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) Fellow award supported by ORSP and the Office of the Provost - UTEP ORSP and the Office of the Provost (12/01/2015-12/31/2015)
• REU Chemistry Leadership Group Mentor Travel Support - NSF (03/01/2011-03/31/2011)
• COACh Travel Award - NSF COACh (03/01/2010-03/31/2010)
• College of Science Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching - College of Science (05/01/2009-05/31/2009)
• Travel Award for Advisors/Undergraduate Education Program - Society of Toxicology (SOT) (03/01/2008-03/31/2008)
• LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Program) Scholar Travel Award - 231st ACS National Meetings (03/01/2006-03/31/2006)
• Advance Travel Award - 2005 Faculty Horizons Workshop (07/01/2005-07/31/2005)
• COACh Travel Award - 229th ACS National Meetings (03/01/2005-03/31/2005)
• COACh Travel Award - 228th ACS National Meetings (08/01/2004-08/31/2004)
• North American Minority Students and Mentors in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Program (11/01/2003-11/30/2003)

• Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (2002)
• Ph D in Environmental Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso (2000)
• MS in Chemistry, The University of Texas at El Paso (1995)
• BA in Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University (1985)

• Investigating the effects of storage conditions on urinary volatilomes for their reliability in disease diagnosis American Journal of Clinical and Experimental Urology 11 6 (2023), Kiana Holbrook, Sabur Badmos, Ahsan Habib, Elizabeth Noriega Landa, George Quaye, Michael Pokojovy, Xiaogang Su, Wen-Yee Lee.
• Rapid, Efficient, and Green Analytical Technique for Determination of Fluorotelomer Alcohol in Water by Stir Bar Sorptive Extraction Chemosphere 338 (2023), Ahsan Habib, Elizabeth Noriega Landa, Kiana L. Holbrook, William S. Walker, Wen-Yee Lee.
• Antimicrobial Peptides in Dendrobium officinale: Genomic Parameters, Peptide Structures and Gene Expression Patterns The plant Genome 16 3 (2023), Huiming Huang, Wen-Yee Lee, Hui Zou, Haiming Li, Shuhe Zhang, Jiangbo Lin.
• A double-edged effect of manganese-doped graphene quantum dots on salt-stressed Capsicum annuum L. Science of The Total Environment 844 (2022), Yuqing Ye, Elizabeth Noriega Landa, Jesus M. Cantu, Jose A. Hernandez Viezcas, Aruna Narayanan, Wen-Yee Lee, Sreeprasad T. Sreenivasan, Jorge Gardea-Torresdey.
• Comparison of Various Supervised Learning Algorithms for Prostate Cancer Prediction AMS Fall Central Sectional Meeting (2022), George E. Quaye, Xiaogang Su, Wen-Yee Lee.

• ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR DETECTION OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES AND THEIR EFFECTS ON HEALTH (2023), Volume Chihuahua, Mexico, Wen-Yee Lee.
• Does storage conditions affect the use of urine metabolomics in cancer diagnosis? (2023), Volume El Paso, TX, Kiana Holbrook, Sabur Badmos, Elizabeth Noriega Landa , George E. Quaye, Michael Pokojovy, Xiaogang Su, Wen-Yee Lee.
• Fatty acid biomarkers in urine for prostate cancer diagnosis (2023), Volume El Paso, TX, Elizabeth Noriega Landa , Sabur Badmos, Kiana Holbrook, George E. Quaye, Xiaogang Su, Wen-Yee Lee.
• Green Analytical Techniques for Determination of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Precursors in Water (2023), Volume El Paso, TX, Ahsan Habib, Wen-Yee Lee.
• Removal of Nonylphenol from water using Activated Carbon-Alginate (AlgC) beads (2023), Volume El Paso, TX, Angelica A. Chacon, Wen-Yee Lee.

• G-RISE at the University of Texas at El Paso
• U-RISE at the University of Texas at El Paso
• Utilizing Machine Learning for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis in Hispanic Patients
• Border Biomedical Research Center- Research Project 2
• RISE Research Scholars Program
• R25: RISE OPTION IV: RESEARCH SCHOLARS PROGRAM