MGREP’s important mission focuses on identifying, forming, and supporting UCI and Mexico faculty contributions to collaborative cross-disciplinary scholarship. Aiming to develop substantiated solutions to US-Mexico problems. While MGREP’s focus is on STEM related research, our translational work influences/impacts natural and physical sciences, biomedicine, engineering, social and behavioral sciences, the arts, and humanities. The underlining of our team-based cross-disciplinary partnership work aims the specific contributions to collaborative scholarship to community practice and public policy. Noteworthy, UCI is strongly committed to creating an academic climate that facilitates and rewards faculty contributions to collaborative scholarship with Mexico partner institutions. Toward this goal, we encourage candidates for merit and promotion reviews to identify their specific contributions to collaborative scholarship and/or translation to community practice and public policy.