This Spring semester has shown the highest spring enrollment yet, according to University Communications. The campus has seen a 3.6 percent increase compared to the 2017 Spring semester, with the total population at 23,606, which is the highest increase...

UTEP’s African-American Studies Program and the Black Student Union are kicking off a lecture series with guest lecturer Angela Davis at 6:30 p.m. this Wednesday at the Undergraduate Learning Center building, room 126.  Davis is an activist, author,...

UTEP received a $1.1 million grant to create a supporting organization for mental health professionals and students around the area. The center, called Empower Change: The Paso del Norte Center for Mental and Emotional Well-being, will provide a wide...

Sir Fraser Stoddart, Nobel laureate and professor of chemistry at Northwestern University, visited UTEP on Thursday afternoon to give a lecture as part of the Centennial Lecture Series. Stoddart spoke on his research, accomplishments, and how to be...

A new UTEP program is trying to break the barriers between student victims of crimes and the available resources they can use to overcome a possible trauma. In August of last year, Texas Governor Gregg Abbot’s Criminal Justice Division awarded a one-year...

For Jerome Tilghman, winning the election for the 16th Congressional District seat is not as important as educating citizens about the impact the government has on citizens’ lives. But that does not mean that the retired Army major and current middle...

The UTEP Centennial Lecture Series returns with a free public lecture on Feb. 1, with Sir Fraser Stoddart, a Nobel laureate and professor of chemistry at Northwestern University. Stoddart won Nobel Prize in Chemistry in December 2016, along with Jean-Pierre...

UTEP staff, students, and faculty wore all black Friday night at the Union East gallery to stand with the nation-wide Time's Up movement and discuss the next step forward. Time's Up is a movement against sexual harassment founded on January 1, 2018,...

Most nights at the Briar Patch, one of El Paso’s hottest gay bars, you can find people dancing on the patio, socializing and drinking. But once a month there’s a different mood at Briar’s, as openly gay attorneys join together to advocate for lesbian,...

As Representative Beto O’Rourke runs after Ted Cruz’s seat, the 16th Congressional District is up for grabs. At the same time, the Trump administration has spurred many to run for office with the hope of turning the state blue, or at least purple....

The three-day-old government shutdown ended after the Senate and the House agreed on a temporary bill which is expected to fund the government through Feb. 8. The Senate approved a short-term spending bill on Monday that opened the federal government...

In a sea of signs and "pussy hats," hundreds women and allies commemorated the one-year anniversary of the nationwide Women's March on Sunday, Jan. 21. This year organizers of the El Paso March wanted to turn last year's "Hear our Voice" message into...