After the Apollo moon landing in the 60s, space enthusiasts set their eyes on the next target: Mars. But four decades of unsuccessful human landings has pushed back the estimated landing date. For one UTEP student, the year 2030 could not come fast enough. Hired...

Patricia Flores, doctoral student in rhetoric and composition studies, recently defended her dissertation this past Monday, Oct. 31, in which she associates yoga to an increase in interpersonal communication. According to Flores, besides health benefits...

Editor’s note: This is the second part of a three-part series on efforts being made to save the Union Plaza neighborhood.  The El Paso Historic Landmark Commission met again on Monday, Nov. 7 to hear both city officials and residents from the Union...

In anticipation for the 2016 election, the UTEP residence life, the office of student life, and the department of political science are in collaboration to host a presidential election watch party. The event will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 8 in the...

    La presidenta de UTEP, Diana Natalicio, acaba de firmar junto al gobernador de Durango, José Rosas Aispuro, un documento en el cual se concuerda los estudiantes provenientes de Durango podrán acceder a becas por parte del gobierno...

  The balloons and confetti that once lit up a birthday party, turned into black attire with white roses that decorated three caskets a year ago. Only three days before her birthday, Karyna Mendoza woke up to a call at 4:30 a.m. saying that her...

On Thursday, Nov. 4, President Diana Natalicio and the Governor of Durango, Mexico, Jose Rosas Aispuro, Ph.D, along with his fellow delegation, will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish partnership between the government of Durango and...

El Paso broke its early voting record on Wednesday, Nov. 2, and it appears it will continue to grow when early voting ends this Friday. Throughout the past 10 days, 115,000 votes were cast during early voting as of 1 p.m Wednesday. This broke the record...

UTEP women’s basketball has achieved a level of success that ranks it near the top of all teams—male and female—at UTEP. The team was a runner-up in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament in 2014. During the tournament’s final four games,...

Editor’s note: This is the first part of a three-part series on the Save the Union Plaza efforts. The quotes from Salvador Ortiz have been translated from Spanish. Just south of the Chihuahuas’ Southwest University Park and the Union Plaza bar scene...

Within a week, the next president of the United States will be announced, and in the state of Texas, El Paso is breaking records in voter turnout in the first days of early voting. Early voting started Monday, Oct. 17, and as of Sunday almost 91,000...

As part of homecoming week, various student organizations took part in the RSO olympics, a week filled with different competitive events. The arcade tournament took place at the Union on October 28th. Students played games that varied from Pandora to...