El Paso’s surrealist sculptor, Ho Baron, has been creating art since 1980. He’s made more than 100 cement and bronze sculptures throughout his life; with other pieces like doll-parts mobiles, smaller sculptures, and drawings of El Paso scenes fill...

UTEP is one of 17 higher education institutions selected to join a nationwide effort to diversify newsrooms through a new $6.5 million NBCUniversal News Group initiative.  Over the course of two years, UTEP’s Department of Education will receive...

Editor’s Note: Quotes from Karla Muñoz and Eréndira Guerrero were translated from Spanish to English.  Karla Muñoz, a 41-year-old entrepreneur from Ciudad Juárez, never thought she’d be making teddy bears for a living.   The...

From learning new hobbies to maintaining friendships remotely, the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the way people interact. For Rhiannon Trujillo, a UTEP junior majoring in electrical engineering, forming and keeping friendships during quarantine  has...

Isidro Torres’s commitment to professional and personal growth led him through his years at UTEP as an organizational and corporate communication student. Now, the same level of commitment to helping others grow, is leading him through his new...

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to create levels of distress across the world, its obstacles have managed to trickle down to personal levels, like the ones couples waiting out the pandemic together experience. However, experts believe maintaining a...

UTEP has received another shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, according to an email sent by President Heather Wilson on Tuesday.  Wilson said the University will be able to vaccinate about 1,000 more high-risk students, faculty and staff...

The UTEP Career Center is set to host its 2021 virtual spring fair at 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., Feb. 5.  According to an email sent by the department, 75 companies and organizations will be recruiting students from a variety of majors for internships...

UTEP began administering the first doses of its 975 Pfizer vaccines on Friday, Jan. 22 and Saturday, Jan. 23, to high-risk students, staff and those working in medical environments.   UTEP President Heather Wilson regarded the University’s...

On Saturday, Jan. 23, the Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR) and members of the New Ellis Island Policy Group led a more than 100 car caravan throughout El Paso, in support of inclusive immigration reform and humane border policies. The caravan...

In an email sent out to the UTEP community, President Heather Wilson announced the University’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic is rescheduled for Friday, Jan. 22 and Saturday, Jan. 23 following a delivery delay.   The first delivery of vaccines, which...

UTEP is set to assist with COVID-19 vaccination efforts in El Paso by serving as a COVID-19 vaccine provider as early as the week of Jan.18.   According to a campus wide email sent out by UTEP President Heather Wilson, the Texas Department of State...