UPDATE: Vote to select president postponed The UT System Board of Regents have interviewed potential candidates to become UTEP’s newest president and succeed current president Diana Natalicio. The board will convene on Monday, March 4 and vote...

In a world dominated by males, one female artist is creating waves of change in black and white throughout the Sun City. Christin Apodaca, 29, born and raised in El Paso, attended Burgess High School before starting her degree at UTEP. She would go...

Patrick Gabaldon is an attorney and a local artist in El Paso, better known for his colorful paintings about El Paso desert areas and the cartoon drawings of former congressman Beto O’Rourke and U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar. In 2016, Gabaldon started...

The Rubin Center for the Visual Arts is hosting “A Piece of Our Mind,” an exhibit that showcases the poster works of graphic artists Joe Scorsone and Alice Drueding. “Most of our work focuses on sociopolitical and environmental topics. “Sometimes...

El Paso Inc. awarded Director of the Annunciation House Ruben Garcia the Community Spirit award, and former Congressman Beto O’Rourke the El Pasoan of the Year award Tuesday, Feb. 19, at its annual El Pasoan of the Year luncheon at the Centennial Club...

The Interdisciplinary Research Building (IDRB), located behind the Undergraduate Learning Center (UGLC) and bumping against Sun Bowl Drive, is currently on schedule due to a lack of setbacks, according to UTEP officials. “I know that other buildings...

People from El Paso came together to celebrate Black History Month at a parade that started on the corner of Montana Street and Pershing Street on Saturday, Feb. 23. People followed the parade as it made its way to Mary Webb Park in order to start...

El Pasoans gathered to silently march for the communities against Donald Trump and the declaration of war. The march took place at San Jacinto Plaza in downtown El Paso, Saturday, Feb. 23. Over 200 people participated in the march which started at San...

President Dr. Diana Natalicio has 450 UTEP T-shirts. She and the university decided to honor her 30 years at the helm by displaying her personal collection of T-shirts in an exhibit called “My Tenure in T-shirts” on the second floor of the Union East...

UTEP Professor Igor C. Almeida, Ph.D., is leading an almost 30-year research project that aims to discover a better treatment, as well as a vaccine, for Chagas disease. Chagas disease, named after the Brazilian physician Carlos Chagas, who discovered...

Two faculty members in UTEP’s Creative Writing Department were inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters (TIL), a nonprofit honor society that recognizes and celebrates literature in Texas: Associate Professor Rosa Alcala, Ph.D., and Assistant Professor...

Associate Professor of Social Work Eva Moya, Ph.D., recently achieved a great accomplishment in her career. She was elected president of the Association of Latina/Latino Social Work Educators (ALLSWE) in November 2018. Over the course of her career,...