While President Donald Trump plans to construct a wall between Mexico and America’s border, he has also begun to talk about breaking down the walls between church and state. The Johnson Amendment has been recently questioned and there is talk about...

New York Times best-selling author, Harvard graduate, Emmy-nominated television anchor, early Facebook marketing manager and current media mogul, Randi Zuckerberg, will be speaking on campus at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 21, at the Undergraduate Learning Center,...

Seven hundred miles away from her birthplace, associate professor of statistics, Amy Wagler, found the city and university she now calls home. Wagler has taught at UTEP for more than eight years.  She earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics at...

During the fiscal year 2015, UTEP had one incident of rape and one incident of fondling (touching the private parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification without the consent of the victim), according to the campus’ 2016 Annual Security...

The Texas legislature meets every two years, and the current   85th Texas Legislative session began on Jan. 10 and continues until May 29. During the first 60 days, the legislators cannot pass a bill, so at the moment the bills will be deliberated over...

Donald Trump campaigned on putting up a “big beautiful wall” between the border of Mexico and the United States. On Jan. 25, President Trump started the process to begin construction with an executive order called “Border Security and Immigration...

For the third consecutive year, UTEP will offer free tax assistance through the Coalition for Family Economic Progress. GECU, IRS, EPISD and the El Paso Collaborative among others partnered with UTEP to prepare basic tax returns for families with a combined...

Students can find new scholarship opportunities through ScholarMine, an online portal created by the Office of Scholarships at UTEP. “We are using (ScholarMine) to help promote all of the scholarship opportunities that we know about, that we hear...

While President Trump signed an executive order to move forward on a wall, the Rio Grande at the U.S./Mexico border was open for hundreds of families reunited Saturday, Jan. 28, for the third annual #HugsNotWalls event, hosted by the Border Network...

UTEP and El Paso Times hosted a legislative forum featuring El Paso state representatives with Zahira Torres as the moderator on Friday, Jan. 27, at the Union Cinema at Union East. Representatives Joe Moody, Mary Gonzalez, Joe Pickett, Cesar Blanco...

Texas state representative Tony Tinderholt introduced the Abolition of Abortion in Texas Act earlier this month. This bill that would eliminate all abortions, including those caused by rape and incest and allow for women who have the procedure and the...

President Donald Trump ordered the construction of a wall dividing the U.S. and Mexico border on Wednesday, Jan. 25, among other executive orders under his border and trade policies. The news did not sit well with El Pasoan and U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke,...