The Border Biomedical Research Center (BRRC) conducts research with the goal to address cancer-related health disparities that the Mexican American population faces.   The BBRC started working on finding a project to focus on a year before...

UTEP launched its search for a new provost on October.   The newly formed search committee met for the first time on Friday, Oct. 18, to discuss the details of the search process.  The search committee is led by Chairman Gary Edens, vice...

The many ways Día de los Muertos and Halloween are celebrated in El Paso reflect the dual culture of citizens near the U.S.-Mexico border.  To get a taste of how the holidays are celebrated, students and faculty on campus explained how...

Benjamin Reyes, 36, began working as a substitute teacher for the El Paso Independent School District in December of 2018. What sets Reyes apart from most teachers is the way that Reyes identifies in regard to gender.   Reyes identifies as nonbinary,...

FABENS, TEXAS — Just 10 miles away from El Paso lies Fabens, Texas, a town of about 8,250 living individuals, not including the spirits that are said to roam the streets and buildings of the 91-year-old town.  Such is the case for the town’s Fire...

The Senate Select Committee on Mass Violence Prevention and Community Safety held a hearing at UTEP’s Natural Gas Conference Center to address mass violence prevention and the safety of the community Monday Oct. 21.   The hearing comes nearly...

Founding members of the Texas House LGBTQ Caucus hosted their first Town Hall meeting at El Paso Thursday, Oct. 17, at UTEP’s Union Cinema, to discuss political engagement, equality and the progress the caucus continually makes to increase representation...

A common stereotype many imagine when entering college is the nightlife of shot-gunning tall boys, finishing off kegs and downing shot after shot at the local bars and clubs, but for some students at UTEP, their attitude toward alcohol has...

The environmental organization Eco El Paso presented its 12th annual “Pollution & Solutions” conference to give local professionals in enterprises such as planning, engineering, architecture and construction an opportunity to learn from...

As the popularity of dating apps continues to increase, Business Insider expects these apps to reach more than 25 million users per month. Tinder, for example, had 57 million users globally, with 35 percent of them being between the ages of 18 to...

Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, and Carol Ann Browne, senior director of communications and external relations at Microsoft and El Paso native, held the Centennial Lecture “Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age” Monday,...

Editor's note: Alberto's last name was omitted in order to preserve his identity. Alberto, a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant, works seven days a week begging for money and cleaning windshields in El Paso, primarily so his elderly mother in Ciudad...