UTEP sophomore runner Michael Saruni set the No. 2 NCAA all-time mark in the 800m race with a 1:45.19 finish at the Texas Tech Invitational Saturday afternoon in Lubbock. “Saruni had another outstanding performance and puts himself in a class of...

DJ Carnage is coming back to the Sun City for the second round of Rare Fest on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, at the El Paso County Coliseum. From opening act to headlining his own Rare Fest shows in Orlando, NorCal, San Bernardino, and El Paso, the road to...

UTEP staff, students, and faculty wore all black Friday night at the Union East gallery to stand with the nation-wide Time's Up movement and discuss the next step forward. Time's Up is a movement against sexual harassment founded on January 1, 2018,...

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama, the Broadway musical “A Chorus Line” is coming to the Dinner Theater on Friday, Jan. 26. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1975 with the stories of the thousands...

The UTEP women’s basketball team will be back on the road for the first time since Jan. 7, as they face Rice on Jan. 26 and North Texas on Jan. 28. The Owls (14-3, 4-1 C-USA) are undefeated at home this season (6-0) and have outscored their last...

On Saturday, Jan. 20, the Centennial Museum held an opening reception for the exhibit “Aliento a Tequila,” a series of photographs by Joel Salcido. The exhibition narrates Salcido’s expedition about the making of tequila in the state of Jalisco,...

About eight months away from the 2018 football season, C-USA officials released the full 2018 fall football schedule. The Miners will open up their season at home against Northern Arizona, followed by non-conference games at UNLV and Tennessee, followed...

   Choosing a hobby as a full-time job is a dream many want to pursue, Babak Tavakoli-Nejad, a junior at UTEP, is doing exactly that. Majoring in studio art with a focus on painting, he is slowly gaining recognition from his chalk artwork at various...

Most nights at the Briar Patch, one of El Paso’s hottest gay bars, you can find people dancing on the patio, socializing and drinking. But once a month there’s a different mood at Briar’s, as openly gay attorneys join together to advocate for lesbian,...

  Editor’s note: The Prospector got a chance to sit down with new UTEP Athletic Director Jim Senter and have him talk with us about all he has to bring to UTEP. Check out what he told us here and listen to the full podcast interview on The Prospector...

The three-day-old government shutdown ended after the Senate and the House agreed on a temporary bill which is expected to fund the government through Feb. 8. The Senate approved a short-term spending bill on Monday that opened the federal government...

In a sea of signs and "pussy hats," hundreds women and allies commemorated the one-year anniversary of the nationwide Women's March on Sunday, Jan. 21. This year organizers of the El Paso March wanted to turn last year's "Hear our Voice" message into...