Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration moved to ban artificial trans fats found in some of American’s favorite foods. So what does this mean for UTEP’s upcoming eatery? The soon-to-be-named Union cafeteria, expected to open in the fall...

The international community of experts in educational technology, known as the New Media Consortium, awarded UTEP’s Academic Technologies the 2015 Center of Excellence award. In a letter from NMC, senior director of communications, Samantha Becker,...

A play based on a prince’s uplifting journey will be coming to the UTEP Dinner Theatre. The Tony-award winning play tells the story about a heir to a throne who is on an epic search for happiness. “Pippin”will be directed by Greg Taylor, associate...

The El Paso StreetFest took place on Friday June 26 and Saturday June 27. Hosted by KLAQ, this year marked fourteen years of the festival. The StreetFest pulled in an estimated 12,000 attendees each night with headlining acts Halestorm, Young Rising Sons,...

At approximately 12:20 p.m. on June 26, Yairo Herrera and Luke Oleander became the first same-sex couple to be married in El Paso at the County Courthouse. Less than 20 minutes later, a few floors up, the second couple, Aixa Adame and Lacey Darcy,...

  For richer or for poorer, until death do they part, under the United States Constitution same-sex couples were married in El Paso, Texas.   At approximately 12:20 p.m. on June 26, Yairo Herrera and Luke Oleander became the first...

Happy Friday! I didn’t get a chance to blog last Friday because I was in the midst of a tremendous two-day visit to UT El Paso. All of our universities and health institutions contribute culturally and economically to their local communities, but...

Many animals have bones and make their presence known, but there is a whole other world of boneless, invisible to the naked eye animals that roam this Earth. A UTEP professor has researched animals that are less than a millimeter long and that needed...

According to a NAFSA (Association of International Educators) study done recently, the number of study-abroad students has grown only 2 percent nationally. In the 2012-2013 school year, the number of students applying for study-abroad programs increased...