El Paso Sun City Pride held a block party on June 8 in front of Cleveland Park as part of their 7th annual pride week. Attendants were able to enjoy talent shows, art, music and food. Hundreds of attendants made their way downtown to enjoy an evening...

President Barack Obama was invited to participate in a Q&A with Tumblr, a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, about higher education—a first for the president and Tumblr community. Students around...

With only two main stages and thousands in attendance, Neon Desert Music Festival serves its fourth year of bringing live entertainment to the borderland. NDMF became a two-day event for the first time this year. The festival brought music from a variety...

While I’ve been away from The Prospector for the last semester of my undergraduate career to commit more time to my studies, I have the privilege to write a farewell column regarding the three years of my time and effort at the student-run newspaper. As...

Three years ago in May 2011, I paid the price of not dedicating enough time to school. After a terrible first year at UTEP, I was suspended for a semester and had to spend the next eight months dedicated to work full-time at a fast food restaurant. It...

Women remain underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, according to a 2013 study done by the National Science Foundation. Women make up 58.1 percent of the overall workforce in the nation, according to the...

A 2014 report titled “The Graduate Student Debt Review,” by New America Foundation, a non-partisan public policy agency, analyzed recent data by the Department of Education and revealed that much of the $1.2 trillion student debt is a result of graduate...

Estudiantes internacionales enfrentan aún mas problemas al momento de graduarse y ejercer sus carreras. Al termino de sus estudios en Estados Unidos, su tiempo dentro del país es limitado. Organizaciones dentro de UTEP como Visión México ayudan a...

Amber Morrison, senior creative writing major, devotes 10-15 hours per week researching sneakers. Huddled over a computer screen, she tries to learn everything about them. Jordan’s, Nikes, Rebok, Adidas, Asics, the list goes on. She tries to learn what...

Patience is a virtue, and the UTEP Dinner Theatre proved this to be true when they finally got the extraordinary opportunity to stage the premier of Victor Hugo’s novel “Les Misérables.” The atmosphere was filled with excitement as the audience...