New Program to Study Violence, Gender and Peace
By using the word “feminicide” to describe the violence perpetrated against women and girls in Juárez, Mexico, renowned Mexican anthropologist and scholar Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos created an international awareness of crimes committed with impunity against females in Latin America and Mexico.
UTEP Undergraduates Shine at State Capitol
Undergraduate researchers Lauren Chacon, a junior kinesiology major, and Gilbert Carranza, a senior electrical engineering major, represented UTEP at the 2017 Texas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol.
UTEP to Launch Groundbreaking STEMGrow Program
Students at The University of Texas at El Paso are talented, asset rich and ready to succeed in the classroom, world of work and the global community.
New Center to Expand Opportunities for UTEP Arts Students
Walk down the music side of the Fox Fine Arts Center and you're bound to hear beautiful sounds coming from the practice rooms.
Do One Thing: UTEP Works to Promote Student Safety
Campus safety is something The University of Texas at El Paso takes very seriously, and it starts with the campus community.
Researcher Devotes Decades to Ants, Discovers 134 New Species
You probably pass by them regularly and don’t pay much attention, but for William Mackay, Ph.D., ants are a fascination that unlock many mysteries in our ecosystems.
Teacher Job Fair
Friday, April 21 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
More than 80 school districts from the El Paso area, Texas, Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington state will participate in the College of Education’s Teacher Job Fair.
Anything Goes
Various performances April 21-May 7
In this Cole Porter classic, when the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention get tossed out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course of true love ... proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, an exotic disguise and some good old fashioned blackmail!
2017 Honors Convocation
Sunday, April 23, 2 p.m.
Celebrate the distinguished achievements of UTEP students and faculty during the 2017 Honors Convocation.
Lecturer to Discuss Migration and the Right Wing
Wednesday, April 26, 3-4:30 p.m.
Carlos Sandoval Garcia, Ph.D., a visiting professor and research scholar from the Institute of Social Investigations at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose, will speak about how migration has become the banner of the right wing.
Medea
April 28, 29, May 4-6 at 7:30 p.m.
April 30, May 7 at 2:30 p.m.
Hate is a bottomless cup; and I will pour and pour… When Medea met Jason on the Isle of Colchis, she knew there was nothing she would not do to win the hero’s love. To be at his side, she fled her home and left her people behind.
FloraFEST 2017
Saturday, April 29, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday, April 30, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
FloraFEST is the annual fundraiser for the maintenance and operation of the Chihuahuan Desert Gardens and is the largest sale of its kind in the region.
2017 AAPG Grant-In-Aid Recipients
Graduate geological sciences students Andre Llanos and Kate Grisi have been awarded research funds through the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Grant-In-Aid program.
UTEP Students Receive Multiple Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Awards
Students from The University of Texas at El Paso attended the 2017 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association (TIPA) conference in Dallas, Texas on March 30- April 1 and brought home multiple accolades for their work on The Prospector student newspaper and Minero Magazine, UTEP’s biannual student magazine.
UTEP President Named One of Fortune Magazine’s Top 50 World Leaders
Fortune Magazine published its 2017 list of the World’s Greatest Leaders and University of Texas at El Paso President Diana Natalicio is included on the list of 50.
Study Focuses on Officer-Citizen Interactions
Jeffrey Rojek, Ph.D., associate director of UTEP’s Center for Law and Human Behavior and associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, is leading a two-year study on officer-citizen interactions and de-escalation of force.
UTEP Photo Earns Top Design at Cyber Conference
Angelica Marquez, a freshman computer science major, won best photo design at the recent Women in Cyber Security (WiCyS) Conference in Tucson, Arizona.
College of Education Awarded NSF Grant to Study Texas Teacher Labor Market and STEM Academies
UTEP College of Education faculty members David S. Knight, Ph.D.; Stephen Kotok, Ph.D., and David J. Carrejo, Ph.D. received a $589,407 grant from the National Science Foundation to assess the impact of Texas science, technology, engineering and mathematics (T-STEM) academies on students’ learning environments, educational outcomes and career path decisions.
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