September 2009
Minerpalooza 2009
More than 25,000 Miner fans converged on the UTEP campus Friday night for Minerpalooza 2009.
UTEP and International Drug Policy Experts Seek Solutions To War on Drugs
The War on Drugs Conference will bring together policy experts and leading scholars from the U.S. and Mexico to analyze past policies and consider new options.
UTEP Sets New Fall Enrollment Record
Enrollment has reached an all-time high of 21,011 at The University of Texas at El Paso, an almost 3 percent increase over the fall 2008 figure.
Career Expo2009
Students and recent graduates from The University of Texas at El Paso who are looking for jobs.
UTEP Faculty Earn Outstanding Teaching Awards From UT System Regents
University of Texas at El Paso faculty members are receiving high marks from.
UTEP 2009 Distinguished Alumni
UTEP 2009 Gold Nuggets
UTEP Volleyball Player Crowned Miss Texas USA 2010
Kelsey Elizabeth Moore, a student-athlete at The University of Texas at El Paso, has a new role to play.
Postdoctorate Institute Attracts Students from Around the Country
About 80 doctoral students from around the country came to The University of Texas at El Paso.
NASA Awards UTEP $5 Million
The University of Texas at El Paso has been awarded a five-year, $5 million grant by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to create a Center for Space Exploration Technology Research.
October 2009
Hunt Family Foundation Donates $1 Million to UTEP
UTEP Professor Honored with Distinguished Scientist Award
UTEP Breaks Ground on $32 Million Fitness Center Expansion
UTEP Uses Scary Stories as Teaching Tool for Kids
UTEP Graduates Largest Group of Accelerated MBA Students
Transfer Scholarships Help With Transition From EPCC to UTEP
November 2009
Sam Donaldson to Announce New Multimedia Journalism Degree
UTEP Prepares El Paso for a Technical Terrorist Attack
UTEP Grant Improves Care of Older Population
Negroponte compares violence in Mexico and Central America
The Economist: "Closing the Gap," Nov. 5, 2009
"THE University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) is one of the most binational of America’s big universities".
UTEP Hosts Texas Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security
The Texas Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security will hold its quarterly meeting at The University of Texas at El Paso.
Polar Researchers Coming to UTEP to Discuss Arctic Changes
The University of Texas at El Paso will welcome a number of noted polar researchers from around the world for the International Polar Year "Back to the Future" project meeting Nov. 10-13 in the Bioscience Research Building.
UTEP Prepares El Paso for a Technical Terrorist Attack
UTEP’s Center for Defense Systems Research brought together counterterrorism experts from the U.S. and Europe to educate El Paso’s law enforcement communities and first responders about the reality of terrorism and the threat of IEDs.
Online Degree Completion Program to Launch in Spring 2010
An online program developed by The University of Texas at El Paso to help people complete their college degrees will be ready for the spring 2010 semester. While the initial goal is to reach local students who have not finished their degrees, the long-term impact could be global.
Social Networks Expert to Speak About Literacy at UTEP
The University of Texas at El Paso has invited to campus Andrea Lunsford, Ph.D., a prominent Stanford University professor whose five-year study shows that communication forms such as "texting" have little impact on academic writing.