UTEP graduate and longtime staff member Marcela Luna understands the changes made to the two main entrances to campus along University Avenue will take some getting used to, but it's part of the ambitious “UTEP On The Move” campus transformation plan that will create a safer, more attractive environment.

Always working on new ways to advance faculty careers, UTEP’s Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) created the “JumpStart Your Research” program two years ago to provide valuable assistance with research. Each spring and fall semester since then, ambitious members of the UTEP family have leapt at the chance to elevate themselves professionally. To date, 71 faculty and staff members have graduated from the program.

Like a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, UTEP’s Mourat Tchoshanov, Sc.D., spent part of his fall 2010 Fulbright fellowship planting ideas of research collaborations and academic exchanges between his employer and his host, Kazan Federal University in Tatarstan, Russia.

A list of more than 200 prioritized rail, road and interchange, and port of entry (POE) projects for the El Paso–Mexico border region was released Jan. 10 at a public information meeting held on The University of Texas at El Paso campus

While taking part in a clinical rotation in a hospital emergency room last fall, Lia Davalos, a nurse practitioner student in UTEP’s School of Nursing, faced life and death situations almost every day.

Kathryn Smith-McGlynn has accomplished quite a lot on campus this academic year as an assistant professor and co-founder of the Frontera Repertory Theatre Company in partnership with UTEP. And she still found the time to guest star in the ABC Family television series “The Lying Game.”