The TIAA-CREF Institute announced March 4 that Diana Natalicio, president of The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), is the winner of the 2013 TIAA-CREF Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence. The institute bestowed this honor at the American Council on Education’s (ACE) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Work is expected to begin next week on Wiggins Plaza, another of the Campus Transformation projects that will make the campus more picturesque and pedestrian friendly.

Water shortage is a serious issue in the Southwest United States and in many places across the world – more than 1.5 billion people will be living in regions with water scarcity by 2025 according to the United Nations.

Just into her second semester as a University of Texas at El Paso electrical engineering student, Roya Edalatpour pulled off an incredible feat: she earned a special invitation to attend the White House Tech Inclusion Summit this past January.

On Feb. 20, a group of ambitious UTEP professors gathered for the first-ever orientation presented for Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) Enhancement Program grant recipients. As part of UTEP’s Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP), the IDR Program has now provided three opportunities for faculty and staff to propose new projects that harness expertise from a range of disciplines, thus fostering greater collaboration across departments and colleges.

A five-year effort to improve and expand the knowledge and skills of teachers who work with English Language Learners has started at The University of Texas at El Paso, and the hope is that the information gathered through this program will transform ELL instruction throughout the country.