Teresa M. Anchondo, a student in the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences (IHS) Ph.D. program at The University of Texas at El Paso, has spent the last four years mapping out "food deserts" in El Paso County.

UTEP faculty and students will soon be journeying to the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico – not for a vacation, but to collaborate with researchers from around the country on serious health issues like leukemia, tuberculosis and Chagas disease.

The University of Texas at El Paso offers Gator Camp as part of its fall orientation program to encourage new students to make their mark on campus as a handful of undergraduates did 60 years ago this month.

Rehearsals are under way for this year's production of A Christmas Carol, the celebrated play based on Charles Dickens' timeless novel featuring Ebeneezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and some ghostly visitors who teach what the season is truly about.

Close to 20 children are willingly gathered around tables, concentrating hard to answer questions, figure out problems, and fill out worksheets, despite the fact that it's after school hours.