In true zero to hero fashion, Ben Gallegos will prove a lot of his former K-12 teachers wrong when he walks across the stage to earn his Master of Education degree during The University of Texas at El Paso's afternoon Commencement ceremony Dec. 15.

By 2014, the Brazilian government will have given out some 101,000 fellowships to Brazilian students, postdoctoral researchers and senior investigators to study the sciences at the best universities and research centers around the world, including The University of Texas at El Paso.

About 90 K-12 administrators from schools throughout El Paso got a University-sized pat on the back for their role in preparing students to go to college.

Melanie and Jose Mora and their 9-year-old son, Kaii, are huge UTEP Miner fans.

Ana Schwartz, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at The University of Texas at El Paso, received a fairly routine surgery in August to remove pre-cancerous tissue. However, an error during surgery, undetected at the time, caused her abdomen to fill with infection.