When one first sees Didi Lopez walking or standing, it’s easy to assume she is not living with a disability. But after an hour, Lopez said, her walk starts to look different. “My disability isn’t ...
El Paso native Abeni Merriweather has become the youngest composer for major music publishing company Carl Fischer Music Company. “Everyone that does music obviously knows who Carl Fischer is. … It’s one of the most ...
Just weeks before Helen Bonds graduated from El Paso Community College, she was unsure if she’d be able to reach that milestone because she was short on money and had already exhausted her financial aid. ...
As the city of El Paso continues to see a decrease in COVID-19 cases, there is renewed attention towards diabetes and alcohol addiction within the local community. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a large number ...
In March 2019, Michael Gutierrez was one of the nearly 60 students who stood outside the Union building on the University of Texas at El Paso campus to protest the appointment of then-UTEP president finalist ...
Next month, Texas Tech University Heath Sciences Center will welcome its inaugural class into the Woody L. Hunt School of Dental Medicine. The dental school will be the first of its kind in a border ...
More than 90 medical school students are one step closer to donning their white doctor coats after graduating from Texas Tech University of Health and Science Center on Friday at the Plaza Theatre. The in-person ...
The only thing that interrupted the sounds of laughter on Saturday in the Almaguer backyard was the sizzle of a grill and the sound of music as relatives and friends celebrated a family milestone. Victoria ...
In a celebration unique to El Paso’s border culture and the University of Texas at El Paso, more than 8,000 college graduates last week marked the school’s first in-person commencement since 2019 and the first ...
More than 70 El Paso Community College graduates were welcomed into the nursing profession Thursday during a rite-of-passage ceremony that dates back to the 19th century. The event, called a pinning ceremony, is an internationally ...
The University of Texas at El Paso graduation ceremony is only a couple of days away and senior Sydney Nixon doesn’t know what she wants to do with her life after she walks across the ...
After more than a year of remote learning and virtual or long-distance celebrations, most El Paso higher education graduates and their families are preparing to honor the students’ achievements with traditional, in-person festivities this month. ...
The University of Texas at El Paso has reached an agreement with Customs and Border Protection to allow parents of spring and summer graduates to cross the Juarez border so they can attend in-person commencement ...
When Miguel Venegas graduated from UTEP in December 2020 with a degree in mechanical engineering, he knew he was entering a job market as the world was grappling with a world-wide pandemic. But he was ...
Are you a first generation student graduating in the spring 2021 classes from University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso Community College or Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso? As we prepare ...
For the first time in her life, Giselle Paredes needs help feeding her family. “Many times I don’t have something to cook so I’m like, ‘what am I going to do?’” Paredes said. “They’re hungry ...
Both El Paso Community College and the University of Texas at El Paso are among the nation’s top institutions for granting degrees to Latinos according to a recent research study. The report produced by Excelenia ...
The day after the César Chávez holiday, labor and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta sat down virtually to speak with El Paso Community Center students. “El Paso is one of my favorite places in the ...
After three weeks of its network systems not fully being restored, the University of Texas at El Paso has yet to provide details about the “unauthorized and potentially malicious intrusion” that caused the networks to ...
The University of Texas at El Paso will have in-person commencement ceremonies in May, the first time the university has been able to do so since the pandemic struck in the spring of 2020. The ...
Christian Castro had a simple goal for his life: to “make people feel better.” Originally, he thought that goal could be achieved through comedy by making people laugh. “Laughter can make people forget their pain ...
A week after its computer networks appear to have been attacked, the University of Texas at El Paso is warning employees to stay off of campus computers as it struggles to bring systems back online. ...
The University of Texas at El Paso’s computer systems have been disrupted since Friday by an “unauthorized and potentially malicious intrusion,” UTEP officials said. The intrusion forced the school to turn off servers for email ...
Last spring, Derek Hernandez sat his parents down and drew a two-column chart. On one side he listed what life would look like if he continued his education as a political science major at the ...
For almost 30 years, El Paso has not had a dedicated reporter to the topic of higher education. This means there has been an accumulating gray area as to what higher education means for El ...
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