With only three part-time licensed professional counselors to provide mental health and behavioral health services in Alpine, Marfa and Presidio in West Texas, residents in the state’s Big Bend region have little choice but to wait weeks to receive primary, mental and behavioral health care or go without treatment. The shortage of mental health care […]Read More
For 10 years, Tim Z. Hernandez, associate professor of creative writing at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), has tried to squeeze in time to learn more about the doomed charter flight that carried 28 Mexican bracero workers to their deaths in 1948. UTEP’s new Faculty Development Leave (FDL) program will give Hernandez […]Read More
Various traumas experienced by K-12 students in the Paso del Norte region during the past 10 years spurred Beverley Argus-Calvo, Ph.D., an associate professor and administrator at The University of Texas at El Paso, to consider academic solutions. Argus-Calvo, chair of the College of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology and Special Services, said she witnessed […]Read More
(UTEP) More than 150 K-12 and higher education leaders from around the country traveled to West Texas to see firsthand how The University of Texas at El Paso and its regional education partners have been able to implement a series of initiatives designed to ensure that new teachers are ready to meet the demands of […]Read More
This is a busy and exciting time for Georgina Hernández Escobar, assistant professor of instruction with The University of Texas at El Paso’s (UTEP) Department of Theatre and Dance. Her latest efforts debuted in New York and El Paso within days of each other. “Alebrijes,” a bilingual Day of the Dead play that she wrote […]Read More
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) recently started its participation in the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) PhD Career Pathways Humanities Coalition Grant Writing Project, an innovative multi-institutional effort to highlight the diverse career opportunities available to new doctoral graduates in the humanities. UTEP was one of 10 U.S. doctoral degree-granting institutions selected […]Read More
The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is welcoming alumni, students, friends and fans to campus for 2021 Homecoming Week activities including reunions, tailgating, a pep rally and a Conference USA football game against Old Dominion University. Festivities tied to the theme of “Celebrate the Roaring ’20s” began last week with the SGA Homecoming […]Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced its selection of The University of Texas at El Paso’s (UTEP) Jayajit Chakraborty, Ph.D., to serve on the EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) and the EPA’s new Environmental Justice Science Committee. SAB is a federal advisory committee that provides the EPA administrator with advice and recommendations on […]Read More
Chemotherapy can be a lifesaver for an individual fighting cancer, but certain cancer treatments can put a person’s heart at risk. UTEP u Cardiac toxicity, or heart damage, is a serious side effect of many conventional chemotherapy drugs used to treat cancer. Chemotherapy can kill or damage healthy cells in the body, not just the […]Read More
In an effort to create a more robust and coordinated counseling program, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has transferred its Master of Rehabilitation Counseling (MRC) program to the College of Education from its home of 11 years, the College of Health Sciences (CHS). The program and its 43 registered students will be […]Read More