Sports
April 1, 2021
“I Pray for Them to Lose”
Why some El Pasoans root for every Texas basketball team that isn’t UTEP to lose during March Madness.
UTEP
News & Politics
June 11, 2019
‘Say Yes to the Scary’: The Best Advice From 2019’s Texas College Commencement Addresses
We watched a host of graduation speeches from the state’s hundreds of universities, and these are the ones we found most inspiring.
Style & Design
May 29, 2019
A Transformative UTEP President’s Story, Told in Ten T-Shirts
Diana Natalicio has collected a few hundred UTEP tops over the decades—and has something to say about each of them.
Art
April 26, 2019
Behind Every Painting, a Desperate Kid: The “Uncaged Art” of Tornillo’s Detained Migrant Children
A new exhibit at UT-El Paso displays works by young people held last year at the immigration detention center.
News & Politics
March 11, 2019
Selection of Heather Wilson as Finalist for UT El Paso President Spurs Campus Protests
The protesters' key issue with Wilson was her congressional voting record on LGBT issues.
News & Politics
May 22, 2018
UT–El Paso President Announces Retirement After 30 Years at the Helm
Diana Natalicio is believed to be the longest serving president of a public university in the country.
The Daily Post
August 28, 2014
Are Texas A&M And UTEP Two Of The Top Ten Schools In America?
A new list of college rankings from Washington Monthly puts two Texas schools in the top ten—but not the two you might expect.
The Culture
August 25, 2014
An Opera in El Paso By Way of Bhutan
An unusual production of Handel’s English-language opera “Acis and Galatea” is the latest expression of a century-old link between the University of Texas at El Paso and the Himalayan kingdom.
Sports
January 21, 2013
You Can’t Go Home Again?
The rise and rise and fall and fall of former UTEP, Texas A&M, Kentucky, and Texas Tech basketball coach Billy Gillispie.
Sports
January 21, 2013
UTEP Prez Says Miners Can Take Oklahoma
At last weeks UT system Board of Regents meeting, University of Texas at El Paso president Diana Natalicio told UT-Austin president Bill Powers that the Miners plan to soften up OU on Saturday.
Sports
January 21, 2013
College Football Realignment, The Second Circuit
It's 10 a.m. - do you know what conference your college football team is in? Now that the Big 12, SEC and Big East are all settled, here's a scorecard for the rest.
Sports
January 21, 2013
Sun Bowl Boxing Match is Back On
University of Texas system chancellor Francisco Cigarroa relents on the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Andy Lee fight at the Sun Bowl, with a few conditions.
Politics & Policy
January 21, 2013
Numerous Scandals Rock El Paso Area
A county commissioner was accused of distributing 110 pounds of marijuana, a tenured UTEP professor violated university policies, a suburban mayor dined at Hooters with city money, and mayoral candidate got a lap dance in his campaign office.
Sports
November 2, 2011
UTEP Football Coach Wants to “shoot white Horned Owls” in Houston
Mike Price tries to fire up his team at practice for this weekend's Rice game with fake arrest and hunting jokes.
Texas Monthly Talks
February 1, 2008
Diana Natalicio
Diana Natalicio on the future of higher ed in El Paso.