Erik Acosta

January 18, 2024 One year ago, I walked into the Student Media and Publications office for the first time as a staff reporter for The Prospector. I remember feeling nervous, overwhelmed and excited about what was to come in this new journalistic experience. Before then, I never had my work published and had no experience working in a newsroom or writing for a newspaper. However, today, I walk into the newsroom as a better journalist, writer, and individual and as the new Editor-in-Chief of The Prospector.

UTEP College of Health Sciences announces their researchers will begin to work on improving employment barriers among veterans and Asian Americans with disabilities. Researchers Beatrice Lee, Ph.D., and Emre Umucu, Ph.D., both faculty members from the College of Health Sciences, were awarded a stellar grant of $240,000 from the U.S. Department of Education.

In late 2007, a team of UTEP researchers began working on a drug that could potentially kill cancer cells. Their extensive research has come to a revolutionary breakthrough as Renato Aguilera, Ph.D., and a team of Ph.D. students discovered a compound that fights against leukemia and lymphoma cancer cells.

As the season of love dwindles, an epic showdown of battle for love begins to blossom at the Wise Family Theatre. “Los Empeños de Una Casa” is a new bilingual production and theatrical showdown that opened Feb. 23, and brings the Spanish Golden Age to life. Written by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the show functions as a rom-com set in 1680s, Spain and explores the infamous themes of love, revenge and jealousy.

From the sun-kissed white beaches of Kenya to the highland paradise of Panama that lingers with a vibrant city and pure nature, is an adventure unique for travelers and the UTEP study abroad program offers that once in a lifetime college experience for UTEP students.

Editor’s Note: More updates on Senate Bill 4 will be provided in this article as more updates happen. Update: March 19, 2024 As of Mar. 19, 2024, The U.S Supreme Court’s decision allowed Texas to enforce Senate Bill 4, which means the law will allow state officials to arrest and detain people they suspect of...

A group of theatre students have fostered a new sense of community and belonging in the UTEP Theatre department that celebrates and highlights students who bring their unique talent to the world of theater at UTEP. “Cue the Miners,” an online media platform started in January 2024, spotlights design, technology and stage management students, the voices who bring UTEP theatre productions to life.

May begins to roll around signaling the end of the semester, but for graduating seniors, it is the end of their undergraduate years at UTEP. As seniors begin to plan their graduation outfits, take their senior photos at Centennial Plaza or around campus full of glee and hope for their future, they are also about to become a part of a family that has once been in their shoes decades ago.

As students and faculty stroll through Centennial Plaza, they’re welcomed by the Liberal Arts Building that has held its ground at UTEP since 1961. Over six decades later, the building will soon have a new home. Texas Western Hall, the building that will replace the Liberal Arts Building, will open in December 2025, with the...

If someone had told freshman me during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic that one day I would be editor-in-chief of a student newspaper, grow as a journalist, have an internship and meet people who have now become close friends, I probably wouldn’t believe it.