Technology

The University of Texas System has partnered with edX, a popular Massive Online Open Courses platform, to expand the growing field of MOOCs and study how these non-traditional classes work within current academic frameworks.

The university’s inner campus roads are under construction this summer and will be converted to pathways with greenery to achieve a more pedestrian-friendly environment.

Students participating in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon are preparing to break ground on their competition piece, a $250,000 solar powered house.

Mayoral Election

The final stretch in the race for mayor of El Paso is underway and students are looking at the opportunities candidates Steve Ortega and Oscar Leeser promise to offer in jobs and city growth when casting their vote.

Loyal Tucson Fans Saddened by Team’s Departure

As El Paso baseball fans are anxiously waiting for April 2014, when the new Triple A baseball team makes its debut in downtown El Paso, Tucson fans can only relinquish the team and hope to enjoy the final season of the Padres in Tucson. “In reality, Tucson doesn’t deserve to have a to have Triple A Baseball,” said Tucson Padres General Manager Mike Feder.

Bob Medinger, 56, received an email in 2007 with the photo of Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James embracing former Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. during a Veterans Day Celebration in Dallas and decided he needed to do something to help out veterans.  “(That’s) what got me off of the couch.

Bob Medinger, 56, received an email in 2007 with the photo of Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James embracing former Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. during a Veterans Day Celebration in Dallas and decided he needed to do something to help out veterans.  “(That’s) what got me off of the couch.

Bob Medinger, 56, received an email in 2007 with the photo of Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James embracing former Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. during a Veterans Day Celebration in Dallas and decided he needed to do something to help out veterans.  “(That’s) what got me off of the couch.

La Plaza de la Mexicanidad was inaugurated May 24 in Ciudad Juárez to an estimated audience of 120 thousand people. The El Paso Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Alondra de la Parra presented a repertoire accompanied by Natalia Lafourcade, Ely Guerra and Denise Gutierrez for the occasion in the square’s amphitheater.