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Peyton Foundation Presents Scholarship Checks to UTEP Students
• A new partnership between the Mary L. Peyton Foundation and UTEP is making it possible for current undergraduate students to continue their education. Fifty-nine students will receive a total of $67,000 to pay off outstanding tuition bills. Students were chosen via an application process that determined which students were receiving other sources of financial support and still had tuition balances for the Spring 2014 semester. Students also had to be residents of El Paso and enrolled full time with a minimum 2.5 GPA. Scholarships will allow the students to pay off their balances and be able to register for the summer and/or fall semesters.
The presentation will take place at noon Tuesday, May 20 at the Undergraduate Learning Center courtyard.
Press Events/Photo Opportunities On Campus:
Wednesday, May 21
7 p.m.
UTEP Dinner Theatre
Les Misérables — Discount Dinner Performance
What better way to celebrate UTEP’s Centennial than staging the internal smash-hit Les Misérables? Les Misérables holds the record for the longest-running musical in London’s West End and has become the most popular musical in the world.
The story centers around 19th century France where Jean Valjean is released from an unjust 19-year incarceration, but finds nothing in store for him but mistrust and mistreatment. He breaks his parole in hopes of starting a new life, initiating a lifelong struggle for redemption as he is relentlessly pursued by police inspector Javert, who refuses to believe Valjean can change his ways
Epic, grand and uplifting, Les Misérables packs an emotional wallop that has thrilled audiences all over the world. Its soaring melodies, including the hit song “I Dreamed a Dream,” have made Les Misérables a modern masterpiece.
The menu consists of french onion soup, chicken marsala, potatoes au gratin, french-style green beans, croissant dinner rolls, coffee, iced tea and chocolate eclairs.
The show runs through June 1. Tickets are available at the UTEP Ticket Center and all El Paso Ticketmaster outlets. Patrons may charge by phone by calling the Ticket Center at 915-747-5234 or the Ticketmaster Charge by Phone line at 1-800-745–3000.
The UTEP Dinner Theatre’s facilities are partially accessible to the disabled (tables 27 and 51 are NOT accessible). For more information please call 915-747-6060.
Thursday, May 22
All day
Fox Fine Arts Center, room 140 (band room)
Annual UTEP Piano Sale
For four days, The University of Texas at El Paso’s music department will offer once-in-a-lifetime savings on pianos, with easy financing available.
The department will sell baby grands, grands, player pianos, digital pianos and other types of pianos.
The sale is by appointment only Thursday, May 22 and Friday, May 23. It will open to the public Saturday, May 24 and Sunday, May 25.
The location of the sale is the Fox Fine Arts Center on UTEP’s campus, room 140 (the band room).
To make an appointment, please call Inessa Pinkhasova at 915-400-8919 or by email at ipinkhas@aol.com.
7 p.m.
UTEP Dinner Theatre
Les Misérables — Discount Dinner Performance
Friday, May 23
All day
Fox Fine Arts Center, room 140 (band room)
Annual UTEP Piano Sale
7 p.m.
UTEP Dinner Theatre
Les Misérables — Dinner Performance
Saturday, May 24
All day
Fox Fine Arts Center, room 140 (band room)
Annual UTEP Piano Sale
7 p.m.
UTEP Dinner Theatre
Les Misérables — Dinner Performance
Sunday, May 25
All day
Fox Fine Arts Center, room 140 (band room)
Annual UTEP Piano Sale
2:30 p.m.
UTEP Dinner Theatre
Les Misérables — No-Dinner Performance
Campus Spotlights:
UTEP to Host Conference on Environmental Health Disparities on the Border
• Researchers, stakeholder agencies and community groups will discuss environmental contributions to health disparities at the “Environmental Health Disparities on the Border: Addressing Environment, Public Health and Social Justice” conference hosted by UTEP. The goal of the conference is to summarize research on environmental health disparities on the border, identify research needs, and elaborate on appropriate research methodologies that engage stakeholders and communities that are impacted by environmental health disparities.
The conference will be from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, and 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 21 in the Templeton Suite – Union Building East, room 313.
Members of the media are invited to attend, however, the conference is not open to the public.
Nobel Laureate at UTEP to Discuss World’s Financial Stability
• Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert F. Engle will discuss the prospects for global financial stability during a breakfast meeting at 7:30 a.m. Friday, May 23, in the El Paso Club on the 18th floor of the Chase Building, 201 E. Main St.
About 150 academic leaders from UTEP and institutions in Juárez, members of the area’s economic interest groups, and leading bankers in the Paso del Norte region will attend the event.
Engle is the Michael Armellino Professor of Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business. He won his Nobel Prize for economic sciences in 2003 for developing methods to enhance the understanding and measurement of banking, financial risk, asset pricing and market behavior. His work also helps us comprehend causes and consequences of financial policy.
Members of the media are invited to attend, however, the conference is not open to the public.
Business Announcement:
• Lawrence Murr, Ph.D., chair and professor of metallurgical and materials engineering at UTEP, will be recognized as a Distinguished Life Member of Alpha Sigma Mu Honor Society during the Materials Science & Technology 2014 convention Oct. 13 in Pittsburgh. Murr recently announced his retirement after 50 years in higher education, including the past 25 at UTEP.
Alpha Sigma Mu is a national organization that recognizes outstanding seniors and graduate students in metallurgical engineering and materials science and engineering. Murr is being honored for his history of outstanding career accomplishments including many years of researching explosions and ballistics for the federal government.