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UTEP Receives Star Award
UTEP’s Developmental Math Program has received the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s 2014 Star Award for exceptional contributions toward meeting one or more of the goals of the Texas higher education plan, Closing the Gaps by 2015.
The Coordinating Board received 33 nominations and 28 applications for this year’s Star Award program.
The Star Award was established in 2001. Representatives of institutions, organizations and groups from all over Texas have been recognized for their efforts to develop and implement the state’s most successful programs, projects, activities and partnerships.
Nobel Laureate to Present Centennial Lecture at UTEP
Sir Harry Kroto, Ph.D., a Nobel laureate in chemistry, will deliver a Centennial Lecture titled “Chemistry in Nano and Outer Space” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 25 at UTEP’s Undergraduate Learning Center, room 106.
Kroto has conducted research that is said to have revolutionized the modern world, giving rise to the era of nanotechnology.
He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry after discovering one of the world’s first nanoparticles: buckminsterfullerenes, or “buckyballs.” Because of their unique properties, the nanoparticles are now being studied for applications in drug delivery and solar energy.
For his service to science, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1996. He currently serves at the Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry at Florida State University.
In 2014, The University of Texas at El Paso is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding as the Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy. The Centennial Lecture Series invites noteworthy speakers to the UTEP campus to share their perspectives on a broad range of contemporary issues that are likely to impact our society, culture and lives in the years ahead.
The lecture, which is sponsored by UTEP President Diana Natalicio and the UTEP Department of Chemistry, is free and open to the public.
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UTEP to Celebrate Teaching Partners at Football Game
UTEP will honor the contributions of teachers, administrators and support staff at public and private schools throughout Region 19 during the UTEP football game against Middle Tennessee State University at 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 29, in the Sun Bowl Stadium.
UTEP President Diana Natalicio extended an invitation to the University’s partners in education to recognize their role in promoting academic access, achievement and excellence among the thousands of PreK-12 students around the Paso del Norte region.
The University, with the help of the El Paso Area Teachers Federal Credit Union, organized this annual event to recognize the efforts by PreK-12 personnel to teach, engage, nurture and mentor students in their care.
The teachers, administrators and support staff have until 11:59 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24 to reserve a total of four general admission tickets to the game.
Additional tickets may be purchased for $12 each.
Questions: universityrelations@utep.edu
Business Announcements:
· Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Patricia Witherspoon, Ph.D., has been elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences. The election took place at the council’s annual conference Nov. 5-8 in San Antonio. CCAS was founded in 1965 as a national association of baccalaureate degree-granting colleges whose purpose is to sustain the arts and sciences as a leading influence in American higher education.
· Associate Professor and Department of History Chair Yolanda Chávez Leyva, Ph.D., was invited to Sao Paolo to facilitate training of a group of international historical and memory museums, sites and initiatives at “Memory: A Pillar of Transitional Justice,” co-sponsored by the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience and the Brazilian government’s Amnesty Commission. Representing UTEP’s Museo Urbano as one of three U.S. sites invited to the conference, Chávez Leyva facilitated two afternoon workshops on dialogue and working as a site of conscience for attendees from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Serbia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Brazil and others. She also recently returned from Chicago, where Museo Urbano was invited by the city’s historic Hull House to be part of 20 sites conducting immigration dialogues, including the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.
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Monday, Nov. 24
7:30 – 9 p.m.
Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall
Holiday Revels
In the spirit of the holiday season, The University of Texas at El Paso choirs present two evenings of song and dance in the style of the Christmas Revels. Performances will take place at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24 and Tuesday, Nov. 25 in the UTEP Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall, featuring the University Chorus, Collegiate Choir, Concert Chorale and Chamber Singers, along with guests from past performances. If you love to deck the halls, you will enjoy these revels! Come early for hot chocolate and pre-concert entertainment.
Tickets are $5 for general admission; $3 for seniors, military and non-UTEP students; and free for UTEP students, faculty and staff, and children under 6.
For more information, please contact Elisa Fraser Wilson, D.M.A., at ewilson@utep.edu or 915-747-5606.
Tuesday, Nov. 25
7:30 – 9 p.m.
Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall
Holiday Revels
Thursday, November 27
University Closed
The University of Texas at El Paso is closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Friday, Nov. 28
University Closed
The University of Texas at El Paso is closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.
2 p.m.
Memorial Gym
Women’s Volleyball vs. New Mexico State
The University of Texas at El Paso women’s volleyball team will face off against New Mexico State University.
Saturday, Nov. 29
1 p.m.
Memorial Gym
Women’s Volleyball vs. TCU
The University of Texas at El Paso women’s volleyball team will face off against TCU.
5 p.m.
Sun Bowl Stadium
Football vs. Middle Tennessee
The University of Texas at El Paso football team will face off against Middle Tennessee.