Come learn about UTEP’s community of mathematics educators & science educators:

http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/lesser/team.html or http://science2.utep.edu/cenmaster/

UTEP’s facilities include an on-campus Child Care Center:

http://studentaffairs.utep.edu/childcare

latest issue of Math Department newsletter: http://www.math.utep.edu/dept/maxima/

welcome from the College of Science Dean: http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=60596

El Paso is a great place to live. The “Sun City” is a bi-cultural community of 700,000+ people located at the western tip of Texas, tucked between New Mexico and México. From campus, we can see both states and both countries. Housing is very affordable. On March 25, 2010 (p. F1), the El Paso Times reported (www.nhc.org): Among 210 metro areas in the country, El Paso has the third-least expensive rental market ($598 for a 2-bedroom rental and $502 for a 1-BR rental at the end of 2009) and its median home price ($131,000) at the end of 2009 was 141th among 208 metro areas. Also, although there have been recent problems in Ciudad Juárez itself, El Paso continues to be consistently rated the second-safest major city (after San Jose, CA) in the United States. We’re closer to San Diego than to Houston, both physically and culturally. Our international airport offers nonstop service to 18 cities. Our climate is one of the best in the nation (300+ days/year of sunshine, low humidity, and mild winters), which makes it easy to enjoy the outdoor activities that abound here, including hiking in the Franklin Mountains, which rise to over 7000 feet inside the city limits. El Paso is also home to a new medical school, expansion of a military base (Ft. Bliss), launching of a new medical school, and near a newly-built spaceport. You can find an objective brief overview of El Paso at http://www.desertusa.com/Cities/tx/tx_elpaso.html. A detailed, unblinking examination of El Paso’s pros and cons from the “El Paso Scene” monthly can be viewed at http://www.cs.utep.edu/novick/ElPasoEval.htm. Some pictures of hikes in El Paso can be found at http://www.cs.utep.edu/novick/hikes/. And to get a more vivid picture of life in El Paso, view the video at http://www.cs.utep.edu/DeptCS/movies/elpaso_landofthesun.wmv.

UTEP is a major doctoral-intensive urban research university in the heart of a thriving international metroplex. We're experiencing unprecedented growth of enrollment (which recently passed an all-time high of 20,000 students) and programs and a $50-million building boom. With new labs and classrooms to support our rapidly expanding academic and research programs, UTEP is one of several universities in Texas positioned to become a top-tier research university. Already we rank second in federal research spending among all UT system academic institutions. UTEP is also changing the face of higher education through its commitment to providing access and excellence in higher education: we rank second in the nation awarding undergraduate degrees to Hispanics and are the country's only doctoral research-intensive university with a student body that's mostly Mexican-American. The latest statistics on UTEP are available at: http://irp.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=29986.

We take pride in our beautiful campus, which features a distinctive architectural style (e.g., massive sloping walls and overhanging roofs) derived from the buildings in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan (featured in the Sept. 2008 issue of Mathematics Teacher!). Founded in 1914 as the Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy, a mineshaft still exists on the campus. And the 2006 major motion picture Glory Road depicts our school’s 1966 NCAA basketball championship – the first one won with an all-black starting lineup (more generally, we were the first college in a Southern state to integrate our intercollegiate athletic teams). You can take a virtual tour of the UTEP campus at: http://www.utep.edu/tour/

The University of Texas at El Paso, a growing research-intensive doctoral university of 20,000+ students, is located in mountainous desert country at the US-México border, offering opportunities to make a difference for many underrepresented learners in rich cultural and natural environments.   El Paso and sister city Ciudad Juárez form a metroplex of about 2 million.   Most UTEP teaching graduates stay in El Paso, giving faculty a unique opportunity to follow the results of their preparation of teachers.  UTEP also offers opportunities to write and support major funded work, such as NSF(MSP) and Carnegie(TNE) grants.  The Department of Mathematical Sciences offers an undergraduate minor in mathematics teaching, a Master of Arts in Teaching Mathematics degree, and also supports a Master Mathematics Teacher Certificate.  The University of Texas at El Paso is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity. The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran's status, or sexual orientation in employment or the provision of services. The University is also a recipient of an NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award (to increase the participation of women in academic science and engineering careers), which includes an active dual-career partner program and close connections with the program at nearby NMSU (an easy 40-minute drive away).