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).