This Week at UTEP
• She Danced to Live
The El Paso Chapter of the UTEP Alumni Association will honor 1969 UTEP graduate Dr. Edith Eger at its annual Fundraising Gala Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 29, at the Tomás Rivera Conference Center, Union Building East, Third floor.
Eger is a psychologist and author who has turned the life lessons she learned as a Holocaust survivor into inspiration, helping others empower themselves.
Now a much sought-after motivational speaker, Eger has a clinical practice in La Jolla, Calif., and holds a faculty appointment at the University of California, San Diego.
For information or tickets for the Gala, call 915/747-8600 or 1-866-GO-MINERS.
• SunScape
Local gardeners can learn how to use native plants to create a desert-friendly garden during SunScape.
The annual gardening seminar will be from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 29, and Sunday, March 30, at the Centennial Museum.
Class size is limited and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. The class fee is $45. For more information or to register, call 915/747-8994.
• César Chávez Exhibit
The University Library Special Collections Department will host a special exhibit in honor of César Chávez through April 15 in the Library Gallery, 3rd Floor.
The exhibit is free and open to the public. The library is open Monday-Thursday from 7 to 1 a.m.; Friday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 1 a.m. For more information, call 915/747-6725.
Other upcoming events at UTEP:
Tuesday, April 1
9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Union West Parking Lot (Lot IC-10) and Undergraduate Learning Center
Blood Drive
Wednesday, April 2
4 p.m. Undergraduate Learning Center, Room 106
Millennium Lecture featuring Dr. James Steinberg, Dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin
Saturday, April 5
7:30 p.m. Fox Fine Arts Recital Hall
Concert by pianist Oscar Macchioni and the Mesa St. Trio
Wednesday, April 9
6 p.m. Union Cinema, Union Building East, First Floor
Reading and book signing by UTEP alumnus Adrian Esparza and UTEP Ph.D. student Anita August
Thursday, April 10
5 p.m. Rubin Center for the Visual Arts
Reception for following three exhibits:
Unknitting: Challenging Textile Traditions
In the Weave: Bhutanese Textiles and National Identity
The Third Lie: chromatic deflections, Mónica Bengoa
Thursday, April 10
12 p.m. Union Cinema, Union Building East, First Floor
Film screening of “Bracero Stories: Oral History and Discussion about the Historic Bracero Program"
Friday, April 11
4 p.m. Undergraduate Learning Center, Room 116
Fessinger-Springer Memorial Lecture Series featuring Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal, co-discoverer of the HIV-1 virus
Saturday, April 12
8 p.m. Don Haskins Center
UTEP Dinner Theatre 25th Anniversary Celebration
Information: 915/747-5234
