UTEP and El Paso
The University of Texas at El Paso will host the SIGDOC 2007 conference. UTEP is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a Research University—High Research Activity. UTEP, the largest majority-Mexican-American university in the nation, serves about 20,000 students.
UTEP has a striking campus, with buildings in the architectural style of kingdom of Bhutan. The architecture was inspired by similarities between El Paso’s mountainous terrain and that of the Himalayas. SIGDOC 2007 participants will stay in the new Hilton Garden Inn, also built in the Bhutanese style, located on campus immediately adjacent to the Union building, which houses our conference center.
El Paso is a friendly city of 700,000 people. With 300 days of sunshine a year, El Paso is known as the “ Sun City.” The El Paso-Ciudad Juarez region lies in the valley of the Rio Grande and boasts mountain ranges rising to over 7,000 feet. El Paso is in the western-most point of Texas, bounded by both Mexico and New Mexico. From hills on the UTEP campus, visitors can see three states and two countries. Late October is the height of the region’s Celebration of Our Mountains, a month-long festival of events to encourage appreciation of the El Paso region’s environment, with hikes, field trips, driving tours, nature walks and other activities.
