TIMELINE: 90 YEARS OF HISTORY 2000s

2002-Larry K. Durham Sports Center opens   2003-$44 million in construction begins

Significant events in UTEP history *Significant events in El Paso history **Significant events in national or world history 2000 Legacy Campaign ends, raising $66 million Nursing cooperative doctorate enrolls first students Miner Village completed UTEP designated as a Doctoral/Research-Intensive University Miners lose to Boise State University 38-23 in the Crucial.com Humanitarian Bowl * El Paso County population: 680,000 **Dot.coms implode, NASDAQ stock index plummets 2001 Paso al Norte Immigration History Museum and Research Center established Sun Bowl gets AstroPlay artificial turf; Don Haskins Center gets new hardwood floor ** Terrorist attack destroys World Trade Center buildings 2002 Larry K. Durham Sports Center opens Maymester and Wintermester 10-day accelerated semesters offered Graduate enrollment hits record 2,848 Sam Donaldson Center for Communication Studies established * * WorldCom goes under in largest bankruptcy case ever 2003 Enrollment reaches record 18,542, including record Graduate School enrollment of 3,457 $44 million in construction begins on Academic Services and Biosciences buildings and an addition to the Engineering-Science Complex Construction begins on the Helen of Troy Softball Complex International business, civil engineering and rhetoric and composition doctorates approved ** U.S. invades Iraq and captures Saddam Hussein 2004 UTEP celebrates 90th anniversary