{"id":157181,"date":"2026-02-09T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/157181\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:44:11","slug":"utep-renames-engineering-college-for-alumnus-miguel-loya-after-historic-30m-gift-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/157181\/","title":{"rendered":"UTEP renames engineering college for alumnus Miguel Loya after historic $30M gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The University of Texas at El Paso has received a historic $30 million donation from alumnus Miguel Loya, leading to the renaming of its engineering college as the Miguel A. Loya College of Engineering. <\/p>\n<p>This contribution, the largest in the university&#8217;s history, will fund the Miguel A. Loya Scholarship Program, offering full-ride scholarships and additional support to top engineering students. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UTEP had an extraordinary impact on my life and trajectory,&#8221; Loya said. &#8220;I am thrilled to be able to give back to this wonderful university and support future Miners on their own journeys.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>UTEP President Heather Wilson expressed gratitude, stating, &#8220;This transformational gift from Miguel Loya will be one of the most generous in the nation and will support the best students who want to become engineers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The scholarship program aims to recruit exceptional talent, with applications opening in Fall 2026 and the first cohort enrolling in Fall 2027.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-anticipates-tourism-boost-with-major-spring-concerts-at-sun-bowl-stadium?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso anticipates tourism boost with major spring concerts at Sun Bowl Stadium<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The University of Texas at El Paso has received a historic $30 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-157181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}