. >Editor's note: This is the seventh story in a series highlighting a few of the interdisciplinary research projects at UTEP making an impact in the community, across the region and around the globe.A dozen or so middle school students busily worked on reports that would accompany their water research as their ecosystems created from mud, clay, pebbles and wood chips sat in clear plastic terrariums perched on nearby windowsills.The casual mood inside the second floor classroom of La Fe Prepar....