The National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $132,000 grant to a faculty member from The University of Texas at El Paso to conduct a two-week course about aspects of the border for 25 secondary education teachers from around the country. Ignacio Martinez, Ph.D., assistant professor of history and the project’s principal investigator, co-directs the NEH Institute “Tales from the Chihuahuan Desert: Narratives about Identity and Binationalism” that concludes on July 28, 2019.