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Spring 2020 Game Showcase

Moving online did stop UTRGV Computer Science students from showing off their games, hosted on May 6 on their Discord!

National Science Foundation awards grant to UTRGV’s Department of Computer Science

UTRGV computer science, art students share their prototypes at Game ShowcaseThe National Science Foundation has awarded UTRGV’s Department of Computer Science a grant for a research project, “Unifying Self-Assembly through Tile Automata,” which introduces and explores the Tile Automata abstract model of self-assembly to better understand how to design systems of particles, such as molecules of DNA, to reliably self-assemble into complex structures based on simple rules and local interactions. Associate Professor Dr. Robert Schweller (shown here) and Assistant Professor Dr. Tim Wylie worked on the grant proposal and are part of the Algorithmic Self-Assembly Research Group (A.S.A.R.G.) at UTRGV.

UTRGV computer science, art students share their prototypes at Game Showcase Spring 2018

UTRGV computer science, art students share their prototypes at Game Showcase A University of Texas Rio Grande Valley computer lab bustled with sounds of clicking keyboards Tuesday as students played and ranked their favorite student-made video games.

Computer Science undergraduate collaborates with Google to improve interest and retention among Women students

Computer science senior Janette Garcia was selected as one of 15 students from across the United States to collaborate with Google on ways to promote broad interest in computer science among women students.

UTRGV Computer Science & Art Students Share Their Prototypes At Game Showcase Spring 2017

UTRGV computer science, art students share their prototypes at Game ShowcaseUTRGV students turned out to test and vote for the best of nine video game prototypes, during the UTRGV Game Showcase, held May 11 at the Edinburg Campus Computer Systems Lab. The prototypes were created by computer science and art students in a Game Design course offered at the university.