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Dr. Upal Roy

Congratulations Dr. Upal Roy on receiving the 2025-2026 UTRGV Faculty Impact Award in Research – Scholarship – Creative Work!

Read more about the 2025–2026 UTRGV Faculty Impact Awards:  The Newsroom - UTRGV faculty members honored for teaching, research and service at annual awards

Dr. Upal Roy

Congratulations Dr. Upal Roy for receiving the prestigious University Innovators Award at the inaugural Texas Innovation Conference for his outstanding contributions to bridging the gap between innovation and commercialization!

Dr. Corey Hawes

Congratulations Dr. Corey Hawes for being selected to become a Fellow of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (FASPEN)!

Dr. Upal Roy

Congratulations Dr. Upal Roy on being awarded an NIH grant for anti-HIV drug research!

Read more about the NIH grant for anti-HIV drug research

Dr. Upal Roy

Congratulations Dr. Upal Roy on being selected as a UTRGV School of Medicine’s Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RGV AD-RCMAR) Scholar!

Read more about the UTRGV School of Medicine’s Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RGV AD-RCMAR) Scholars

Dr. Lorena Lopez

Congratulations Dr. Lorena Lopez on receiving the 2020-2021 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Award in 

Teaching (Non-Tenure Track)!

Read more about the 2020–2021 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Awards: The Newsroom - The Newsroom - Eight UTRGV faculty members recognized with Faculty Excellence Awards 

Dr. Alejandro Lopez-Juarez

Congratulations Dr. Lopez-Juarez on receiving the 2021-2022 UTRGV Emerging Scholar Faculty Excellence Award!

Read more about the 2021–2022 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Awards: The Newsroom - Ten faculty named recipients of UTRGV Faculty Excellence Awards

Dr. Sue Anne Chew

Congratulations Dr. Sue Anne Chew on receiving the 2022-2023 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Award in Student Mentoring!

Read more about the 2022–2023 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Awards: Ten faculty named recipients of 2022–2023 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Awards

Prof. Judith Guetzow

Congratulations Prof. Guetzow on receiving the 2023-2024 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Award in Online Teaching!

Read more about the 2023–2024 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Awards:  The Newsroom - UTRGV awards 10 Faculty Excellence Awards for 2023-24

Dr. Tracia Forman

Congratulations Dr. Forman on receiving the 2024-2025 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Award in Online Teaching!

Read more about the 2024–2025 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Awards:  The Newsroom - Celebrating Excellence: UTRGV announces faculty award recipients for 2024-2025

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