January 10, 2024
This article summarizes the development of a High Impact Sustainable Transdisciplinary Collaboration Model for Food Justice based on the work done by faculty from different disciplines—engineering, business, and agriculture—with their corresponding courses in the last 5 years.
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December 31, 2023
Community-based sociolinguistic corpora are collections of informal interviews with community members who comprise an important dataset in sociolinguistics. Although some scholars have involved students in developing sociolinguistic corpora, few studies have examined students’ perspectives on these projects. Furthermore, very few studies examine the perceptions of underrepresented college students who are themselves members of the surrounding community.
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April 18, 2022
A judge reviews a poster presentation by UTRGV students Alondra Medina (center) and Alyssa Canales, titled “Spinal Cord Scarring Influences the Functional Recovery of Patients with Spinal Cord Injury,” during a previous Engaged Scholar Symposium. The symposium is designed to help scholars by providing a platform for students to engage with their peers and community, offer a public space to showcase their skills as researchers, public servants, and artists as well as help them grow as emerging professionals and agents of change. This year’s symposium will be held in person and virtually today through Friday. David Pike/University Marketing and Communications
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April 18, 2022
Un juez analiza la presentación de las estudiantes de UTRGV Alondra Medina (centro) y Alyssa Canales, titulada “La cicatrización de la médula espinal contribuye a la recuperación funcional de los pacientes con lesiones”, durante un previo Simposio de Alumnos Involucrados. El simposio está proyectado para ayudar a los académicos al proporcionar un entorno para que los estudiantes interactúen con sus compañeros y la comunidad, ofrecer un espacio público para mostrar sus habilidades como investigadores, servidores públicos y artistas así como ayudarlos a crecer como profesionales y promotores del cambio. El simposio de este año se llevará a cabo de manera presencial y virtual desde hoy hasta el viernes. David Pike/University Marketing and Communications
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April 20, 2017
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s Office of Community Engagement and Assessment presented its Distinguished Community Engagement Partner Award to the City of Edinburg Solid Waste Management and the United Way of South Texas for providing learning and volunteer opportunities to students.
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April 20, 2017
Day two of the annual Engaged Scholar Symposium that showcases undergraduate student research and engagement projects in the community continued April 19 at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s Edinburg Campus.
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April 19, 2017
The annual Engaged Scholar Symposium that recognizes undergraduate student research and community engagement opened its first day on the Brownsville Campus of The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday, April 18.
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April 13, 2017
Lakshman Vigneswaran, a biomedical sciences major at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, represented the university at the Texas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol in late March.
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April 11, 2017
The Student Employment Initiative (SEI) Program at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley continues to prove its effectiveness, offering on-campus employment opportunities related to a student’s program of study.
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February 16, 2017
A UTRGV student organization is working on a children’s storybook that could help save a dying indigenous language. Members of the Cross-Linguistics Undergraduate Board (CLUB) are nearing completion of a year-long, trilingual children’s storybook written in Zapotec, Spanish and English.
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February 9, 2017
The South Texas Environmental Education and Research (STEER) Program at The UTRGV School of Medicine has been selected to receive the university’s 2017 Community Engaged Scholarship Champions Award.
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June 24, 2016
Dr. Julie Mustard, assistant professor of biology at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, gets down to business every day at her Brownsville Campus laboratory, which includes a balcony where she cares for two honey bee hives.
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July 27, 2016
A new grant to The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley will help train students to become the next generation of agricultural research scientists focused on future challenges in climate change and food security.
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August 16, 2016
As an ecologist and a teacher, Dr. Alexis Racelis wants his students to develop a well-practiced ecological lens on the world.
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April 22, 2016
The Engaged Scholar Symposium is held each spring at UTRGV, providing a venue for undergraduates to present their research, service learning projects, and creative works to the campus community. The Office of Engaged Scholarship & Learning hosts the event and invites students from all academic disciplines to participate. The event provides a platform for students to interact with their peers and the community at-large.
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April 22, 2016
Sophomore Emily Cole and junior Catarina Gutierrez, both students at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, work with brain cancer cells in their Edinburg Campus lab. They look at Parkinson’s and other diseases of the brain, including potential treatments for brain cancer.
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April 21, 2016
he annual Engaged Scholar Symposium, held Thursday, April 21, on the UTRGV Brownsville Campus, and Friday, April 22, on the Edinburg Campus, highlighted the research work of students during an intense two-day competition.
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March 12, 2016
More than 340 visitors attended the inaugural International Museum of Art and Science (IMAS) Brain Day! The event was a collaboration between the UTRGV Department of Psychological Science, the Physician Assistant program, and IMAS.
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