Sam’s Club gives $350K to RCVCOBE, Career Center to help provide career opportunities
May 21, 2024
A new gift from UTRGV’s collaborating partner, Sam’s Club, is expected to help broaden opportunities for students and their future careers.
Behind the success story of every UTRGV student, staff, and researcher, is a group of generous, innovative, and supportive donors. When you make a gift to UTRGV, you become a part of those stories. We invite you to read the stories below to see how philanthropy has enabled UTRGV to accomplish extraordinary things.
Enduring Legacy: UTRGV names stadium after Robert and Janet Vackar
March 21, 2024
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) announced Thursday that it is naming its newly acquired stadium the Robert and Janet Vackar Stadium.
UTRGV simulation hospital named for Drs. Krishnan
February 7, 2024
Drs. Subram G. and Elizabeth G. Krishnan with UTRGV President Guy Bailey at an unveiling event for the renaming of the university's simulation hospital in Harlingen, which will now be called The...
Anonymous $250,000 gift to UTRGV School of Podiatric Medicine honors Lawrence Harkless, interim dean
September 6, 2023
The UTRGV School of Podiatric Medicine recently received its first financial donation to advance student education and research in the field. The gift of $250,000 was donated anonymously on behalf...
Vackars gift $1 million to the UTRGV Department of Communication
June 28, 2023
Robert C. and Janet Vackar have gifted $1 million to the UTRGV College of Liberal Arts to support undergraduate and graduate students pursuing a degree in mass communication.
Burkhart Estate gifts $1 million to UTRGV for endowed academic scholarships
October 13, 2021
UTRGV has announced $1 million in endowed academic scholarships bequeathed by the Burkhart family.
UTRGV names School of Nursing Skills Laboratory in recognition of gift from South Texas Health System
August 16, 2021
UTRGV has received a gift from South Texas Health System to name the School of Nursing Skills Laboratory.
