• UTRGV expands summer camps, programs in Brownsville and SPI

    Friday, May 31, 2019
  In its ongoing efforts to expand programs and classes across the Rio Grande Valley, UTRGV has added summer camps and programs on the Brownsville Campus throughout June and July.

• UTRGV Baseball set to host two summer evaluation camps

    Friday, May 31, 2019
  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Baseball team announced on Friday that it will host summer evaluations camps for high school baseball players on June 4 and July 9 at 10 a.m. at UTRGV Baseball Stadium.

• UTRGV students share disaster preparedness research findings with area officials

    Friday, May 31, 2019
  There are almost 180,000 people in the Rio Grande Valley living with a disability, and most are not prepared to deal with a disaster like a hurricane.

• UTRGV School of Medicine wins TMA student chapter of the year

    Thursday, May 30, 2019
  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine has won the Texas Medical Association-Medical Student Section (TMA-MSS) 2018-2019 Chapter of the Year Award for its efforts in community service and recruitment of TMA members.

• UTRGV School of Nursing welcomes prospective students from Project HEAL2

    Friday, May 24, 2019
  The UTRGV School of Nursing on May 23 welcomed eight students from the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District who are prospective UTRGV nursing students.

• Experience the Opera at UTRGV

    Friday, May 24, 2019
  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Opera Theater will present one of the greatest operas of all time, “Carmen,” in Spanish with English captions, on May 29-30 and June 2.

• UTRGV, a Seal of Excelencia finalist, recognized for helping Latino students succeed

    Friday, May 24, 2019
  UTRGV is one of 20 universities and colleges selected by Excelencia in Education as a finalist for the Seal of Excelencia.

• UTRGV Chess Team recognized at Texas State Capitol in Austin

    Thursday, May 23, 2019
  The UTRGV Chess Team – back-to-back national champions in the Final Four of Collegiate Chess – took a triumphal mini tour of Austin on May 22 to accept kudos, resolutions and proclamations from Gov. Greg Abbott, the House and the ...

• Three outstanding community leaders recognized as UTRGV 2019 Distinguished Alumni

    Thursday, May 23, 2019
  UTRGV recently hosted its annual Distinguished Alumni Awards, the highest honor an alumnus of UTRGV or one of its legacy institutions can receive.

• UT System Board of Regents gives go-ahead to UTRGV for a Doctor of Audiology degree

    Thursday, May 23, 2019
  The University of Texas System Board of Regents has approved the planning process for a new graduate degree program, a Doctor of Audiology (Au.D.), for The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

• UTRGV Department of Public Affairs and Security Studies hosts first Borderland Security Conference

    Thursday, May 23, 2019
  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Department of Public Affairs and Security Studies hosted its first Borderland Security Conference, “On the Border by the Sea,” May 23-24 at the PlainsCapital Bank El Gran Salón on the ...

• UTRGV Academic Affairs leader testifies before House SubCommittee on higher education and labor

    Wednesday, May 22, 2019
  Dr. Patricia Alvarez McHatton, UTRGV executive vice president for Academic Affairs, Student Success, and P-16 Integration, testified Wednesday, May 22, in Washington, D.C., before the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment.

• RGV home to least popular bird in the United States

    Tuesday, May 21, 2019
  A biology professor at UTRGV says misidentification and location have stacked the odds against the Couch's Kingbird.

• UTRGV legacy alumna says business degree helps provide skills for running her flamenco dance company

    Friday, May 17, 2019
  UTRGV legacy alumna Mercy Renteria’s love for dance began when she was just 3 years old. She earned her bachelor’s degree in marketing and management from UTPA, recognizing that even a dancer would need business sense. Now a ...

• FESTIBA 2020 Mariachi Festival awarded $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

    Friday, May 17, 2019
  The UTRGV FESTIBA 2020 Mariachi Festival has been awarded a grant from Art Works, the National Endowment for the Arts’ principal grant-making program.

• Math & Science Academy generates youngest graduates at UTRGV

    Tuesday, May 14, 2019
  The youngest graduates at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Spring Commencement ceremonies were high school students enrolled in the university’s Math and Science Academy.

• UTRGV leads in Texas for innovation and excellence in online education

    Tuesday, May 14, 2019
  UTRGV’s Center for Online Learning and Teaching Technology (COLTT) has been recognized with the “Outstanding Commitment to Excellence & Innovation in Distance Learning by an Organization” award, by the Texas Distance ...

• More than 2,600 graduate in day two of UTRGV commencement ceremonies

    Saturday, May 11, 2019
  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley continued the graduation celebrations on Saturday, May 11, when more than 2,600 prospective graduates walked the stage in front of family and loved ones to receive their degrees during 2019 Spring ...

• Texas Bar Foundation awards grant to UTRGV to help empower youth in the foster system

    Friday, May 10, 2019
  The Texas Bar Foundation has awarded funding to UTRGV to improve college readiness among foster youth in the Rio Grande Valley.

• UTRGV Opera Theater to present Bizet’s Carmen

    Friday, May 10, 2019
  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Opera Theater will present one of the greatest operas of all time, “Carmen,” in Spanish with English captions, on May 29-30 and June 2.

• UTRGV graduates first group of ‘First Class’ Vaqueros

    Friday, May 10, 2019
  The first of seven 2019 Spring Commencement ceremonies for The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley began Friday in Brownsville, as friends and family assembled to watch their loved ones cap off their academic careers.

• Twins set to graduate from UTRGV this weekend with Environmental Science degrees

    Thursday, May 09, 2019
  Jahdiel Salazar and Josabeth Navarro are not afraid to get their hands dirty. The fraternal twin sisters each will accept her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science this weekend, after taking every class together along the way.

• Striving for better: UTRGV graduate ready for next chapter

    Wednesday, May 08, 2019
  Family vacations, spending time with friends, taking a break from schoolwork – college students usually envision those as summer break activities.

• UTRGV moves up in Carnegie Classification

    Wednesday, May 08, 2019
  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) was recently elevated to the second-highest classification of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

• UTRGV named Frontier University in Practice of Community Engagement

    Wednesday, May 08, 2019
  UTRGV is one of 100 universities selected for inclusion in the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advance Studies in Culture Field Guide for Urban University-Community Partnerships.

• Second annual UTRGV Family Medicine Symposium to be held May 17 at Knapp Conference Center

    Tuesday, May 07, 2019
  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine’s three Family Medicine residency programs will have their second annual Family Medicine Research Symposium, noon to 5 p.m. Friday, May 17, at the Knapp Conference Center in Weslaco.

• More than 3,000 graduates to walk at UTRGV spring commencement ceremonies

    Tuesday, May 07, 2019
  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley will graduate a total of 3,400 students in seven ceremonies at the 2019 Spring Commencement on May 10-11.

• Multicultural arts take the spotlight at UTRGV’s new Center for Latin American Arts

    Tuesday, May 07, 2019
  UTRGV is set to open a new center for multinational events that will act as a cultural hub for Latin American music, theatre, art, art history, creative writing and dance.

• UTRGV School of Medicine donates white coats to Lamar Academy in McAllen

    Tuesday, May 07, 2019
  Dr. John H. Krouse, executive vice president for Health Affairs at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and dean of the UTRGV School of Medicine, visited with students at Lamar Academy in McAllen on Tuesday, April 30, to donate white coats ...

• MBA grad survives health challenge, now helps other UTRGV students succeed

    Tuesday, May 07, 2019
  When UTRGV graduate student Griselda Muñoz walks across the stage May 10 to accept her master’s degree in business, she knows the sources of her strength will be sitting in the audience – her 13-year old twins, Christian and ...

• Exceptional accomplishments by faculty recognized at annual UTRGV awards program

    Thursday, May 02, 2019
  Faculty members at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley were recognized, celebrated, and honored for their exceptional accomplishments during the annual Faculty Excellence Awards Thursday, May 2.