August 2019 | The Newsroom

UTRGV’s Jenet, BISD, BCIC partner to offer future space settlement design competition

Thursday, August 29, 2019
Eighty high school students from the Brownsville Independent School District competed recently in the first Space Settlement Design Tournament: 2050 Lunar Mining Settlement, at Veterans Memorial Early College High School.

UTRGV Ballet Folklórico welcomes new Ballet Folklórico Alumni company

Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Sara Sanchez, a UTRGV legacy alumna and high school folklórico instructor, recently ran into some of her former students on their way to dance rehearsal with UTRGV’s Ballet Folklórico.

University marks fourth anniversary with UTRGV Day

Wednesday, August 28, 2019
To celebrate four years of changing lives and making a difference in the region, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley marked its anniversary with UTRGV Day.

UTRGV ranked second as Best Bang for your Buck university in the South

Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Washington Monthly magazine has ranked UTRGV as the top public university in the South in the Best Bang for Your Buck category.

Parade and Picnic highlight second day of UTRGV’s Fall 2019 semester

Tuesday, August 27, 2019
UTRGV President Guy Bailey and his leadership team served up hamburgers to hundreds of students during the annual Picnic with the President at the Brownsville Campus.

UTRGV’s first-day enrollment surpasses 29,000

Monday, August 26, 2019
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley welcomed 29,619 students to campus Monday, Aug. 26, the first day of the 2019 fall semester.

Vaquero Move-In Day: Making UTRGV home

Friday, August 23, 2019
An estimated 850 UTRGV students are expected to be living on campus this academic year, and move-in days are always hectic and emotional.

Howdy, Y'all!

Thursday, August 22, 2019
This week, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley welcomes more than 4,500 entering freshmen during the annual Vaquero Roundup.

UTRGV PA program celebrates 25 years of service to the Valley with this year’s White Coat Ceremony

Monday, August 19, 2019
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Department of Physician Assistant Studies commemorated its anniversary with a White Coat Ceremony to welcome 100 new PA students.

UTRGV Receives High Marks in Best Colleges Rankings

Thursday, August 15, 2019
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley ranks third among public universities in Texas that provide the best value, according to the Best Colleges for Your Money 2019 rankings released by Money.com.

UTRGV students cherish experiences as they study in Florence, Italy, this summer

Tuesday, August 13, 2019
The Cradle of the Italian Renaissance – Florence, Italy – provided the backdrop for an unforgettable UTRGV Study Abroad experience this summer for six undergraduate students.

A New Beginning: UTRGV dance alum going pro in the Big Apple

Friday, August 09, 2019
UTRGV Dance Program alumnus Erick Perales is off to the Big Apple to begin his professional dance career.

UTRGV Summer Chess Camp participants learn from grandmasters

Friday, August 09, 2019
In his final year at Rising Scholars Academy of South Texas, Rene Zavier Villarreal was part of the chess team, which won first place at the Texas Chess Association Regional Chess Championship.

JSTEM Summer Program campers create biofilters, collaborate with students in Ghana

Friday, August 09, 2019
Sand, rocks and permeable concrete can help save lives, but you have to know how to use them. And a recent JSTEM Summer Program at UTRGV taught area high school students how to do just that.

NSF funds UTRGV professor’s TOROS telescope project to track cosmic gravitational wave events

Thursday, August 08, 2019
The National Science Foundation has awarded UTRGV’s Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy (CGWA) $516,000 for the second phase of construction of a telescope dedicated to research on gravitational waves.

International study finds blood pressure over 24 hours is best predictor of heart, vascular disease

Wednesday, August 07, 2019
Dr. Gladys Maestre, professor of neurosciences at The UTRGV School of Medicine, director of the Rio Grande Valley Alzheimer´s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging, and director of the Memory Disorders Center at the UTRGV Institute for ...