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  • All abuzz about the Brain Bee

      Thursday, April 30, 2020
    Construction is underway for the new UTRGV Institute for Neuroscience in Harlingen, but the university already is introducing neuroscience to students in high school.

  • UTRGV Psychology Clinic launches “warmline” to help RGV community find emotional support

      Wednesday, April 29, 2020
    The UTRGV Psychology Clinic will provide a new, confidential phone service called a “warmline,” to help community members find support during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • UTRGV Athletics programs rank among national leaders in community service

      Wednesday, April 29, 2020
    The UTRGV Department of Intercollegiate Athletics spent the 2019-20 academic year rallying behind the Valley in a big way, and as a result has been ranked 20th in the country in total community service hours among NCAA Division I programs.

  • University to mark Día de los Niños with ‘UTRGV Story Time’

      Wednesday, April 29, 2020
    The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley will highlight Día de los Niños on April 30 to honor and celebrate children – the future, hopes and dreams of every community.

  • UT Health RGV opening COVID-19 testing site in Harlingen

      Monday, April 27, 2020
    Beginning Tuesday, April 28, 2020, the UTRGV School of Medicine, through UT Health RGV, is opening its fourth drive-thru location offering COVID-19 screening.

  • UTRGV professor establishing cross-border collaboration on plant conservation, biodiversity library

      Thursday, April 23, 2020
    UTRGV and the Rio Grande Valley sit in a special part of the world, where a narrowly distributed, unique biota known as the Tamaulipan Biotic Province (TBP) encompasses an area from South Texas into Northeastern Mexico.

  • It's Earth Day

      Wednesday, April 22, 2020
    Prior to the COVID-19 global epidemic, the United Nations created 17 sustainable development goals to combat worldwide problems. The Rio Grande Valley is unique in facing each of the issues highlighted.

  • UTRGV engineering professor and students producing 3D personal protection equipment during pandemic

      Wednesday, April 22, 2020
    Necessary personal protection equipment (PPE), such as masks and face shields, have been increasingly scarce during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Group chat leads to donations for UTRGV Student Food Pantry, local police departments

      Wednesday, April 22, 2020
    A group chat about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a donation of more than $1,000 to the UTRGV Student Food Pantry and 1,000 face masks to two Rio Grande Valley police departments.

  • UTRGV Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Center helping struggling businesses impacted by COVID-19 pandemic

      Tuesday, April 21, 2020
    The UTRGV Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Center (ECC) is creating networking opportunities and other initiatives to help businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • UT Health RGV opens new COVID-19 testing site in Mercedes

      Tuesday, April 21, 2020
    The UTRGV School of Medicine’s clinical team, UT Health RGV, along with Hidalgo County leaders and the City of Mercedes are working to bring a COVID-19 testing site to the Mid-Valley area.

  • UTRGV offers students incentives as summer semester goes fully online

      Monday, April 20, 2020
    This summer, UTRGV is helping students earn a degree while social distancing at home by offering all summer courses fully online and announcing a big Summer Relief Package for new and current undergraduate and graduate students.

  • UTRGV Theatre Dept. crafts masks, shields for COVID-19 testing site

      Monday, April 20, 2020
    The UTRGV Theatre Department has been stitching hundreds of face masks, face shields and plastic medical gowns to provide critical protection for the university’s frontline workers at the COVID-19 testing site.

  • UTRGV Athletics donates concession stand surplus to Student Food Pantry

      Friday, April 17, 2020
    The UTRGV Department of Intercollegiate Athletics often asks the university community to rally behind the department. Now, the department is rallying behind the university community.

  • UTRGV implements pass/no pass grading option for spring semester

      Friday, April 17, 2020
    In an effort to help students maintain their academic goals through the COVID-19 pandemic – and ease their minds during this unprecedented time – UTRGV President Guy Bailey has announced implementation of a pass/no pass grading option.

  • Food for Thought: BSM at UTRGV finds ways to help feed the community

      Thursday, April 16, 2020
    As communities continue to face challenges and change due to the COVID-19 pandemic, compassion and kindness are more important than ever before.

  • UTRGV BMED alumni helping current students during pandemic

      Thursday, April 16, 2020
    Hector Filizola, a 2017 UTRGV graduate and one of Dr. Hugo Rodriguez’s former students in the UTRGV BMED Program, is in his second year of medical school at UT Southwestern in Dallas.

  • UTRGV Student Emergency Fund helps students in need

      Wednesday, April 15, 2020
    In these unprecedented times, people across the country have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic – and that includes college students.

  • UTRGV UREC promoting free digital fitness classes

      Wednesday, April 15, 2020
    Just because you’re supposed to stay at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, that doesn’t mean you can’t stay active!

  • FOOD FOR THE SOUL

      Friday, April 10, 2020
    UTRGV Patron of the Arts has unveiled an online concert series designed to lift the spirits during this COVID19 pandemic.

  • UT Health RGV Clinical Lab working on COVID-19 screenings, testing

      Monday, April 06, 2020
    The UTRGV Center for Vector-Borne Disease, a multidisciplinary research group founded in 2018 at UTRGV to study parasites, viruses and bacteria, has been certified under CLIA as the UT Health RGV Clinical Lab specifically for COVID-19 ...

  • UTRGV Library makes changes to practice social distancing

      Friday, April 03, 2020
    The UTRGV Library has always been a constant resource for students looking for a nook to study or a meeting spot for group projects.

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