• UTRGV-Edinburg CISD partnership establishes permanent home

    Tuesday, November 29, 2022
  UTRGV and the Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District broke ground today on a new collegiate high school to serve the students of Edinburg.

• UTRGV marks ninth Tree Campus designation with Arbor Day plantings

    Tuesday, November 22, 2022
  UTRGV Facilities Planning and Operations, in collaboration with the Office for Sustainability, held a Texas Arbor Day celebration Nov. 14-15 to mark the university’s ninth consecutive Tree Campus Higher Education designation.

• UTRGV, USMFS awarded federal grant to fund solar startups

    Tuesday, November 22, 2022
  UTRGV is part of a series of 18 projects the U. S. Department of Energy has funded to promote equity and diversity in clean energy innovation.

• UTRGV pipeline programs paving paths for the underrepresented in health professions

    Tuesday, November 22, 2022
  Through two pipeline programs – the Vaqueros MD Early Assurance Program formed by UTRGV and the Joint Admission Medical Program (JAMP) created by the Texas Legislature – the UTRGV School of Medicine increasingly is recruiting talented ...

• UTRGV’s Ramezani awarded NSF grant to advance quantum research

    Monday, November 21, 2022
  Dr. Hamidreza Ramezani, associate professor in the UTRGV Department of Physics and Astronomy, has received a three-year (2022-2025), $800,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to perform research in quantum optics.

• UTRGV announces approval of football, women’s aquatics, band, spirit programs

    Friday, November 18, 2022
  The University of Texas System Board of Regents has approved the expansion of spirit programs and authorized the creation of marching bands and football and women’s swimming and diving programs for The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

• El Centro de Estudios Bilingües de UTRGV reúne a padres y distritos escolares en apoyo a los programas de instrucción en inglés y español

    Friday, November 18, 2022
  El Centro de Estudios Bilingües de UTRGV (CBS, por sus siglas en inglés), en colaboración con Padres Unidos para una Educación Dual de Excelencia (RGV PUEDE), organizó el 21 de octubre la 4.a Conferencia Anual para ...

• French playwright, Molière, inspires UTRGV Theatre’s next production

    Thursday, November 17, 2022
  The UTRGV Theatre Department is following up its three nights of horror with three nights of commedia dell'arte, love, trickery, mistaken identities, mayhem, farce and fun.

• UT Health RGV provides epilepsy care for an underserved region

    Thursday, November 17, 2022
  There are 3 million people with epilepsy in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

• UTRGV Center for Latin American Arts receives grant for Flamenco, art programs

    Wednesday, November 16, 2022
  The UTRGV Center for Latin American Arts (CLAA) has been awarded $20,000 by the Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation to host a new project titled “A La Música y Arte: A Series of Flamenco Concerts and Workshops and Student Art Exhibitions ...

• UTRGV student talks ‘firsts’

    Tuesday, November 15, 2022
  There are a lot of firsts for Marco Arriaga. He is proud to be a first-generation student at UTRGV and proud to be in the first cohort of the university’s Human Genetics Ph.D. program.

• UTRGV names assistant VP for research analytics

    Monday, November 14, 2022
  Arya Singh, UTRGV’s new assistant vice president for research analytics, marks his first day today at the university.

• UTRGV’s Hinojosa to serve as trustee for College Board for Southwestern Region

    Friday, November 11, 2022
  The College Board, a nationally recognized organization that prepares and administers tests used for college credit, admission and placement, has appointed UTRGV’s Dr. Maggie Hinojosa as a new board trustee.

• UTRGV’s Maestre to participate in conference on dementia in low- and middle-income countries

    Thursday, November 10, 2022
  Dr. Gladys E. Maestre, director of the UTRGV School of Medicine’s Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research, will join some of the leading global dementia researchers at the Dementia and Brain Aging in Low- and ...

• UTRGV ranks in Top 10 nationally for awarding degrees to Hispanic students

    Wednesday, November 09, 2022
  Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education Magazine has ranked UTRGV second in the country for awarding bachelor’s degrees to Hispanic/Latino students, in its annual “Hispanic Outlook Top 100 Colleges and Universities for Hispanics” ...

• ‘Making an Investment’

    Tuesday, November 08, 2022
  A historic educational journey, which includes full tuition and fees covered by UTRGV, began this fall semester for more than 100 university employees selected to take part in the new Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration program.

• UTRGV student blazes trail in her family as first-generation doctoral student

    Tuesday, November 08, 2022
  San Antonio native Vanessa Cortez, 30, says being accepted as a member of the very first class of the UTRGV School of Podiatric Medicine was a milestone not just for herself, but for her family, as well.

• UTRGV signs agreement with U.S. Army Research Lab

    Thursday, November 03, 2022
  UTRGV has a new partnership with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to share research resources to benefit both groups.

• UTRGV School of Podiatric Medicine holds first White Coat Ceremony

    Wednesday, November 02, 2022
  Students in the inaugural cohort of the UTRGV School of Podiatric Medicine donned their white coats for the first time last Friday, marking their official participation as student-doctors.

• “Handle With Care” initiative launched in Hidalgo County

    Wednesday, November 02, 2022
  A UTRGV faculty member sparked a cross-agency initiative called “Handle with Care” that was recently adopted by Hidalgo County to provide support for children with trauma.