Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Media Advisory
By News and Internal Communications
EDINBURG, TEXAS – The UTRGV College of Sciences, the Astrobiochemistry Lab, and the Center of Excellence in STEM Education (C-STEM) will host a public talk regarding meteorites, titled “From the Stars to Your Backyard: Meteorites Impacting the Rio Grande Valley.”
The presentation will be 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Monday, March 27, in the engineering building, Room EENGR 1.300, on the UTRGV Edinburg Campus.
The speakers are Dr. Juan Gonzalez, professor in the UTRGV School of Earth, Environmental and Marine Sciences, and Dr. Eloi Camprubi-Casas, assistant professor of Biology and Chemistry.
Students, staff, faculty and the general public are invited to attend and learn about the formation and future of the solar system, the age and early history of Earth, and how meteorites are formed, detected, collected and studied.
Meteorite samples will be on display.
Audience members will be able to take part in a Q&A session with the speakers.
For more information, contact UTRGV’s Center of Excellence in STEM Education at (956) 665-7836 (STEM).
ABOUT UTRGV
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) was created by the Texas Legislature in 2013 as the first major public university of the 21st century in Texas. This transformative initiative provided the opportunity to expand educational opportunities in the Rio Grande Valley, including a new School of Medicine, and made it possible for residents of the region to benefit from the Permanent University Fund – a public endowment contributing support to the University of Texas System and other institutions.
UTRGV has campuses and off-campus research and teaching sites throughout the Rio Grande Valley including in Boca Chica Beach, Brownsville (formerly The University of Texas at Brownsville campus), Edinburg (formerly The University of Texas-Pan American campus), Harlingen, McAllen, Port Isabel, Rio Grande City, and South Padre Island. UTRGV, a comprehensive academic institution, enrolled its first class in the fall of 2015, and the School of Medicine welcomed its first class in the summer of 2016.