• UTRGV’s Dr. Leticia Villarreal Sosa receives 2023 Gary Lee Shaffer Award

    Wednesday, July 05, 2023 — Dr. Leticia Villarreal Sosa, LCSW, UTRGV associate dean of Research and Faculty Development and professor in the School of Social Work, recently was honored with the 2023 Gary Lee Shaffer Award presented by the School Social Work Association of ...

• Vackars gift $1 million to the UTRGV Department of Communication

    Wednesday, June 28, 2023 — Robert C. and Janet Vackar have gifted $1 million to the UTRGV College of Liberal Arts to support undergraduate and graduate students pursuing a degree in mass communication.

• UTRGV earns second gold rating for campus sustainability practices

    Friday, June 23, 2023 — UTRGV has received another distinction for collegiate sustainability, this time with a gold rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s Sustainable Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (AASHE ...

• UTRGV Center for Teaching Excellence awarded NSF grant for SaLT program

    Wednesday, June 21, 2023 — The National Science Foundation (NSF) Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program) has awarded a $199,838 grant to the UTRGV Center for Teaching Excellence’s Students as Learners and Teachers program ...

• UTRGV College of Education and P-16 Integration awarded $1M grant to develop teacher residency program

    Thursday, June 08, 2023 — Dr. Alma Rodriguez, dean of the UTRGV College of Education and P-16 Integration (CEP) and Dr. Zulmaris Diaz, professor and director of Field Experiences in the CEP, recently were awarded a $1million grant to launch a sustainable, affordable ...

• UTRGV awarded two USDA grants to advance local ag production

    Wednesday, June 07, 2023 — Before collaborating with UTRGV’s Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Advancement (SARA), Jose Aguirre’s specialty mushroom production was the definition of small-scale. He and his two partners hand-created small batches of ...

• Sylvia Robles receives VentureWell’s 2023 Sustainable Practice Impact award

    Wednesday, June 07, 2023 — Dr. Sylvia Robles, assistant professor of practice in UTRGV’s Robert C. Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship (RCVCOBE), was recognized by VentureWell. She received its 2023 Sustainable Practice Impact Award.

• Ten faculty named recipients of 2022-2023 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Awards

    Wednesday, May 24, 2023 — Ten faculty members have been named recipients of the 2022-2023 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Awards.

• UTRGV CMAS awarded $2.9M for HSI Program

    Thursday, May 18, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the UTRGV Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) a $2.9 million grant to help fund the ongoing Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. The program helps expand educational ...

• UTRGV linguist awarded NEH grant for continued research on bilingual voices

    Wednesday, May 17, 2023 — The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded a $349,931 grant to Dr. Katherine Christoffersen, a UTRGV assistant professor in Applied Linguistics, Department of Writing and Language Studies, for her research project entitled ...

• UTRGV awarded $17M to train mental health professionals for Valley schools

    Tuesday, May 16, 2023 — On Tuesday, May 16, UTRGV held a joint press conference with partnering education agencies to announce the launch of two $5M expansions to a grant that provides direct intervention to K-12 students, ¬and fortifies the infrastructure for ...

• UTRGV’s Feria named to UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers

    Monday, May 08, 2023 — UTRGV’s Dr. Teresa Patricia (Paty) Feria-Arroyo is one of four new inductees into the esteemed UT System Academy of Distinguished Teachers for 2023.

• RCVCoBE’s Maria Leonard named Woman of Distinction by RGV Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

    Tuesday, March 14, 2023 — Maria Leonard, an assistant professor of practice of Management with the UTRGV Robert C. Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship, has been selected by the Rio Grande Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for its annual Women of Distinction ...

• UTRGV celebrates International Women’s Day by #EmbracingEquity

    Friday, March 10, 2023 — Positive, impactful messages of equity uplifted women and supporters on International Women’s Day, during an event March 8 at the UTRGV Ballroom in Edinburg.

• UTRGV piano student named winning soloist for New York Golden Classical Music Awards

    Thursday, February 23, 2023 — This summer, Jingyue Ren, a grad student at UTRGV, will perform at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as one of the winners of the New York Golden Classical Music Awards.

• UTRGV Honors College part of consortium developing FANH innovation

    Thursday, February 16, 2023 — The UTRGV Honors College is part of a multi-institution consortium, called the Grand Challenge Scholars Institute, tasked with developing the future workforce in the fields of food, agriculture, and natural and human sciences (FANH) by leveraging ...

• UTRGV’s Alvarez granted NEH Faculty Awards Fellowship for research on Chicana feminism

    Wednesday, February 01, 2023 — Dr. Stephanie Alvarez, UTRGV associate professor of Mexican American Studies and director of the Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS), has been awarded a research fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

• UTRGV’s Karen Lozano and team bring home Lone Star Emmy for ‘Energía Y TÚ’

    Wednesday, January 04, 2023 — Dr. Karen Lozano, UTRGV professor of Mechanical Engineering and a Julia Beecherl Endowed Professor, and her team brought home a Lone Star Emmy for the Spanish adaption of “Energy & U,”

• UTRGV’s Yoo recognized with AmeriCorps national service award

    Wednesday, December 28, 2022 — When Dr. Soojin Yoo first started volunteering, she didn’t do it for the recognition. The activity simply spoke to her, both professionally and on a human level.

• UTRGV AmeriCorps gets additional funding to continue college readiness services to area high school students

    Tuesday, December 27, 2022 — The OneStar Foundation, the Texas-based non-profit that administers AmeriCorps funding in the state and advances national services to combat social challenges, has allocated more than $900,000 for the 2022-2023 academic year of AmeriCorps ...

• Dr. Cristina Villalobos becomes UTRGV’S first AMS Fellow

    Monday, December 26, 2022 — Dr. Cristina Villalobos, Myles and Sylvia Aaronson endowed professor in the UTRGV School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and associate dean for the College of Sciences, has been elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) ...

• UTRGV RCVCoBE professor recognized at Global Entrepreneurship Conference

    Wednesday, December 21, 2022 — This fall semester, Derek Abrams, a UTRGV associate professor of Practice with the Robert C. Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship, earned notable recognition at the 39th Annual Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization (CEO) Global ...

• UTRGV RCVCOBE names six new Kemper Scholars

    Monday, December 19, 2022 — Six UTRGV students recently were awarded scholarships from the Kemper Corporation’s philanthropic arm, the Kemper Foundation, and are now identified as Kemper Scholars.

• UTRGV receives $2.2M grant for ‘Climate-Smart’ Commodities project

    Monday, December 12, 2022 — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley was awarded a $2.2 million grant from the second funding pool of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities.

• 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’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 awarded Kellogg social impact grant

    Thursday, October 20, 2022 — UTRGV’s Agroecology and Resilient Food Systems Program and UTRGV’s Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Advancement have been awarded a social impact grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to expand and accelerate efforts to ...

• UTRGV music ed student garners gold at 2022 Leonard Falcone International Euphonium-Tuba Festival

    Wednesday, October 05, 2022 — Months of preparation and practicing the music all paid off this past August for UTRGV music education major Victor Cruz.

• UTRGV celebrates Dr. Juliet García’s Presidential Medal of Freedom

    Friday, September 16, 2022 — On Sept. 15, the eve of Hispanic Heritage Month, a large crowd gathered at UTRGV’s Brownsville Campus to celebrate the life and career of Dr. Juliet García, former longtime president of UT Brownsville and the first Hispanic woman to ...

• UTRGV awarded $1.25M NSF grant to increase the representation of Latina faculty in STEM

    Monday, September 12, 2022 — UTRGV has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) titled "ADVANCE Partnership: Transforming HSI STEM Departmental Climate for Faculty Success.”

• UTRGV Upward Bound Program receives more than $16M in federal grants

    Tuesday, August 16, 2022 — The UTRGV Upward Bound Program recently was awarded $16 million in grants to help more than 600 high school students from across the Rio Grande Valley earn a college degree.

• Villalobos recognized on UTRGV campus by Congressman Vicente Gonzalez for 2020 national award

    Friday, August 12, 2022 — Dr. Cristina Villalobos, a Myles and Sylvia Aaronson Endowed professor in the UTRGV School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, associate dean for the College of Sciences and founding director of the Center of Excellence in STEM Education, ...

• UTRGV establishes Center for Equity in Engineering for fall 2022

    Tuesday, August 09, 2022 — UTRGV has been awarded a $1,199,998 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish the Center for Equity in Engineering: Engage, Educate, Enrich (CEE-E3).

• UTRGV social work professor wins award at Society for Prevention Research conference

    Wednesday, August 03, 2022 — Dr. Tamara Al Rawwad, an assistant professor in the UTRGV School of Social Work, recently earned the Abstract of Distinction Award for a collaborative research paper that investigated how community-clinic networks may help increase the preventive ...

• Civil engineering team wins national GeoWall competition

    Wednesday, July 27, 2022 — Sacrificing weekends and holiday breaks paid off for UTRGV’s Civil Engineering GeoWall Team, which brought home a national win this spring from the American Society of Civil Engineers Geo-Institute GeoChallenge competition.

• UTRGV awarded $2.3 million federal grant to continue College Assistance Migrant Program

    Tuesday, July 19, 2022 — UTRGV’s College Assistance Migrant Program has been awarded $2.3 million in federal funding to recruit and enroll 45 eligible migrant seasonal farmworker (MSFW) students who are engaged, or whose parents are engaged, in migrant and other ...

• UTRGV’s School of Accountancy director receives TXCPA Outstanding Accounting Educator Award

    Wednesday, July 13, 2022 — Dr. Giorgio Gotti, UTRGV accounting professor and director of the UTRGV Robert C. Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship School of Accountancy, recently received the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants Outstanding Accounting ...

• Ten faculty named recipients of UTRGV Faculty Excellence Awards

    Thursday, May 12, 2022 — Ten faculty members have been named recipients of the 2021-2022 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Awards.

• UTRGV students garner 90 awards at local, regional advertising competitions

    Tuesday, May 03, 2022 — UTRGV students logged big wins in American Advertising Federation competitions this year at both the local and regional levels, with 90 awards.

• UTRGV Student Media, Gallery Magazine bring home 53 TIPA awards

    Tuesday, May 03, 2022 — UTRGV Student Media and UTRGV’s Gallery Magazine brought home a total of 53 wins at the 2022 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association Convention.

• UTRGV named Institutional Catalyst of the Year by Teach for America Rio Grande Valley

    Thursday, April 14, 2022 — UTRGV was honored as the region’s Institutional Catalyst of the Year during the Teach for America Rio Grande Valley Honor Roll Gala on Friday, April 8, at Quinta Mazatlán in McAllen.

• UTRGV Enactus and faculty advisor earn national SBAA Societal Impact Award

    Wednesday, April 13, 2022 — The mission of UTRGV’s Enactus chapter is to help make lasting, positive impacts in the community – a mission that has been heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• AACSB’s Innovations That Inspire initiative recognizes UTRGV Enactus Chapter

    Wednesday, April 06, 2022 — AACSB International (AACSB) announced UTRGV’s Robert C. Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship among 24 business schools highlighted in its Innovations That Inspire member spotlight program.

• UTRGV professors awarded NSF grant to offer Research Experiences for Undergraduates program

    Friday, April 01, 2022 — Two professors in the UTRGV School of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences have been awarded a $324,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to fund a program on Applied Mathematics and Computational and Data Science designed to help ...

• UTRGV School of Music, Quinta Mazatlán partner for free music series

    Wednesday, March 09, 2022 — The public is invited to enjoy great music and the great outdoors at “Music in the Park: A Festival of Music and Nature in the Rio Grande Valley,” a free concert series established through a collaboration between the UTRGV School of ...

• UTRGV School of Medicine awarded grant to address mental health in physicians

    Monday, March 07, 2022 — You go to the doctor to get your check-up, but have you ever thought, “Who checks up on my doctor?”