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UTRGV professor earns awards from EnergyTech UP faculty competitions
Thursday, September 19, 2024 Derek Abrams, RCVCOBE associate professor of practice for entrepreneurship and innovation, recently was awarded the inaugural 2024 Faculty Explorer Award from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of the EnergyTech University Prize (EnergyTech UP).
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UTRGV receives transformational $30 million grant to establish Diabetes Center of Excellence
Monday, September 16, 2024 The Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation (VBLF) has awarded a significant $30 million grant to The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley to establish the UTRGV Diabetes Center of Excellence (UTRGV DCE). The new center, which will be built near the ...
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UTRGV celebrates employee milestones
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 More than 300 UTRGV employees were recognized recently for their years of service to the university, during the 2024 Service Awards ceremony. Among them was Maria A. Garcia, celebrating a special milestone: 50 years with the university and ...
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UTRGV awards 10 Faculty Excellence Awards for 2023-24
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 The UTRGV Office of Faculty Affairs named 10 faculty members as recipients of the 2023-2024 UTRGV Faculty Excellence Awards.
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UTRGV CHAPS named 2024 recipient of SAA Excellence in Public Archaeology Programming Award
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 UTRGV Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools (CHAPS) recently received the 2024 Society for American Archaeology’s (SAA) Excellence in Public Archaeology Programming Award.
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Sam’s Club gives $350K to RCVCOBE, Career Center to help provide career opportunities
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 A new gift from UTRGV’s collaborating partner, Sam’s Club, is expected to help broaden opportunities for students and their future careers.
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UTRGV President Guy Bailey named Chief Executive HR Champion
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 UTRGV President Guy Bailey has received the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) 2024 Chief Executive HR Champion Award, given in recognition of his commitment to the employees of the university.
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Dr. Fred Farias III awarded President’s Medal of Honor during UTRGV Spring 2024 Commencement
Saturday, May 11, 2024 Dr. Fred Farias III, chairman of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and president and CEO of 20/20 Vision Care, has been awarded the UTRGV President Medal of Honor, a prestigious distinction only five others have received before him.
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UTRGV School of Medicine awarded $500,000 to develop chronic pain, depression comorbidity treatments
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 Thanks to a $500,000 grant awarded by the Trauma Research and Combat Care Casualty Collective (TRC4), researchers at the UTRGV School of Medicine’s Institute of Neuroscience will examine the effectiveness and safety of novel strategies for ...
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Fortune ranks UTRGV MSBA #4 in Texas
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 Fortune magazine recently ranked UTRGV’s Online MSBA program 4th in Texas for 2024 – and 17th in the broader national roster.
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UTRGV marks facility enhancements with $2.4M EDA grant
Friday, April 12, 2024 UTRGV on Thursday marked the beginning of a transformative facility enhancement project, with a groundbreaking ceremony at the Community Engagement and Student Success Building (CESS) in Edinburg. Funded by a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. ...
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UTRGV to kick off facility improvements with $2.4M EDA grant
Tuesday, April 09, 2024 UTRGV will hold a groundbreaking ceremony and special announcement on Thursday, April 11, to highlight the start of new facility improvements. Supported by a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA), the ...
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Valley native and UTRGV medical student earns national health recognition
Tuesday, April 02, 2024 Briana Gonzalez DiGrazia, UTRGV School of Medicine student, earned the prestigious U.S. Public Health Service 2024 Excellence in Public Health Award, recognizing medical students who demonstrate leadership in advancing initiatives to enhance ...
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UTRGV MS in Business Analytics ranks 4th in Texas
Friday, March 29, 2024 The MS program, recently ranked 4th in Texas by Fortune, helps train and prepare UTRGV students for jobs with companies that collect data needed to derive insights, improve efficiencies, reduce waste and increase profitability.
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UTRGV professor awarded 2024 Hispanic Women Making History honor
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 Dr. Sylvia Robles, assistant professor of practice in the UTRGV Robert C. Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship (RCVCOBE), has been named a 2024 Hispanic Women Making History awardee by the Hispanic Women Network of Texas – RGV ...
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Dr. Eloisa G. Tamez recognized as a Leader and Legend in Texas Nursing
Monday, March 25, 2024 The Texas Nurses Association recently selected Tamez, professor and associate dean for Student Success & Engagement at UTRGV School of Nursing, as one of five TNA members recognized as a “Leader and Legend of Texas Nursing” ...
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UTRGV School of Medicine awarded $17.5M to expand Graduate Medical Education programs
Thursday, March 07, 2024 The funding spans the 2024-2025 academic year and bolsters expansion of the UTRGV School of Medicine’s Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs by offering new residency options within the community. The School of Medicine’s goal is ...
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UTRGV provost awarded Society for Social Work and Research book award
Monday, February 26, 2024 UTRGV provost Dr. Luis Zayas has been awarded the Society for Social Work and Research book award. Zayas was recognized for research on effects of children living in immigration detention centers on the border.
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UTRGV School of Medicine granted multiple NIH awards for research
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 The UTRGV School of Medicine has received five awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research on various neurobiological studies, including chronic pain, neurodegenerative diseases, HIV and Alzheimer’s disease.
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UTRGV Testing Center awarded CLEP Honors Achievement
Thursday, November 16, 2023 UTRGV’s Edinburg Testing Center has been given the CLEP Honors National Achievement award for being a top 20 CLEP (College-Level Examination Program) honors test center.
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UTRGV awarded $5M grant to help revolutionize defense manufacturing
Friday, November 03, 2023 UTRGV hosted the inaugural meeting of its America's Additive Foundry (AAF) Consortium, an initiative funded by a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense's Local Defense Community Cooperation (OLDCC) program.
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UTRGV receives $1.2M NASA award to boost STEM education and research
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 UTRGV has been awarded a three-year, $1.2 million grant from NASA's Office of STEM Engagement, to enhance focus on earth and planetary sciences. Funded by the Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP), the initiative aims ...
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Gov. Abbott’s office gives UTRGV the Lex Frieden Employment Award
Thursday, October 26, 2023 The Office of the Texas Governor has awarded UTRGV the Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities’ annual Lex Frieden Employment Award, for work performed within the UTRGV Office of Human Resources, the UTRGV Enactus Group ...
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UTRGV CMAS awarded grant for museum internships, fellowships
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 UTRGV’s Center for Mexican American Studies (CMAS) and the B3 Institute recently received a $741,469 grant for the UTRGV CMAS Latinx Museum Internship and Fellowship Program.
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UTRGV hometowns – Edinburg and Brownsville – make Top 10 list of most wallet-friendly college towns in the U.S.
Monday, October 23, 2023 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is located in not one, but two of the most wallet-friendly college towns in the country according to WalletHub’s “Best College Towns & Cities in America.”
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UTRGV’s Yznaga honored with prestigious Young Center award for her work with immigrant children’s rights
Friday, October 20, 2023 Dr. Selma Yznaga, a UTRGV professor in the Department of Counseling, is the 2023 recipient of the esteemed Maria Woltjen Waymaker Award from the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights.
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UTRGV named inaugural ‘Academic Institution of the Year’ by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
Friday, September 15, 2023 The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), has named UTRGV its inaugural Academic Institution of the Year for 2023.
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UTRGV receives NSF grant for state-of-the-art electron microscope
Thursday, September 14, 2023 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded UTRGV a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award to acquire a special, cutting-edge microscope that will expand the possibilities for interdisciplinary molecular research at UTRGV and increase ...
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NSF funds UTRGV - TSC partnership in multi-messenger astronomy
Thursday, September 14, 2023 A new research and education partnership in astronomy, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), has developed between UTRGV and Texas Southmost College (TSC) to conduct research in multi-messenger and time domain astronomy.
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‘Chronicle of Higher Education’ lists UTRGV as third-fastest growing public doctoral institution
Thursday, August 24, 2023 The Chronicle of Higher Education recently released the Fall 2023 issue of the Almanac of Higher Education 2023, where for the sixth year in a row, UTRGV is ranked as one of the top 10 fastest-growing public doctoral institutions in the United ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...