• UTRGV doctoral student named UT System’s Jess Hay Chancellor Fellow

    Friday, July 05, 2024 — Edinburg native Ashley Leal is the first UTRGV College of Education and P-16 Integration (CEP) student to receive the prestigious Jess Hay Endowment for the Chancellor’s Graduate Student Research Fellowship, awarded by The University of ...

• UTRGV joins IRIS consortium to highlight research in higher ed

    Thursday, June 27, 2024 — UTRGV has joined the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science (IRIS), a national consortium of leading higher educational institutions committed to demonstrating the public value of sponsored scientific research. Membership in IRIS will ...

• UTRGV honors 22 doctoral candidates at hooding ceremony

    Thursday, May 09, 2024 — The UTRGV Graduate College recognized 22 doctoral candidates representing four academic colleges – the Robert C. Vackar College of Business and Entrepreneurship, College of Education and P-16 Integration, College of Health Professions, and ...

• UTRGV Graduate College doctoral hooding ceremony set for May 8

    Friday, May 03, 2024 — The ceremony recognizes the accomplishments of doctoral graduates. It will include the individual announcement of each candidate, display of their dissertation title, and a ceremonial hooding by their dissertation chair, co-chair, or a committee ...

• Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience

    Thursday, April 25, 2024 — Recent marine research expeditions provided UTRGV students with immeasurable opportunities

• Looking Toward the Future: UTRGV grad student grateful for unique research experience on marine expedition off the coast of Chile

    Monday, April 22, 2024 — Elyssia Gonzalez, a grad student pursuing a master’s degree in Ocean, Coast and Earth Sciences, never thought she’d spend her Spring 2024 semester studying never-before-observed sea creatures off the coast of Chile. But through the ...

• A Classroom in the Ocean

    Wednesday, April 10, 2024 — A once-in-a-lifetime research experience for two UTRGV students help discover some interesting (and potentially new) deep-sea creatures off the coast of Chile. Two UTRGV students, Megan Francis and Elyssia Gonzalez, and Dr. Erin Easton, UTRGV ...

• UTRGV signs research agreement with UDLAP to improve regional competitiveness

    Wednesday, April 03, 2024 — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) and the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) have signed a collaborative research agreement to strengthen international research and academic collaborations. This initiative aims to ...

• NSF's Moore visits UTRGV, champions STEM progress

    Wednesday, March 06, 2024 — UTRGV recently welcomed Dr. James L. Moore III, assistant director of the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) at the National Science Foundation (NSF), for a landmark visit to the Rio Grande Valley. The visit underscored NSF's commitment to ...

• UTRGV awarded $5M for ‘Target Carnegie R1’ research destination

    Friday, March 01, 2024 — UTRGV has been awarded $5 million to develop and implement strategies that will help the university reach Carnegie “Very High Research Activity” status, also known as R1. UTRGV is one of only two Texas institutions to receive the ...

• Revolutionizing forensic science: UTRGV leads the way with AI-enhanced age estimation

    Friday, February 16, 2024 — UTRGV has been awarded a $467,325 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) for a forensic research project aimed at transforming age-at-death estimation in forensic science. This is the first prime NIJ ...

• UTRGV SOPM student’s research explores potential impact of AI on underserved communities

    Thursday, February 15, 2024 — Olivia Mackey, a UTRGV School of Podiatric Medicine, student dives into researching the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare.

• UTRGV’s Chakrabarti receives NSF grant to enhance climate-resilient crops

    Tuesday, February 06, 2024 — The funding will support his research in genetic and molecular mechanisms in plants to develop climate-smart crops that are resilient to abiotic stresses caused by extreme weather events such as droughts and heatwaves. The goal of his research, ...

• 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.

• UTRGV researcher warns against excessive smartphone use

    Wednesday, December 06, 2023 — Smartphones have evolved into all-in-one devices, replacing calendars, navigation systems, music players and entertainment consoles.

• NIH extends grant to UTRGV School of Medicine to continue diabetes study

    Monday, December 04, 2023 — The UTRGV School of Medicine received a supplemental grant from the prestigious National Institutes of Health to continue research investigations on diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.

• UTRGV STDOI investigators receive $10M grant to establish an NIH Diversity Center for Genome Research

    Wednesday, November 29, 2023 — UTRGV recently was awarded $10.6M by the National Institutes of Health to support genetic research on depression and liver disease among Hispanics ¬– a majority demographic in the Rio Grande Valley with high rates of both disorders.

• UTRGV SOPM hosts inaugural Research Day

    Tuesday, November 14, 2023 — One year since its founding, the UTRGV School of Podiatric Medicine’s research arm is fully operational, and second-year students already are working on new avenues for treatment and prevention under the guidance of their university ...

• 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 ...

• UTRGV’s Spencer selected as NASA Solar System Ambassador

    Friday, October 27, 2023 — Dr. Thomas B. Spencer, UTRGV associate vice president for Research Operations, has been selected as a NASA Solar System Ambassador.

• UTRGV’s Rivera presents at Library of Congress Symposium, sheds light on Mexican American writer

    Wednesday, October 18, 2023 — Dr. Noreen Rivera, associate professor in the UTRGV Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies, was invited to present her work in Washington, D.C. at a Library of Congress Symposium titled "Rewriting America: Reconsidering the Federal ...

• UTRGV signs MOU with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to foster STEM education and research opportunities

    Friday, October 06, 2023 — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Oct. 5 with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to establish a collaborative agreement aimed at enhancing undergraduate ...

• UTRGV CA2REERs Consortium helps prepare engineers for success

    Friday, September 29, 2023 — The second annual meeting of the UTRGV Consortium of Advanced Additive Manufacturing Research and Education for Energy Related Systems – known as the CA2REERs Consortium – was held Sept. 22 on the Edinburg Campus.

• UTRGV students study ag in Arkansas through USDA-funded collaboration

    Friday, September 15, 2023 — Six UTRGV agriculture and environmental studies students spent 10 weeks doing an agricultural research externship at the University of Arkansas.

• UTRGV med student conducting urological research aimed at helping underrepresented community

    Friday, September 08, 2023 — A fourth-year medical student at the UTRGV School of Medicine is conducting urological research that may translate to better understanding and treatment for an underrepresented community. Simita Gaglani has always known her career path was in ...

• UTRGV School of Medicine awarded $200,000 for pancreatic cancer research

    Friday, August 25, 2023 — The funding will help advance pancreatic cancer-related research and studies in South Texas. This recent CPRIT award – the "Role of transcription factor UBTF in pancreatic cancer" – to the university’s cancer research ...

• Nature Geoscience journal publishes article on river behavior by UTRGV SEEMS Professor Tian Dong

    Thursday, August 03, 2023 — Dr. Tian Y. Dong, assistant professor of Ocean, Coastal, and Earth Sciences at the UTRGV School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences (SEEMS), has been published as co-author of a research paper accepted for publication in the prestigious ...

• Los Alamos National Lab reps visit UTRGV to help build opportunities for students

    Friday, July 21, 2023 — A team of representatives from the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) visited UTRGV July 13 in a goodwill mission designed to open up opportunities for students.

• UTRGV appoints new AVP for Research Enhancement

    Thursday, June 29, 2023 — The UTRGV Division of Research has announced the appointment of Abby Guillory as the new assistant vice president for Research Enhancement. The overarching goal for this new position is to expand, enhance and sustain research and scholarly ...

• DHS Science and Technology officials visit UTRGV to discuss student opportunities

    Thursday, June 01, 2023 — Funding opportunities, paid internships, and UTRGV-led project updates were among the topics of discussion during a recent university visit with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology officials.

• UTRGV awarded $1.4M to spearhead Climate-Smart Initiative in Valley

    Friday, May 19, 2023 — Researchers from the UTRGV College of Sciences have joined forces with lead partner Texas A&M AgriLife Research and other major agriculture entities on a $65 million grant to assess greenhouse gas fluxes and conduct soil analyses.

• 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 hosts 3rd Annual Latina THRIVE Summit

    Thursday, May 11, 2023 — UTRGV will host the “Latina THRIVE Summit” for college faculty and administrators, May 18-19 on South Padre Island. This year’s summit will focus on the THRIVE (The Healthy DepaRtment Initiative for InclusiVe Excellence) ...

• Research duo bringing breakthrough vector-borne disease research to UTRGV

    Monday, April 24, 2023 — A research project led by two UTRGV professors will develop coastal flood models that map how climate-related events increasingly affect the spread and emergence of infectious diseases. Dr. Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, a UTRGV professor of ...

• UTRGV’s Hay highlights woman-led activism against Agent Orange chemical

    Wednesday, March 22, 2023 — Environmental historian Dr. Amy Hay draws hope for the future from this country’s troubled past.

• UTRGV UTCRS awarded grant to promote railway transportation safety

    Thursday, March 09, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has awarded UTRGV’s University Transportation Center for Railway Safety (UTCRS) a $10 million grant to focus on promoting safety in railway transportation systems.

• UTRGV research efforts and accolades continue to grow, break internal records

    Wednesday, March 01, 2023 — When UTRGV started in 2015, one of its founding priorities was to conduct research that would have an impact on the Rio Grande Valley, the state of Texas and beyond.

• UTRGV faculty receives Carnegie African Diaspora fellowship

    Tuesday, February 28, 2023 — Dr. Aje-Ori Agbese, an associate professor at UTRGV, has been awarded a fellowship under the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to travel to Nigeria this summer, to work on a film project with Pan Atlantic University’s Nollywood ...

• UTRGV School of Medicine announces $6 million CPRIT award to expand cancer research

    Friday, February 24, 2023 — UTRGV and the prestigious Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) gathered in McAllen on Friday with community leaders and key legislators to celebrate a five-year, $6 million award from CPRIT to the university’s South ...

• CPRIT awards UTRGV School of Medicine $6 million to advance cancer research

    Tuesday, February 21, 2023 — The UTRGV School of Medicine's South Texas Center of Excellence in Cancer Research (ST-CECR) has been awarded $6 million by the prestigious Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), funding that will help accelerate the ...

• 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 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 researcher seeking participants for Alzheimer’s study

    Wednesday, October 12, 2022 — A UTRGV researcher is seeking participants for a research study about a family situation common in the Rio Grande Valley: caring for an elder with Alzheimer’s Disease.

• UTRGV School of Podiatric Medicine to open Regenerative Medicine research lab

    Thursday, September 22, 2022 — UTRGV researcher Dr. Claudia Biguetti, an assistant professor of medicine at the university, is establishing a new research lab in the UTRGV School of Podiatric Medicine focused on improving bone healing and regeneration.

• UTRGV Lecturer awarded NIH grant

    Thursday, July 28, 2022 — Jia researching interaction between animal toxins and human nervous system cell receptors

• UTRGV researcher developing AI to identify brain tumors

    Tuesday, July 26, 2022 — The likelihood of developing a cancerous brain tumor in your lifetime is less than one percent, but if you did, you would rely heavily on your doctor’s ability to identify the mass from MRI scans.