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PUENTES: Cultural Wealth Student Success is research based grant program funded by the Mellon Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute for Library and Museum Services that aims to improve student success at UTRGV through the expansion of ethnic studies. Our work includes, supporting the Mexican American Studies program, professional development in ethnic studies, course development in ethnic studies, nurturing an ethnic studies intellectual community in the borderlands, archiving of oral histories and providing UTRGV students with research opportunities and paid internships at Latino museums.

  Graphic element for Puentes; the graphic includes an opossum with a flame at the end of its tail walking over an outline of the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas, the word "PUENTES" artistically added within.Graphic element for UTRGV's Mexican American Studies. The graphic contains a monarch butterfly on the left that has various Aztec-like design elements and the letters "MAS" within the wings next to the words "Mexican American Studies" done in a gradient similar to that of a monarch butterfly.