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

May 9, 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 School of Nursing – during a formal hooding ceremony May 8.

May 3, 2024

The UTRGV Graduate College will hold its Spring 2024 doctoral hooding ceremony May 8 at the UTRGV Performing Arts Complex on the Edinburg Campus.

April 3, 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.

March 6, 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

March 1, 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.

March 1, 2024

Dr. Thomas B. Spencer, Associate Vice President for Research Operations at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and NASA Solar System Ambassador recently held an interview with Dr. Tian Y. Dong, an Assistant Professor in Geomorphology at UTRGV's School of Earth, Environment, and Marine Sciences.

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.

February 6, 2024

Dr. Manohar Chakrabarti, assistant professor of Plant Functional Genomics in the UTRGV School of Integrative Biological and Chemical Sciences (SIBCS), has been awarded a $503,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help develop climate-smart crops.

December 20, 2023

In an effort to bridge space science and community engagement, Dr. Thomas B. Spencer , Associate Vice President for Research Operations at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) and a newly appointed NASA Solar System Ambassador, conducted an insightful interview with renowned astrophysicist Dr. Volker Quetschke.

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.

October 27, 2023

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

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 Writers' Project 80 Years Later."

October 6, 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 education and research opportunities in STEM fields while strengthening UTRGV's academic programs.

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.

August 3, 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 journal Nature Geoscience.

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.

June 29, 2023

The UTRGV Division of Research has announced the appointment of Abby Guillory as the new assistant vice president for Research Enhancement.

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.

March 1, 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.

November 14, 2022

Arya Singh, UTRGV’s new assistant vice president for research analytics, marks his first day today at the university.

July 28, 2022

Dr. Ying Jia, lecturer in the UTRGV Department of Biology, has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to research the interaction between snake toxins and human nervous system cell receptors, ultimately for biomedical application.

July 18, 2022

Dr. Engil Isadora Pereira, assistant professor in the UTRGV School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, has been selected to participate in the 2022 U.S. Department of Agriculture’s E. Kika De La Garza Fellowship program.

June 29, 2022

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley announced today the appointment of Dr. Can (pronounced John) Saygin as the new senior vice president for Research and dean of the Graduate College, effective Aug. 1, 2022.

June 2, 2022

Dr. Michael R. Dobbs, professor and chair of the Department of Neurology in the UTRGV School of Medicine, has been awarded a $443,963 grant to research the motor recovery, along with the brain and spine degeneration, of 30 stroke survivors over the next three years.