Vaqueros for Sustainability
Vaqueros, you can't spell sustainability without U and I. The Office for Sustainability invites you to join our UTRGV strategic mission to help achieve the United Nation's 17 Sustainable Development Goals intentionally through education, research, operations, and engagement.
UTRGV Vaqueros are Valuable, Vigilant, Versatile, and Visionary Sustainable Development Leaders who are Vocal and don't back down from challenges, with strong Values that help solve problems of any scale in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and throughout the world.
Change begins with YOU and continues with US
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Vaqueros building a better Future Together and achieving Sustainable Development
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Better Together
Vaqueros connect to each other and connect to success, through innovation, resiliency, and sustainability by engaging in various projects with academic led relationships, striving to become Sustainable Development Leaders for our campus, our community, and the world.
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Small Steps Lead to Big Change
Vaqueros generate change through collaborative action in connecting the university with our campus community and partners in community engagement, research, and service-learning initiatives with the intention to build Sustainable Development.
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Serving our Communities
Vaqueros guide your interdisciplinary and innovative efforts in education and in advocacy to serve and contribute to the sustainable development and quality of life for the Rio Grande Valley and beyond the world.
Latest News in Sustainability at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
UT Health RGV expands COVID-19 testing sites, vaccine clinics
This Saturday, UT Health RGV, clinical arm of the UTRGV School of Medicine, will host a COVID-19 vaccine pop-up clinic at the men’s basketball game against New Mexico State, from 5-7:30 p.m. at the UTRGV Fieldhouse on the Edinburg Campus. UTRGV students, faculty, staff and the general public...Read More
UTRGV awarded $625,000 mental health training grant
A group of UTRGV professors have been awarded a five-year, $625,000 mental health awareness training grant to help with a project called Bridging the Way. Project Bridging the Way will train school personnel – such as teachers, counselors, administrators, school law enforcement and human resource...Read More
UT Health RGV opening COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in Edinburg
Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 4, UT Health RGV, clinical arm of the UTRGV School of Medicine, will have a drive-thru COVID-19 testing location in Edinburg. Drive-thru tests will be available by appointment, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, at the UTRGV CESS Building... Read More