Tag: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV)

HARLINGEN — Through a $30 million dollar grant from the Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley is set to establish and build the UTRGV Diabetes Center of Excellence (UTRGV DCE), a much needed diabetes management and limb preservation clinic.

The University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley Foundation has filed a petition in state district court to amend an endowment fund created in 1989 to provide graduate school scholarships to women studying the Valley’s flora and fauna.

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley announced that since its inception in 2015 it has raised $284 million in fundraising.

Rio Grande Valley resident Jan Seale is among seven inductees to the 2024 Texas Literacy Hall of Fame, selected by the Texas Christian University Mary Couts Burnett Library, in partnership with the TCU AddRan College of Liberal Arts, TCU Press and the Center for Texas Studies. The authors will be honored at the official induction ceremony on Oct. 29.

EDINBURG — The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in its ninth year posted the institution’s highest first day enrollment ever with 34,343 students and the largest incoming freshman class of 6,962.

EDINBURG — Starting the 2024 fall semester Monday, the UTRGV Edinburg campus buzzed with the yearly return of college students back to school.

EDINBURG — “Going Varsity in Mariachi,” a documentary about Edinburg North High’s Mariachi Oro, is set to debut on Netflix next week with the group’s director, Abel Acuña, saying its nerve wracking but exciting for people to see the competitive world of high school mariachi in the Valley behind the scenes.

EDINBURG — A news conference Wednesday at the UTRGV Edinburg campus highlighted the university’s $1.5 million partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), one of eight institutions nationwide.

EDINBURG — A news conference Wednesday at the UTRGV Edinburg campus highlighted the university’s $1.5 million partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), one of eight institutions nationwide.

To better address mental health professional shortages in the Valley, a partnership between UTRGV, the STARS Scholarship fund and the LaMantia family aims to increase licensed clinical social workers through scholarships.