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College of Education & P-16 Integration The STEP UP (Student Teaching Educator Preparation University Partnership) program was
recognized by the Raise Your Hand Texas Foundation to receive the Charles Butt Scholarships for Aspiring Teachers beginning in the 2018-2019 academic year.
College of Fine Arts Entered a partnership with South Texas ISD to
support high school students
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interested in the teaching profession. The Holmes Cadets program is an expansion of the Holmes Scholar Program designed to support doctoral students from historically underrepresented backgrounds pursuing careers in education.
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in Special Interest Research Groups (SIRGs) have been funded to examine various aspects of what it means to be a Hispanic-Serving College of Education and how to make this term meaningful for post-secondary education that will lead our region in innovation, thought, and educator preparation.
Established an
RGV STEM Education Consortium
that brings together P-16, for-profit, and not-for-profit stakeholders to support STEM learning and success for RGV residents.
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College of Engineering & Computer Science Home to
16
UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award Recipients.
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3 National Centers: • US Department of Energy - South Texas Industrial Assessment Center
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• University Transportation Center for Railway Safety • Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center
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UTRGV’s Civil Engineering Program Ranked the Robert C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship
“7th Best Civil Engineering Program in Texas.”
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College of Fine Arts Students and Faculty from the School of Art painted a mural in the Harlingen Rio Grande State Center Psychiatric Hospital to
address emotions through immersion in art forms such as mural painting, clay, painting, and sound.
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The Department of Theatre’s “Latino Theatre Initiative” has been invited to theatre festivals in San Antonio, Houston, and New Orleans to perform Crawling with Monsters. A production that puts an
intense focus on border concerns.
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The School of Music Mariachi Aztlan and Dance Program Ballet Folklorico have
toured the country
demonstrating precision and professional dancing and music performances from the Mexican and Rio Grande Valley Heritage.
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College of Health Affairs 15 Students attended SACNAS (Society for the Advancement of Chicano and Native American Science) national scientific conference. Ten students presented their research, Four student posters placed first in the student competition.
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Faculty from the College of Health Affairs and the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences in the College of Sciences were awarded a
$1 million, three-year research grant from the Office of Minority Health in the Department of Health Services. The project is an effort to control and prevent obesity rates in South Texas preschool children. Physician Assistant program has achieved a 5-year average of
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on the national board examination. The Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) approved an expansion of our program from 50 students to 100 students over a three year period.
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College of Liberal Arts Home to 22 UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award Recipients. The Department of Political Science sent a record
11 Legislative Interns
to work at the Texas state capitol in Spring 2017.
College of Fine Arts A faculty member in the Department of Writing and Language Studies is
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providing research mentoring to students by involving them in his project to document and preserve the Zapotec language in Mexico and they are creating a trilingual children’s storybook written in Zapotec, Spanish and English. The Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools (CHAPS) collaborative work to conduct extensive multidisciplinary research projects on
prehistoric native peoples
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as well as pioneer Valley families was recognized with the 2017 Daniel G. Roberts Award for Excellence in Public Historical Archaeology from the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA), and was further recognized on the floor of the 85th Texas State Legislature as House Resolution No. 479 honored the CHAPS Program at UTRGV for their work to raise awareness of the region’s rich cultural and natural history.
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enrollment is up
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by 20% and Graduate enrollment by 26% in Fall 2017 compared to Fall 2015.
Established
Two New Centers:
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Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Rura Advancement and Center for Vector Borne Diseases.
Established the UTRGV HIGH Scholars program in 2016 that engages high school students in research with faculty during the summer.
Over 150 students
have been mentored by faculty from the College of Sciences, Engineering or Health Affairs and several students have published peer-reviewed original research papers.
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NSF has designated UTRGV as an I-Corps Site. We are
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in the state with such a designation. This will provide students with unique hands-on experience with the innovation and business development process, to work toward the commercialization of new product or service ideas that originate both on and off campus.
one of 6 universities
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The Center for Innovation and Commercialization and our students in various entrepreneurship courses have assisted approximately
30 new ventures
with the development of business models in anticipation of new venture launches. College of Sciences
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Our PhD students over the past year have co-authored and presented over
30 scholarly papers
at various top drawer national and international academic conferences.