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Coming home
After nearly four years away from the day-to-day operations on the Brownsville campus, Juliet V. García will return to teach a communication class in Spring 2018 on the university grounds she helped build. “I’m very[more...]
Dimensional behavior
[caption id="attachment_12646" align="aligncenter" width="550"] “Headless, Aimless, Point(ed)less Wandering” is one of San Antonio artist David Alcantar’s pieces that will be exhibited in the Art Gallery at Rusteberg Hall on the Brownsville campus. This piece, made[more...]
Golden statues of storytelling and stardom
[caption id="attachment_12413" align="alignleft" width="425"] Sergio Mendoza poses for a photo with the 2016 Lone Star Emmy for Outstanding Regional News Story-Spot News. Photo Courtesy Sergio Mendoza[/caption] Artists, writers, cameramen, directors, actors, costume designers and more,[more...]
Family, Fiction, and The Emotional Truths
[caption id="attachment_12070" align="alignleft" width="225"] Photo Courtesy Emmy Pérez[/caption] Writer and UTRGV English Professor Emmy Pérez has recently received the 2017 National Endowment of the Arts Poetry fellowship. The endowment offers $25,000 grants to fiction and[more...]
Edinburg author wins two awards
[caption id="attachment_11914" align="alignleft" width="192"] Photo Courtesy Emma Gonzalez[/caption] Latino Literacy Now has recognized Edinburg resident Emma Gonzalez with two awards for her book, “Field Mice: Memoirs of a Migrant Child.” The Latino Literacy Now organization,[more...]
Expressions of the Wandering Artist
Art comes in many forms and mediums. Whether it be on a canvas with oils and paints, or on the street corner garage decorated with graffiti, art is a story of someone’s unique imagination and[more...]
Toto, we’re not at UTRGV anymore
[caption id="attachment_11534" align="aligncenter" width="2100"] “If I’m able to make at least one person smile in the audience, then I did my job right,” actor Michael Velazquez said. Sydni Salinas/The Rider[/caption] Most actors and actresses know[more...]
Meet Yajaira Lopez
Name: Yajaira Lopez Major: Dance Hometown: Mission What made you pursue that major? “I’ve been dancing my whole life, ever since I was a little girl, but it wasn’t until middle school that I got[more...]
