Many local college students wouldn't mind sharing a dorm room with opposite sex 

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I don't think that's right,” said Lucio, 20, a bilingual education junior at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College.

 

What's next for Lady Trappers? 

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Barros departed the Trappers' program over the summer and took her game to Texas-Brownsville for the season. In her absence, the Trappers will look for some ...

 

Candor has become an early casualty A couple of Texas politicians, both seeking re-election in November, have taken the political lie to new lows. By now people should be used to politicians’ tendency to stretch the truth. It’s hard to think ...

 

Obama signs $600 million bill for border 

San Diego Union Tribune - ‎Aug 13, 2010‎

But statistics can be deceiving, said Michael Lytle, an expert on national security and a professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville.

Budget cuts diminish UT’s edge UT President William Powers Jr. speaks at a Board of Regents meeting Thursday about the challenge of trimming the University’s budget. There’s no way around it — the 10-percent state-directed budget cut poses a ...

Obama Will Raise College Graduation Rates by Asking Politely Obama will also use the opportunity to call out conservatives in Congress on their college-hating ways: according to the Times , “advisers to Mr. Obama say he will use it to remind Americans that, with just ...

 

Experts: Improved access to standard health care could erode use of folk medicine

... not replace it, said Antonio Zavaleta, director of the Texas Center for Border and Transnational Studies at the University of Texas-Brownsville

New dean of San Diego State University-Imperial Valley campus speaks CALEXICO — As about 150 transfer students gathered information about San Diego State University’s Imperial Valley campus, they were not alone in being new to SDSU. SDSU-IV’s new dean, David Pearson, has ...

Senior Year Can Wait -- I'm Working at JPL! High school intern Jessica Liang dons 3D glasses to look at some Mars images in her cubicle at JPL. Imagine you're at school, munching on a cheeseburger during lunch ...

Cambridge Publishing's 2009 Professional of the Year Beatriz von Ohlen Gives ...

"I'm an assistant medical technical instructor at The University of Texas at Brownsville," she started. "I teach in [its] associate degree nursing ...

 

Shaghayegh Azadi-Setayesh Inducted into Cambridge Who's Who 

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At The University of Texas at Brownsville, she is responsible for instructing students in algebra, pre-calculus and calculus. Ms. Azadi-Setayesh also acts ...

 

Advanced extraterrestrial UFOs travelling with the help of Faster-than-light ... 

India Daily

Over the last several years, Astrophysicists working out of the University of Texas at Brownsville have been studying an interesting pulsar about 10000 ...

 

Future Nursing Student Wins $500 Scholarship from College Admissions Assistance 

PR Web (press release) - ‎Jul 21, 2010‎

She'll be majoring in nursing at UT Brownsville. She likes the fact that she will be close to her family while attending college.

Why putting cactus in your mouth isn't the worst idea ever Emilia’s Restaurant serves nopalitos in a broad variety of ways. One of the more popular dishes, says Silvia Contreras, manager of the restaurant at 605 West Elizabeth Street, is fajitas …

Public Schools in Emerging Region Named Among Nation's Best Rio South Texas Has Top ... In addition to offering global manufacturing companies one of the most competitive locations in the world, Rio South Texas …

Top 10 Reasons for Choosing the Online M.Ed. in Educational Technology from UT ... PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 19, 2010 – With all the options for a Masters Degree in Educational Technology available on the web, how do I know which program is best for me? 

'Less with less': Area institutes of higher education plan for deep budget cuts

... supply of school teachers, nurses and civil engineers from UTPA and the University of Texas-Brownsville failed to meet the Valley's annual job openings.

ORTIZ ANNOUNCES $25000 GRANT TO HELP PRESERVE FORT BROWN

Ortiz (D-Texas) announced a $26000 grant today to The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College by the National Park Service.

Secretary Locke Announces Recovery Act Investments to Expand Broadband Internet ... The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications & Information Administration issued …

Zumaya’s latest misfortune is sadly in character There was always something too good to be true about Detroit Tigers pitcher Joel Zumaya. He threw impossibly hard. He was impossibly charismatic, with his tattoos and his grin and his glare

Valley veterans share employment woes

UTPA enrolls an average of 400 veterans per semester, as does the University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College. However, the schools have been ...

 

Brownsville Chess Teams Get Some National Pub 

Russell Harwood, chess director at the University of Texas at Brownsville, tells Hair Balls that HBO reporter Mary Carillo, along with a film crew from ..

 

Featured fighters earn wins on Solo Boxeo Tecate show 

So far, the summer is going pretty well for Molina as he graduated from the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College last month with a ...

Better Educated Work Force Needed for Jobs in Near Future If there’s one thing on which a majority of Americans can agree, it is that there aren’t enough jobs to go around these days. But if Americans don’t become better educated, they risk finding that the opposite will ...

College of Staten Island names Vernon Mummert athletic… Vernon Mummert began his intercollegiate athletics career as an equipment manager at Drew University. That the 57-year-old Baltimore native now has a plaque in the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame speaks volumes about ...

Curandero shares insight into mystical practices 

Arjun Sanga to lead tech transfer for UT branches in San…  Arjun Sanga , J.D., has been named executive director of South Texas Technology Management, a regional technology transfer office that serves four University of Texas institutions (the UT Health ...

Experts find fault with US border strategy 

 

Rio Grande water tested for bacteria 

Path to Opportunity – Community Colleges Serving Adult… This week we posted short videos about three adult students who are pursuing education at community colleges to secure a good job and a good life: Claudia Rodriguez, a veteran of the war in Iraq, attends Texas Southmost ...

Maricopa Colleges narrows search for IT chief  Steve Chen, CIO at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College. • Marilyn Delmont, vice president and CIO for Minnesota State University. • George Kahkedjian, CIO for Connecticut State University System

South Padre Island sees signs of economic recovery 

WhiteWings Set Opening Day Roster The WhiteWings are carrying 11 position players, in third baseman Eric Gonzalez(6-0, 200, UT-Brownsville), catcher Kevin Griffin (5-10, 195, Ferrum College),shortstop Jose Fulgencio (6-1, 162, New Jersey City University), catcher/first…

SDSU-IV campus secures new dean Pearson serves as vice president for partnership affairs at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College. Pearson said the two institutions are fused into one and he is officially a University of Texas employee.

San Diego State University-Imperial Valley campus dean announced 

Hispanic High School Dropouts Less Likely to Pursue GED ... Latinas in the Rio Grande Valley, and it is a crisis with a capital 'C,'" said Tony Zavaleta, vice president of external affairs at the University of Texas at Brownsville andTexas Southmost College. "We are not keeping our students in…

Analysts: Brownsville mayor's DWI a disruption ... that an acknowledgment of his responsibility, and an apology, might help,” said Tony Knopp, professor emeritus of History at the University of Texas at Brownsville andTexas Southmost College. “But I don’t know how much.” Ahumada’s ...

Clouds Over Campus 

 

Myths of the Border, down Mexico way 

 

Baylor College of Medicine gets $14.9M NIH stimulus fund grant 

 

Study: One in six UTB students graduate on time 

Gunmen kill Reynosa public official, Valle Hermoso mayoral…Tony Knopp, a history and government professor at The University ofTexas-Brownsville, said Guajardo’s murder came at a time that PAN hardened its stance against organized crime. Knopp said the murder — likely perpetrated by drug cartel…

2010 Baseball National Championship Opening Round Qualifiers… South Carolina-Beaufort, Texas at Brownsville, Vanguard (Calif.) and York (Neb.). Four teams are making at least their 10 th trip to the National Championship led by the 29 appearances of Lewis-Clark State. Cumberland (Tenn.), Oklahoma City…

TEXAS READS: University historians offer three new books 

 

The Graduation Gap

 

CMAS to host symposium on legacy of Américo Paredes Manuel Medrano, professor of history, the University of Texas at Brownsville; Dr. Teresa McKenna, associate professor of English, American studies and ethnicity, and Spanish and Portuguese, the University of Southern California

UTPA ROTC program celebrates 30 years of producing officers 

Currently the program in conjunction with The University of Texas-Brownsville has 64 cadets, but the road to 30 years of effort has sometimes been bumpy.

 

Three finalists named for Bemidji State University presidency 

Previously, she was dean of the business school at the University of Texas at Brownsvilleand Texas Southmost College, chief academic officer at the ...

Briefly in the Arts Medrano, a history professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville, co-authored Charro Days in Brownsville and Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands .

Action 4 Investigates: Obtaining Sulfuric Acid 

 

Unique BSU-NTC partnership brings candidate to Bemidji 

Americo Paredes: In His Own Words, an Authorized Manuel Medrano of the University of Texas-Brownsville wrote the book over a ten year period from interviews he conducted with Dr. Paredes over the last few years of Paredes's life. The book, for a comprehensive and authorized biography

Final three semifinalists for BSU-NTC president From 1994-2005, she was dean of the business school at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College. She also served as chief academic officer at the University of Texas Telecam-pus MBA Online from 1996-2005

Comet Comeback: UT Dallas Vies for President's Cup 

 

Knapp, Valley Baptist hospitals to merge 

 

Economic Councils Collaborate To Bring Manufacturing Jobs To Texas

 

Joseph Nelson: Retired Dallas firefighter

 

Texas Cities, Schools, State Parks Win $32 Million in Funding for Solar Projects

 

One year after horrific bus crash, victims struggle to heal

 

Mexico violence scars border life

Bracing for budget cuts, UT hikes tuition UT-Dallas: Tuition up 3.95 percent; total cost, $5,109. UT-El Paso: Tuition up 4.45 percent; total cost, $3,284. UT-Brownsville: Tuition up 4.99 percent; total cost, $2,947. Source: UT Students at the University

UTPA, UTB tuition increases confirmed AUSTIN — Students attending the Rio Grande Valley’s two public universities will be paying more for their education over the next two years. The University of Texas Board of Regents approved tuition and fee increases for its nine academic…

New ministry at UT-Brownsville brings hope to students

... prayerwalked the University of Texas at Brownsville campus months ago, he asked God to open doors for a Baptist Student Ministry

 

Unhealthy numbers

The University of Texas-Pan American and University of Texas at Brownsville-Texas Southmost College both have nursing programs, and smaller vocational ...

 

UT System schools submit trimmed-down budgets in wake of sales-tax shortfall

The University of Texas at Brownsville — currently partnered with Texas Southmost College — indicated in their budget-reduction plan that they would have to ...

 

UNM partners up to promote U.S.-Mexico border research center

 

Hidalgo County’s mobile voting unit could lessen politiqueras’ influence

Translators, interpreters use skills to bridge communication… Dávila-Montes said UT-Brownsville is the first and only school in Texas and one of the few in the United States to offer a bachelor's degree in Spanish-English translation and interpreting. "We're working on the development of a master's…

Students young, old match wits at downtown Dallas chess tournament ... Timur Gareev, an Uzbekistan immigrant from another chess power, the University of Texas at Brownsville, massages his left eyebrow.

MU regional dean finalist can relate

Pearson is currently the vice president for partnership affairs at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, which is a community ...

 

Engagement: Muñoz-Montemayor

Manuel received his BBA in Management from the University of Texas at Brownsville, TX, and a MBA in International Trade from Texas A&M International ...

Sixth-grader has sights on chess crown

 

MU regional dean finalist proud of nontraditional background

Pearson is special assistant to the provost at the University of Texas at Brownsville, where he manages a large budget and both the academic and physical ...

 

Tick, tock, students

UT’s semester limit wouldn’t help Valley.  Public schools across the country, and especially in the Rio Grande Valley, are constantly looking for ways to get more students to stay enrolled through graduation. Those who graduate and go on to college, create the opposite problem: 

UTPA, UTB asked to make 5 percent spending cuts

The University of Texas-Pan American and the University of Texas-Brownsville are cutting $6.2 million and $2.5 million, respectively, from their general ...

Valley singer a master of political pop

 teenager with only a first-grade education but eventually got a GED and took courses at the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College.

 

University to introduce application in Spanish

The University is in the process of making the admissions process more user-friendly for the influx of Hispanic students and their parents.

 

HARLINGEN — Bobby Alton Stroud

 

Student prepares to enter graduate school at age 17 While other teenagers are fretting about college choices this time of year, UT student Cynthia Gonzalez

U.S. colleges court Hispanic families using espanol

Jerry Leigh Kalkofen

Later in life he continued his education earning his degree from Texas Southmost College in Brownsville, Texas.

 

Burned Orange

A clash over a beloved campus music club at UT-Austin portends the gnashing of teeth at schools statewide as a budgetary winter threatens to envelop higher education.

 

Dean search down to three

David Pearson, special assistant to the provost of the University of Texas Brownsville. Pearson works at a rapidly growing regional comprehensive university ...

 

BH grads have Texas Southern rolling

Lakeshore senior Adam Miller has signed to play baseball for Texas-Brownsville, an NAIA school in Brownsville, Texas. Miller, a pitcher and outfielder for ...

 

UH nears deadline to cut budget by $16 million 

 

Think Globally, Read Locally

Early on the coldest Saturday morning in memory, Tamez, a nursing professor at UT-Brownsville who looks 20 years younger than her age, sits in her modest ...

Higher education notes Included on the list were Texas A&M University at Kingsville, A&M-International in Laredo, the University of Texas at El Paso, UT-Pan American in Edinburg, UT-Brownsville

The world as we know it

However, Tony Zavaleta, a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas-Brownsville, said El Chupacabras, which translates to "the goat sucker,"

Mission school board hires new superintendent

He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Texas-Brownsville in 1985 and 1995, respectively. Gonzalez then went on to receive a ...

Radio pulses from pulsar appear to move faster than light

Astrophysicists, led by Frederick Jenet of the University of Texas at Brownsville, have been monitoring a pulsar, PSR B1937+21, which is about 10000 light ...

 

UTPA receives more than $3 million from the state to advance rapid response...

Photon8 moved its offices from New Jersey to the University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College's campus last year and is working with the ...

 

Valley medical school could boost UTHSC

... technology, mathematics and engineering programs at the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg and the University of Texas at Brownsville.

El Centro team loses games, gains experience at 'World Series' of ... ... At the tournament's opening reception Sunday night, University of Texas at Brownsville President Juliet V. García said chess has no winners and losers.

 

UT System begins planning for Valley medical school

The Home Team's Perspective on the Pan-Ams

This year University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB) is hosting the event and hence registered for the first time a C-team

 

Campaign aims to increase number of Hispanics in Catholic schools

No less than the future generation of leaders for our country," said task force co-chair Juliet Garcia, president of the University of Texas at Brownsville.

 

Chess Team Going for 4th Straight Pan-Am Victory

This year's host is UT Brownsville. UT Dallas has won the tournament three years in a row but faces its toughest competition in history this year.

Falling remittances one factor in possible peso devaluation

The volume of foreign currency entering Mexico is one of several factors that affects its exchange rate, Rafael Otero, interim dean of the school of business ...

 

Seasons of Sharing: Texas Campus Compact Texas Campus Compact is part of a national movement to promote community involvement and civic engagement. In Texas, the group is celebrating its 10-year anniversary.

 

Cartels' youth recruitment worries border authorities

Susan Ritter, a border crime expert at the University of Texas-Brownsville, said the biggest problem may be cartels making connections with existing gangs.

 

Polgar: Texas Tech chess team captures two state championships in Houston

They key battle was in round three where he defeated the top seed, Grandmaster Mauricio Flores, from UT Brownsville. He drew his teammate and roommate ...

 

An End to Open Admissions Looms at a Texas University

The other Texas school with open admissions is the University of Texas at Brownsville, the paper reported, adding that “Texas Southern University dropped ...

 

Two with Texas ties on list of top college presidents

Juliet Garcia, president of the University of Texas at Brownsville, was singled out for breaking down barriers for first-generation college students

 

UT-Brownsville Goes To Overtime To Keep Unbeaten Season Alive

BROWNSVILLE, TX -- There was drama at REK Center Field Monday night when few people expected any. UTB/TSC was expected to cruise to another ...

 

Gabe Hernandez | gabrielh@themonitor.com

Anthropologist Tony Zavaleta, who currently serves as vice president for external affairs at the University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College, ...

 

UTPA considers tuition and fee increases

UTPA and UT-Brownsville are part of the UT System. UTB expects to release its tuition and fee increase proposals in December, according to officials at that ...

 

Immigrant smugglers caught at UTB parking lot

... Mexican men remain in custody after they tried to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants through part of the University of Texas at Brownsville campus.

UTB students leery of H1N1 vaccine

Despite having ordered a large number of H1N1 vaccines, many students at the University of Texas at Brownsville said they won't be taking ...

Fossen among Authors Honored by Retention Consortium

Confusion Over Person of Interest in Brownsville Murder

The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College has established a scholarship in honor of Barry T. Horn. Horn first joined the university ...

Brownsville Police Looking for 'Lover'

Dr. Bill Strong said Horn as the "go to guy" when they worked together at the University ofTexas at Brownsville. For more than four years, ...

Zetas terrorizing Mexican border cities

... acting provost of the University of Texas at Brownsville, whose family has lived on both sides of the Rio Grande for centuries. Zeta cells have attacked ...

 

UT-Brownsville Volleyball Climbs To Unheard-Of Heights

UTB closed out the first half of its Red River Athletic Conference matches with another 3-0 victory, this time over Southwestern ...

 

Scorprions Ready For Baseball

UT-Brownsville starts the season with a four-game series against Wayland Baptist. On February the 26, they'll take on UTPA in the Al Ogletree Classic

Perry Names Waco Woman To TSTC System Board Of Directors

Hometown heroes notes: Volleyball, soccer, football and more

The Texas-Brownsville men's team is ranked No. 2 in the Golfstat NAIA national rankings. Brothers Marcus and Vince Cavazos, both Miller graduates

Hispanic pros to assist ESL students

Yvonne and David Freeman, professors at the University of Texas at Brownsville, will teach strategies and suggest materials to help English language ...

UTB/TSC RECEIVES FUNDING FROM DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Solomon P. Ortiz announced The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College received more than $240000 from the Department of Education ...

 

Mexico's Ferocious Zetas Cartel Reigns Through Fear

... Texas, Brownsville. Stray bullets flew across the river and struck the recreation center and a parked car on campus, says interim provost Tony Zavaleta.

Institute for Economic Development administrator elected NCURA ...

... and financial management positions at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and the University of Texas at Brownsville

Galactic-scale observatory planned

Indeed, NANOGrav member Fredrick Jenet of the University of Texas at Brownsville says it is possible that the pulsar network could detect gravitational ...

Josue Barrera, Human Resources Specialist

 

Tech chess masters grab top honors at Fort Worth tourney

LubbockOnline.com

... ahead of players on two of the nation's most powerful chess teams - the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Texas at Brownsville

 

Muraida Leads Men's Golf After 36 Holes at Bohmann Invitational

Concordia University Tornados Athletics

The University of Texas-Brownsville leads all teams with a 12-under 564. UT-Brownsville's Brock Crosson is the individual leader after carding a four-under ...

Brownsville's Cindy Vela stars with 'General Hospital,' 'ER' actors in new movie

Graduate student awarded Provost's Summer Research Program Scholarship

Juarez graduated in spring 2009 from the University of Texas at Brownsville with bachelor's degrees in psychology and history and has a dual language ...

 

UTB campus reopens its doors after lockdown

UT The Daily Texan‎

UT Brownsville students return to class today after a shooting directly across the border in Matamoros, Mexico forced the campus to close over ...

Campus closed after bullets cross river

Farewell reception for departing dean

Fossen Named Associate VP/Dean of Enrollment

New GI Bill Grant For Vets

Seven inducted into Hispanic 'Hall of Honor'

New Presidents or Provosts: American U. of Beirut, Chicago School ...

Green Party works to oppose US-Mexico border wall

Personnel file

Ghanaian ladies clinch American deal

Daily Debriefing

Cheating Scandal Uncovered at Texas-Brownsville

Inquiry Found 'Gross Academic Fraud' by Students and Employees at ...

UTB gets stimulus funds for research

Different Types of Border Wall Going Up Around Valley

Texas Attorney General's ruling on in-state college tuition for ...

Lara, Briseño among six to be inducted into the Hispanic Heritage ...

UTB on Alert

Perspectives: Thanks for Asking

7 vs. 7 Futbal Fiesta Soccer Classic termed a success

Grupo variado de oradores para la conferencia anual de NCLR  Juliet Garcia, miembro del consejo de administración de la fundación Ford

UD safety candidate for honor Darren O'Connor, 21, is from Cork and transferred to UD from Texas-Brownsville

Man uses masonry to create lasting works

Valley's universities becoming more competitive, says UT report

Hanna Golfer Signs To Play At UT-Brownsville

Psychiatry calls to chess champion Nelly Estrada

IM Daniel Ludwig to Participate in the 2009 US Class Chess ...

Hawks sign four transfers, three freshman

Both sides of the fence

SCHOOL BRIEFING

Local colleges prepare for offshore industry The University of Texas at Brownsville plans to ... put together any kind of customized workforce training program by pulling expertise from the UT system and ...