University of Texas at Brownsville News

FASEB MARC Program has announced the travel award recipients for the 2013 American College of Sports Medicine 60th Annual Meeting & 4th World Congress on Exercise is MedicineTM in Indianapolis, IN from May 28 - June 1, 2013.

The regents passed a motion that said maintaining the university's downtown location would "result in a compact urban campus and is the preferred location for the campus." The motion also authorizes the executive director of real estate to execute a contract with Texas Southmost College in which the University of Texas at Brownsville would lease ... (more)

A House panel on Friday scuttled a controversial plan being pushed by Sen. Juan Hinojosa , D-McAllen, to locate the first two years of medical education in Hidalgo County as part of a proposal to create a new mega university in the Rio Grande Valley.

The University of Texas System Board of Regents approved lease negotiations between UT Brownsville and Texas Southmost College that will help ease the split into two separate campuses.

The unity of Rio Grande Valley political and civic actors pushing for creation of a new University of Texas institution there could be challenged by wrangling over the location of the university's future medical school.

Immigration will be the topic of discussion of a Tuesday morning forum with three congressmen at the University of Texas at Brownsville.