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UTRGV Awarded NSF Grant For SaLT Program

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The NSF's HSI Program has awarded a $199,838 grant to the UTRGV Center for Teaching Excellence’s SaLT program. Alyssa G. Cavazos, director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and associate professor in the UTRGV Department of Writing and Language Studies, is principal investigator on the project. (Courtesy)

The National Science Foundation Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions has awarded a $199,838 grant to the UTRGV Center for Teaching Excellence’s Students as Learners and Teachers program.  The SaLT program encourages collaboration between trained students in teaching with instructors who teach undergraduate core mathematics coursework, which could assist in retention and student success efforts. This innovative teaching approach also could enhance high-quality, equitable instructional practices in undergraduate mathematics classes.  The grant, set to…

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Villalobos Becomes UTRGV’S First AMS Fellow

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Cristina Villalobos (photo Paul Chouy, UTRGV)

Associate dean for the UTRGV College of Sciences Cristina Villalobos has been elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society “for contributions to modelling and optimization and for broadening the participation of underrepresented groups in mathematics.” Villalobos, who is also a Myles and Sylvia Aaronson endowed professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, becomes the first UTRGV faculty member to be named an AMS fellow. “It is an honor to have…

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