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The Pan American - Festival de la Hispanidad
The Department of Modern Languages and Literature host Festival de La Hispanidad, which celebrated the Hispanic culture.
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The Pan American - Health Cooking 101
New ways to find quick and easy snacks for a healthy diet. Healthy Cooking 101 presentation is now held every first Thursday of the month at the Wellness and Recreation Center.
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The Pan American - HESTEC 2011 Overview
HESTEC 2011 was held Sept. 26 thru Oct. 1 at various locations on campus.
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The Pan American - HESTEC Week Bill Nye
Comedian and scientist Bill Nye is a guest speaker during Education Day.
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The Pan American - Interlocking Animals
New art exhibition at the UTPA Library opens for the public. Reporter Martha Flores discovers what new talent is at UTPA.
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The Pan American - InterVarsity Prayer and Fasting - Retreat of Silence
Students at UTPA gather at the Lord's Chapel to engage in a religious experience.
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The Pan American - King Tutankhamun
King Tutankhamun stops by UTPA Visitors Center just in time for HESTEC week.
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The Pan American - Maki Sushi Bar
Rosa Rodriguez tries Maki Sushi Bar on University Drive. Watch to find out what Maki Sushi Bar has to offer.
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The Pan American - Man On The Street Finals Week
Dimitra Hernandez asks students what they did to study for finals and what they plan to do after.
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The Pan American - Midnight Madness 2011
The Pan American gets a closer look at the eventful night of Midnight Madness.
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The Pan American - Miguel Abiel Trevino
Interview with Miguel Abiel Trevino, a musician studying at UTPA.
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The Pan American - Monikapolitan
Matthew Mendoza finds boutique owner, Monika Cavazos, at the McAllen Art walk. Check out what this UTPA student has done so far with her business.
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The Pan American - Occupy McAllen
10/6/2011 Occupy Mcallen Rally Reporter: Fabian Moreno @ Archer Park McAllen, TX
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The Pan American - Pan American Walk
Reporters Larissa Garza and Pamela Morales ask students if they know the administrators at UTPA.
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The Pan American - Pan American Walk: SGA
Reporter, Pamela Morales, asks students if they know the president and vice president of SGA. Special guests: Executive team of SGA explain the role of the organization.
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The Pan American - Pumpkin Carving Contest
Students participate in a pumpkin carving contest held at the Student Union.
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The Pan American - Rain at UTPA
Reporters head out the COAS building to check out how students are handling the rain in the drought.
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The Pan American - RGBeats - Deviance
Valley metal band Deviance talk about getting their start, writing music and their plans for the future.
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The Pan American - RGBeats - Mayberry
After nearly four months on hiatus, members of Edinburg pop band Mayberry are ready to hit the Valley music circuit. The band will be playing their new music at Moonbeans Coffee in McAllen Dec. 16. For the full story, visit panamericanonline.com/arts-life
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The Pan American - Rock the Choice Concert
Vox Voice for Planned Parenthood hosts another year of informing the public about their goals and mission as advocates for women and health.
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The Pan American - Rock the Vote
UPB hosts "Rock the Vote" to help students register to vote for next year's presidential election.
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The Pan American - Rocky Horror BKSTG
Highlights of the exciting, and wild cast of Cine El Rey's Production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show!
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UTPA Bronc Holiday Spirit 2011
Holiday Video Credits In order of appearance: Dr. Robert S. Nelsen, UT Pan American President Bucky the Bronc Letty Garza -- UTPA Alum ('83), KRGV-TV Channel 5 news anchor Tim Smith, KRGV-TV Channel 5 chief meteorologist Ryan Marks, NCAA Division I Men's Head Basketball Coach Broncs Basketball Team Broncs Cheerleaders Linda Matthews, Chair, Department of Management Penny Simpson, Associate Dean, College of Business Administration Jerald Hughes, Associate Dean, College of Business Administration Joo Jung, Professor, Department of Management Sibin Wu, Professor, Department of Management Jorge Gonzalez, Professor, Department of Management John Sargent, Professor, Department of Management Michael Abebe, Professor, Department of Management The Pan American Student Newspaper: Roxanne Garcia, Editor in Chief; Alma Hernandez, Editor in Chief; Pamela Morales, Multimedia Editor Valley Symphony Orchestra with Dr. Peter Dabrowski, Music Director Pete Gonzalez, Physical Plant Andy Hernandez, Physical Plant Elizabeth Lopez, Physical Plant Edgar Cantu, Physical Plant Student Government Association: Vice President Jorge Galindo and the SGA Senate UT Pan American Students President Robert S. Nelsen, Jody Nelsen and Bucky the Bronc Extra Special Thanks Valley Symphony Orchestra and Chorale Student Union Office of Student Development Dean of Students Department of Intercollegiate Athletics UTPA Visitors Center Physical Plant Department of Management All of our faculty, staff, students and alumni, who exude Bronc Spirit every day. GO BRONCS! Creative Team Video Services: Michael Sandoval, Kevin Shropshire, Jesus Gutierrez, Fernando Martinez, Armando Artidiello, Johnathan Cox Studio Twelve01: Danny Cardenas, Sally Mendiola, Kimberly Selber Web Services: Russell Dove, Ana Flores, Kumar Raman
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UTPA COBA "Finance, Insurance, & Real Estate Symposium"
Owning a business involves risk and planning for its long-term success. The UTPA COBA hosts a conference on business risks and how to mitigate these through proper planning and implementation. Guest speakers include the Texas Department of Insurance; Texas Tech University; HAGA; Farmers' Insurance Group; Insurance Council of Texas; and local business
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UTPA News - Art foundry receives donation from Edinburg Volunteer Fire Department
Magdiel "Fonzi" Alfonso meticulously sprinkled a white plaster mixture over the clay bust of Medal of Honor recipient U.S. Army Sgt. Jose Lopez before carefully covering it with a fiber for added protection. The mold will go through a series of processes before it shapes about 200 pounds of bronze into a statue. That's when Alfonso and a team of other artists at The University of Texas-Pan American's art foundry will need to take serious precautions, as the bronze being poured into the mold can reach 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit. "It feels like you have a hot iron on your skin," Alfonso, who graduated from UTPA earlier this month with a bachelor of fine arts degree and continues to work with the University's art department, said about getting close to the foundry. The artists wear protective clothing to avoid injury, but the foundry's supplies were limited — until now. The Edinburg Volunteer Fire Department donated six sets of protective helmets, jackets, pants and gloves to the foundry to keep artists safe when working with the molten metal. Shawn Snider, the fire department's chief, said the gear is no longer useable by firefighters to enter burning buildings, but is safe for the artists to use when working in the foundry. "I think for the intended purpose here, which is to protect students who are learning a trade and a craft in a university setting, it is more than appropriate and is very good use of equipment that otherwise would be destroyed," Snider said. "I'm really happy they have a use for it." This is the first time the department has donated old gear to the University, but it has given items to volunteer firefighters in Mexico before, Snider said. The art department has some fire-resistant clothing, but those articles of clothing are old. The fire department's old gear is much more effective in protecting the artists and students when they are pouring the bronze into molds, said Douglas Clark, a master sculptor and lecturer in UTPA's art department. "This is much newer and much more comfortable," Clark said. "It'll be a great help to us." It takes between three and five people to prepare and pour bronze into molds for sculptures, Clark said. The department's donation will provide protection for more people. All students are required to view safety videos and perform a "dress rehearsal" of all the equipment before working with the bronze or other metal, Clark said. Since opening a year and a half ago, the UTPA art foundry has created several sculptures for area birding centers, municipal centers and local and state cemeteries, as well as produced about 100 student sculptures, Clark said. Write up By Jennifer Berghom, Public Affairs Representative.
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UTPA News - Steven P. Schneider
Steven P. Schneider is Professor of English at The University of Texas-Pan American, where he also serves as Director of New Programs and Special Projects for the College of Arts and Humanities. Steven is a founding member of the South Texas Literacy Coalition in the Rio Grande Valley and is the recipient of two Big Read grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has used the Borderlines: Drawing Border Lives traveling exhibit to promote the teaching of culturally relevant literature and creativity. Steven offers a variety of workshops on these topics to both high school and college students and teachers. Steven Schneider has published his poetry widely and given readings throughout the United States, including public performances at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, the Fort Kearny Writers' Conference, the UTPA Summer Creative Writing Institute, and the South Texas Literary Festival. He has also been interviewed and read his work on NETV. Steven Schneider's poems and essays have been published in national and international journals, including Critical Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Tikkun, The Literary Review, and featured in American Life in Poetry. He is the author of several books, including two collections of poetry, Prairie Air Show and Unexpected Guests, a scholarly book entitled A.R. Ammons and the Poetics of Widening Scope and the editor of Complexities of Motion: New Essays on A.R. Ammons's Long Poems. He is a winner of an Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poetry and a Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship.
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UTPA News - Texas Grant
The state is expected to approve allocating approximately $23.2 million to UTPA for the TEXAS (Toward Excellence, Access and Success) Grants for the coming school year, which will allow the University to provide financial aid to about 3,000 returning students and roughly 1,500 new students. UTPA President Robert S. Nelsen hailed the decision of the Texas Legislature to continue providing TEXAS Grants. During the most recent Legislative session funding for the grants was threatened to be cut under the House's proposed budget. Nelsen had been a strong proponent of keeping the grants in the state budget and urged lawmakers during Legislative committee meetings to continue providing funding for them. In April, the Legislature came to a compromise that would provide the grants to about 33,000 students statewide. "We are extremely fortunate to have received a $23.2 million allocation for TEXAS Grants. This funding represents our future—the future of the students of the Rio Grande Valley and the state's commitment to higher education," Nelsen said. "We are very pleased that the Legislature did the right thing." This is the largest first allotment the University has received — UTPA usually receives an allotment for the grants in the beginning of the school year and another one toward the end of the school year if other state institutions do not use all of their money for the grants — according to Elaine Rivera, executive director of UTPA's Student Financial Services. Rivera and other UTPA officials said they are relieved and excited about the news because the Legislature considered not offering the grants for the next biennium (school years 2011-2012 and 2012-2013). Rivera said she and her staff did not include those grants in determining financial aid packages for students because of the possibility of that money not being available. In order to provide aid to more students, the maximum award for the TEXAS Grant will be $5,000 instead of $7,100, Rivera said. That can still help pay tuition for 12 credit hours for the fall and spring semesters each, she added. "Now our students don't have to worry about how to pay for tuition and fees," she said. Previous recipients of the grants said without that money, they would have struggled to pay for school. The TEXAS Grants allowed Corinne Garza to pay for books and transportation from her home in Pharr to the Edinburg campus. "The grant helped me each semester from beginning to end," said Garza, a junior majoring in criminal justice. "If I didn't get the TEXAS Grant, I would have to ask for loans. It really does help me get through the semester. By not having that extra money I would struggle a little more." Garza, who has received TEXAS Grants every semester she has been at UTPA, said the University has increased her award amounts because she has kept up her grades. She started with a $2,700 award and last year she received $3,700. Thanks to the TEXAS Grants, Tina Marroquin didn't have to fret over how she would pay for her first year of school in the 2010-2011 school year. Marroquin, now a rising sophomore at UTPA who is majoring in nursing, received a TEXAS Grant for the Spring 2011 semester. If she had not received the grant she would have had to take out $2,000 in loans. "It (the grant) covered most of my tuition," she said. Marroquin, who relies on grants and scholarships to pay for her education, said she received a scholarship just for the Fall 2010 semester because she graduated from PSJA High School in the top 10 percent of her class. Were it not for the Texas Grant, she would have had to take out loans to pay for school. Marroquin, who works at the Student Financial Services' Express Lab helping other students apply for financial aid, said she gives everyone the same advice: "Try to apply for as many grants and scholarships as you can so you won't have to pay loans."
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UTPA News - Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh's Tomb
Thirty three centuries ago a young pharaoh, worshiped as a god, was laid to eternal rest, his rule mysteriously cut short by an unknown tragedy. Hidden in darkness beneath the deserts and for over 3 millennia, his spectacular golden treasures were finally brought to light with their discovery by Howard Carter in 1922. These artifacts toured the world and have returned to Egypt. Using marvelous reproductions the exhibit, Tutankhamun: Wonderful Things from the Pharaoh's Tomb recreates these artifacts. Crafted from the same ancient, traditional designs, the riches in this awesome collection of reproductions captures 130 artifacts which present a composite portrait of an ancient individual and the remote times in which he lived. Come and explore the splendor of the boy pharaoh's life. Experience the wonderful things from the pharaoh's tomb as it transports you to a vanished world and evokes the eternal mystery that is King Tut. Event Location: UTPA Visitors Center Event Dates: September 26 2011 - January 4 2012 Admission Price: Admission is free. Exhibit Hours: Monday-Friday 9 a.m. -- 5 p.m., Saturday: 9 a.m. -- 2 p.m., Sunday: closed
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Veteran's Day Celebration 2011: Implementation of UTPA's 1st Veteran Memorial Wildscape Garden
The University of Texas-Pan American honored its students, faculty and staff who have served our country during a Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 11, 2011 held at the UTPA Chapel Lawn. During the event, UTPA President Robert S. Nelsen and veterans Anthony Beltran, a graduate student in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and president of the SALUTE National Veterans Honor Society, and Dennis McMillan, associate vice president for Student Affairs, spoke about the need for UTPA and other institutions of higher learning to continue helping and supporting their student veterans. The UTPA Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) presented the Colors and a student played taps while cadets fired a cannon to honor those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Earlier that day, the ROTC participated in the Remembrance Day National Roll Call by reading the names of the more than 6,000 service members who died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Cómo Hacer Negocios en los Estados Unidos: Un Enfoque de Alcance Binacional
¡Esta conferencia brinda las herramientas necesarias para establecer su negocio o exportar a los EEUU, incluyendo el Valle de Texas!
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Export Symposium: Make the World Your Market!
Business owners learn to access global market information & about available help from the U.S. Export Assistance Center at this event by UTPA SBDC, Lone Star National Bank, & McAllen Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
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Hauser Lab Grand Opening
The University of Texas-Pan American will celebrate the grand opening of the Hauser Communication Research Lab Thursday, Feb. 11 at noon. The lab, which is housed in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building, Room 172, was created to enhance students oral competencies, including developing and assessing students speaking and presentation skills. A lot of first impressions are based on your abilities to speak and speak well. Speech determines perceptions of intelligence, credibility and confidence, which is why this lab is so important, said Dr. Timothy Mottet, Henry W. and Margaret Hauser Endowed Chair in Communication. In keeping with the wishes of the late Hausers, Winter Texans who were Mottets endowed chair benefactors, the funds from the endowment were to be used to help students graduate with excellent oral proficiency. The 625-square-foot lab is comprised of three areas one a suite of offices for graduate assistants, one a speaking/research lab, and one an observation room. The lab is equipped with two remote controlled cameras and six ceiling microphones that have the ability to capture naturally occurring conversations. The observation room contains transcription software, videotaping equipment, and one-way mirrors for use in experimental trials. The lab is currently open to all students in the College of Arts and Humanities and can help students prepare for presentations and speeches, or address their anxiety about public speaking. Everyone experiences some form of communication apprehension, said Marisa L. Saavedra-Flores, director of the lab. Having confidence in how you communicate is so important to being a confident individual and a confident citizen of the world. We want to show students that anyone can improve with practice. Saavedra-Flores said trained speech coaches are available to help students develop their presentational speaking skills. Students will present their speech to a coach and their speech will be digitally recorded and then played back to the student while in the lab so the coach and student can discuss ways that students can enhance their delivery. The recording of the students presentation will be transferred to a students thumb drive or DVD for later reference. We want to provide students with a safe and private opportunity where they can refine their work before they present it publically, Saavedra-Flores said. The lab will also be available for faculty and graduate students to conduct communication research. I hope this lab serves to stimulate research productivity of the faculty, Mottet said. The lab has the equipment that enables faculty to do the types of research that they currently want to do. Mottet said he hopes this lab will reintroduce the importance of speaking and listening across the curriculum on the campus because it is very important in todays workforce. Human resource directors across the United States often cite communication skills, specifically speaking and listening skills, as the top skills they are looking for in applicants, Mottet said. The lab will help students find their voice, defend their ideas and see themselves speak. My hope is that they will claim their voice and learn how to use it well and ethically. The lab hours are Mondays, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.; Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; Thursdays 8 a.m.-6 p.m.; and Fridays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Appointments to use the lab can be made in person at COAS 172.
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Library Lee Likes the Library short film
University of Texas Pan American
Library Lee Likes the Library, by Lisa Beccera. Chapter 1: Library Lee versus the gum. Chapter 2: Library lee versus the bad book guy. Chapter 3: Library lee versus the talker.
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Lisa Ling UTPA Visit
On Feb. 2, TV journalist Lisa Ling told her Rio Grande Valley audience that treating everyone with respect, as a human being is the key to her success in telling stories that have impacted many lives. Ling, a correspondent for National Geographic and the Oprah Winfrey show, was the third speaker in the 2009-10 Distinguished Speakers Series (DSS) at The University of Texas-Pan American. She shared her experiences with more than 1,000 UTPA students, faculty, staff and individuals from the surrounding community. TV journalist Lisa Ling spoke Feb. 3 at UTPA as the third speaker in the 2009-2010 Distinguished Speakers Series held annually at the university. After an official welcome from Dr. Paul Sale, provost and vice-president of Academic Affairs, Dr. Tim Mottet, professor and Henry W. & Margaret Hauser Chair in Communication and student DSS committee member Olga Gomez, Ling described how her initial interest in a TV journalism career came about. As a child the television was my favorite babysitter, said Ling. I used to have fantasies about being part of this box. Ling started with internships and eventually obtained a job at Channel One News, a news program for teens broadcast in U.S. middle and high schools, where she was one of eight correspondents. There she started volunteering to travel to places she said she could not even identify on a map to cover stories about pressing issues and wars. Traveling to different countries such as Afghanistan and seeing the effect of war and violence is what compelled me to pursue journalism, said Ling. It was not about just being on television anymore and having a good life, but about telling a story that people otherwise might never know of. Ling presented clips of stories she had covered such as Surviving Maximum Security, Columbia: The War Next Door, The Worlds Most Dangerous Gang and Chinas Lost Girls. She explained how she went into each story with American glasses and came out with new perspectives and realizations on the world. Later she became one of the youngest members of the daytime talk show The View, but said she found it to be challenging because stories she pitched were frequently labeled as not important. Producers would tell me great effort Lisa, but these stories are not important to Americans, said Ling. I could not wrap my mind around how these stories could not be important, it was time to move on. As a field correspondent for National Geographic Channels Explorer as well as the Oprah Winfrey show, Ling said she has received great feedback on her stories addressing often less reported on topics such as gang rape in the Congo. She said the violence she has witnessed as a reporter has tested her faith. If there is a God, why does he let this happen, Ling said. Reassurance, she said, came in the form of a poem titled Why from her husband in which he pointed out that God also made you (Ling). Ling concluded by reading a poem she wrote, Bride at 7, describing the arranged child marriages to older men that occur in a number of cultures worldwide and the physical and emotional damage it causes the young brides. Ling said Oprah once commented on the public impact of her reports on topics such as this. Oprah said, Now that you know, you cant pretend that you dont, Ling said. Mottet called Lings reporting inspirational. Lisa has redefined journalism and the power of a question, Mottet said. The next Distinguished Speaker will be Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of "The Devils Highway," on March 23, 2010.
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Office of International Programs: Pan American Days 2010
Hosted by the Office of International Programs, Pan American Days serves to provide the University community and the public with a wide range of academic and cultural activities that appeal to all ages and nationalities.
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Performance poetry - Amalia Ortiz
University of Texas Pan American
Amalia Ortiz, one of the featured poets at the 3rd Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival performs one of her poems in the UTPA Library Faculty Lounge on April 23, 2010. Video clip by Carl Nelson.
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Spray Paint - Meagan Shropshire - UTPA Student
UTPA Student spray painting art outside the art Building by a tree
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Theater: Much ado about nothing
Shakespeare's classic comedy about the battle of the sexes, set south of the Rio Grande, is truly about something - the human heart/el Corazon - and how it defines our relationships with others.
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Theater: What Mothers Do
This new play by co-authors Brian Warren and Marlene Galvan honors all mothers everywhere in a fun-filled story that illustrates the love mothers have for their families. This is the third and final play in the "Holiday Trilogy" by the authors who also wrote Golden Cobwebs and The Piper and the Rats.
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UTPA Commencement - Fall 2010 - 1:30 p.m
The University of Texas-Pan American. Honoring the College of Arts and Humanities, and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
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