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  Historias Americanas: Engaging History and Citizenship in the Rio Grande Valley Documentary

  Maritza De La Trinidad, Francisco Guajardo, Dominique Taylor, and Elizabeth Salinas

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  [Chachalaca Review] - Meet Ronnie Garza | Spring 2020 Special Feature

  Ronnie Garza, Ashley Roussett, Jalissa Segura, and Chachalaca Review

  Meet Ronnie Garza, a featured artist from Volume 7: Metamorphosis Issue!

  Born in Brownsville, Texas, Ronnie Garza is an artist, director and writer, most notably known for work in As I Walk Through the Valley (SXSW 2017), a documentary rifling through four decades of the Rio Grande Valley’s music history in all its varied glory, and Pansy Pachanga (coming 2020) which explores the history of the LGBTQIA+ community from the border. Ronnie is also an experimental musician (Winter Texan) and democracy activist and works in video-journalism related to activism in Austin and The RGV. He also produces art and is a poet.

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  [Chachalaca Review] - Meet Myriam Gurba | Spring 2020 Special Feature

  Myriam Gurba, Lissette Monrroy, Kaylee Hensley, and Chachalaca Review

  Meet Myriam Gurba, a featured artist from Volume 7: Metamorphosis Issue!

  Myriam Gurba is a Mexican-American writer and visual artist from Santa Maria, California. She is known for her true-crime memoir Mean named a New York editors’ choice. Her memoir also ranked as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time by O, The Oprah Magazine. She is also the author of Painting Their Portraits in Winter which explores Mexican stories and traditions from the feminist perspective. She has graduated from UC Berkley and her writings have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Erotica (St. Martin’s) and Tough Girls (Black Books). Gurba is currently residing in Long Beach, California.

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  They Called Us Rebels: The 1968 Edcouch-Elsa Walkout

  Dan Segovia, Frank Segovia, Stephanie Alvarez, Samantha Herrera, Eduardo Martinez, and Francisco Guajardo

  They Called Us Rebels is a documentary about the 1968 Edcouch-Elsa Walkout and the Mexican-American students who organized a seminal demonstration of resistance against segregation & racism on the border of South Texas.

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  [Chachalaca Review] - Meet Norma E. Cantú | Fall 2019 Special Feature

  Norma E. Cantú, Omar Rodriguez, and Chachalaca Review

  Born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas and raised in Laredo, Texas, Norma Cantú received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Texas A&I at Laredo and Kingsville and her Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She served and taught as Chair and Interim Dean at Laredo State University, later renamed Texas A&M International University, was a senior arts administrator with the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC, and was Acting Chair of the Chicano Studies Research Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

  Dr. Cantú has published articles on a number or academic subjects including border literature, the teaching of English, quinceañera celebration and the matachines, a religious dance tradition have earned her an international reputation as a scholar and folklorist in addition to poetry and fiction. She has co-edited four books and edited a collection of testimonios by Chicana scientists, mathematicians and engineers. Her award winning Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera chronicles her childhood experiences on the border. She has published poetry in a number of venues including Prairie Schooner, Feminist Studies, and the Latina/Chicana Studies Journal. Her novel Cabañuelas, A Love Story was published in Spring 2019

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  [Chachalaca Review] - Meet Monica Muñoz Martinez | Spring 2019 Special Feature

  Monica Muñoz Martinez, Regina Lien, and Chachalaca Review

  Monica Muñoz Martinez is an award-winning author, educator, public historian, and active participant in developing solutions that address racial injustice. Martinez is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University. Her research specializes in histories of violence, policing on the US-Mexico border, Latinx history, women and gender studies, and public humanities. Born and raised in Texas, Martinez received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University.

  Her first book The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas (Harvard University Press, Sept 2018) is a moving account of a little-known period of state-sponsored racial terror inflicted on ethnic Mexicans in the Texas–Mexico borderlands. She is currently at work on Mapping Violence a digital research project that recovers histories of racial violence in Texas between 1900 and 1930.

  Martinez is a founding member of the non-profit organization Refusing to Forget that calls for public commemorations of anti-Mexican violence in Texas. The team developed an award-winning exhibit for the Bullock Texas State History Museum in 2016 that marked the first time a state cultural institution acknowledged state responsibility for this period of racial terror in the twentieth century. Martinez also helped secure four state historical markers along the US-Mexico border.

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  [Chachalaca Review] - Meet Gerald Padilla | Fall 2019 Special Feature

  Gerald A. Padilla, Omar Rodriguez, Chachalaca Review, and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Office of Student Success

  Gerald A. Padilla is a publisher, translator, educator and cultural promoter. He has worked closely with the community of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to promote Latin American Culture and Mesoamerican Culture as a strategy to validate our past and reconcile our identity. He is co-founder of the Latin American Foundation for the Arts; association dedicated to the widening and promotion of Latin American arts and culture in the United States, co-founder of the Festival Internacional de Poesía Latinoamericana (FeIPoL) in McAllen, TX., the founder and Editor-in Chief of Latino Book Review, as well as co-founder of Jade Publishing.

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  [Chachalaca Review] - Meet Maria Elena Salazar | The Chachalaca Review Vol. 2: Beyond Issue

  Maria Elena Salazar, Lissette Monrroy, and Chachalaca Review

  Meet Maria Elena Salazar!

  Maria Elena Salazar was a bilingual educator in Brownsville, Texas for 30 years. She was married to Baltazar Salazar, the love of her life, for almost 60 years. Together they had 5 children who are all college graduates. Her grandchildren are also adults, and she now has several great grandchildren. Mrs. Salazar enjoys writing poetry and short stories about her life, creating arts and crafts, gardening, and spending time with loved ones.

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  UTRGV Student Internship Panel (Fall 2019)

  University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

  Joining us for our student internship panel is Nayeli Castro, Cynthia Rodriguez, Luis Escalera, and Oscar Medrano who share their internship experiences and provide tips and advice to those students considering internships.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg_PjHhOFJ4

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  [Chachalaca Review] - Meet Griselda J. Castillo | Spring 2018 Special Feature

  Griselda J. Castillo and Chachalaca Review

  Meet Griselda J. Castillo, a featured artist from Volume 3: The Borderlands Issue!

  Griselda J. Castillo is a bilingual poet and creative nonfiction writer from Laredo, Texas. She is the daughter of Mexican immigrants, a first-generation American and explores her bicultural identity through poems and stories. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Ocotillo Review, Sparkle + Blink, and Chachalaca Review. She also performs her poetry as part of Five Voices One Brush, an improvisational art and jazz collective. Griselda lives and works in Austin. This year, she received the 2018 NACCS Tejas Foco Premio Best Poetry Book award for her book, Blood & Piloncillo.

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  [Chachalaca Review] - Meet Emma Guevara | Vol. 2: Beyond Issue

  Emma Guevara, Chachalaca Review, and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Office of Student Success

  Meet Emma Guevara! Emma Guevara is a 19 year old, Mexican-American, aspiring singer-songwriter that isn't that good but is just here to have a good time. She's currently a senior Political Science major and is really mad at Donald Trump. She hopes you like this song as it is her homage to anyone who has ever been wronged by a white boy. Deuces.

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  [Chachalaca Review] - Meet Daniella Levy | Vol. 2: Beyond Issue

  Daniella Levy, Chachalaca Review, and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Office of Student Success

  Meet Daniella Levy! Daniella lives in Israel with her husband and three sons. Her poems "Barco de Papel" and "Paper Boat" were featured in The Chachalaca Review - Volume 2: The Beyond Issue. Here, she shares how her poems came to be.

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  [Chachalaca Review] - Meet Jessica Helen Lopez | Fall 2018 Special Feature

  Jessica Helen Lopez and Chachalaca Review

  Meet Jessica Helen Lopez, a featured artist from Volume 4: The Identity Issue!

  Jessica Helen Lopez is City of Albuquerque Poet Laureate, Emeritus and the host of arts-based PBS, ¡COLORES! She has also been a featured writer for 30 Poets in their 30’s by MUZZLE and named one of the “10 Up and Coming Lantinx Poets You Need to Know” by international digital publisher and agency, Remezcla.

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  The Glory Days of Valley Football

  Gregory M. Selber

  This is a recording of Gregory Selber's presentation "The Glory Days of Valley Football". This video was recorded at the Smithsonian Institute's traveling exhibition "Hometown Teams: How Sports Shaped America" opening reception held on July 26, 2018.

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  [Chachalaca Review] - Meet Natalia Sylvester | Fall 2018 Special Feature

  Natalia Sylvester, Lissette Monrroy, and Chachalaca Review

  Meet Natalia Sylvester, a featured artist from Volume 4: Identity Issue!

  Natalia Sylvester emigrated to the U.S. with her parents from Lima, Peru when she was only four years old. She grew up in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and in Florida where she received a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Miami. Her novel Chasing the Sun was chosen as the Best Debut book in Latinidad’s Best Books of 2014 and her most recent novel, Everyone Knows You Go Home, won an International Latino Book Award and Best Book of 2018 by Real Simple magazine. Her work has appeared in Bustle, Catapult, Latina Magazine, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s Publishing, and the Austin American-Statesman, Writer’s Digest, and NBCLatino.com. Natalia is currently a freelance writer living in Austin, Texas with her husband and two dogs.

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  UTRGV Super Bowl Commercial 2014

  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Medical School to begin in Fall 2016. The new UT, UTRGV opens in Fall 2015.

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  The Evolution of Higher Education in the RGV

  University of Texas at Brownsville

  Join us as we take a journey from the formation of UT Brownsville up to now. Highlighted are milestones the university has gone through and people including Dr. Juliet Garcia, Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and the UT Board of Regents.

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  Project South Texas - A New UT

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  Project South Texas - UTPA & UTB Celebrate Birth of a New University

  Governor Rick Perry joined The University of Texas System Board of Regents Chairman Gene Powell, Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, several key Texas legislators and more than a thousand students, parents, educators and community leaders from across South Texas today to celebrate landmark legislation that authorizes the creation of a new UT university, which will include a medical school, in the Rio Grande Valley.

  The ambitious initiative -- approved by the Board of Regents in December, supported by Governor Perry in his state of the state address and made possible by a bill that garnered overwhelming support from the Texas Legislature this spring -- promises to transform South Texas by providing limitless opportunities in education and economic growth and improving healthcare for millions of Texans. The goal is for the university -- with a focus on biliteracy, bilingualism and biculturalism -- to build a world-class reputation and pursue global excellence in teaching, research and healthcare.

  "This new university and medical school will forever transform the lives of our children and grandchildren," Chairman Powell said in his comments to crowds in Edinburg and Brownsville. "And in large measure fulfill the dreams of those who have come before us and wanted the best for this part of Texas."

  Governor Perry and UT leaders visited the campuses of UT Pan American in Edinburg and UT Brownsville where the governor ceremonially signed copies of Senate Bill 24, the legislation that authorizes the creation of the new university. The university will combine the resources and assets of UT Pan American and UT Brownsville and the future South Texas School of Medicine into a single institution that spans the entire Rio Grande Valley. The UT Board of Regents has approved spending $100 million over the next decade to accelerate the pace of establishing the school of medicine.

  The new university will also have access to the Permanent University Fund (PUF), a public endowment established in 1876 by the Texas Constitution, bringing that important resource to South Texas for the first time. The PUF receives revenues from land in West Texas and earnings on investments to support institutions in the UT and Texas A&M systems. UT Brownsville and UT Pan American are the only UT System institutions that, by law, have not had access to PUF revenue.

  "This historic new university is a game-changer for South Texas, a cutting-edge, high-tech institution that will improve the quality of jobs, and quality of lives, for everyone in the Rio Grande Valley," Governor Perry said. "It will mean new doctors to treat South Texas patients, new startups utilizing discoveries made in the Valley and new opportunities for Texans all across our state. This is one of my proudest moments as Governor of Texas."

  Chancellor Cigarroa provided information on next steps for the new university in his remarks at both campuses. A UT System transition team that includes UT Brownsville President Juliet Garcia and UT Pan American President Robert Nelsen will immediately begin planning and development for the new university. The Board of Regents will soon launch a national search for a president, with the goal of selecting a president in early 2014.