Engaged Scholarship and Learning at UTRGV

🧡🏆 Thank you to ROCA, for allowing us to help students grow and lead! Congratulations on this prestigious award, and hope for many more years to come! 🎉

🌎 We’re grateful to stand alongside partners who believe in service, collaboration, and community impact!

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⭐️ Congrats to our determined Spring 2026 graduating class for utilizing UTRGV's Engagement Zone to proudly better the community!

🎉 These cords represent more than just hours, they represent communities helped, lessons learned, and being proud to serve!

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This is your final call to create something that matters. ⏳

🚀✨ Meet Angie Wills,a Studio Arts major turning ceramics into something bigger than art. Through her ESAA-funded project, she’s creating customized ceramic cups designed for individuals with limited mobility, because accessibility should be built into everything we create.

📅 Deadline to apply: June 5, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/ESAA-INFO

📝 Mental Health Proposals due this Friday!
🧠 The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health invites eligible organizations in South Texas, especially those in the Rio Grande Valley (Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, or Willacy Counties), to submit a proposal to support organizations engaged in local policy work, and to build local organizational capacity to enable sustained, strategic engagement in policy processes that advance mental wellness and address non-medical drivers of health.

🗓️ Deadline to Apply: June 5th, 2026

Rio Grande Valley Policy Initiative | Hogg Foundation for Mental Health Supporting organizations engaged in local policy work and to build local organizational capacity to enable sustained, strategic engagement in policy processes that advance mental wellness and address non-medical drivers of health.

💡🎨 Got Art? is more than an exhibition.
It’s a platform created by students, for students.

Led by Maria Rebeca Santos Chavez and Natalie Escobedo, this ESAA-funded project brings UTRGV artists into the spotlight, giving them space to be seen, heard, and taken seriously. 💫

Ready to turn your ideas into something real?
📅 Deadline: June 5, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/ESAA-INFO

What if research looked like color, texture… and something you can actually feel? 🎨✨

Using natural pigments sourced across the RGV, ESAA artists Cinthya Delgado, Clarissa Sifuentes, and Jacob Reyna transformed raw materials into a full visual experience, reviving a nearly forgotten craft and reimagining it for today.

📅 Deadline: June 5, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/ESAA-INFO

💡🎉 Don't miss this opportunity, your idea could be next!

🎥 Through Cultural Crossroads, ESAA awardee Andrik Gonzalez is capturing the realities of life along the Texas–Mexico border, demonstrating culture, identity, and the spaces where connection and division coexist.

The ESAA Fall 2026 application cycle is open, and this is your chance to explore the stories that shape our communities. 💡✨

Now it’s your turn. What will you explore?

📅 Application cycle: April 1 - June 5, 2026
🔗 bit.ly/ESAA-INFO