The Rider is the award-winning student newspaper of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, distributed on campus in Brownsville and Edinburg, Texas.

Civil engineering freshman Shoshana Molina presents about the American Dream during NovaRhet April 17 in the University Ballroom on the Edinburg campus. NovaRhet is a composition research symposium ...

Unofficial results for county, state and federal primary races have been released in Hidalgo County, with voters casting ballots in races, including county judge, criminal district attorney and ...

Students and faculty will now be able to work on radio frequency technologies research at the new STARGATE facility, which can open the doors for collaboration with SpaceX in Brownsville. Despite the ...

Shown are Daniel Hernandez (from left), oncology pharmacy services manager; Rachelle Gonzalez, oncology pharmacy technician; Cathy Rademacher, oncology pharmacy technician; and Arnold Villareal, ...

Mykel Del Angel serves as the Online Editor for The Rider. He is majoring in Music Technology and minors in Computer Science, with aspirations in game audio and design.

UTRGV Parking and Transportation increased the cost of most parking permits by 5% for the 2025-26 school year. The additional revenue would fund parking-lot upgrades, according to a university ...

Sundaes on Mondays: The Student Union will host Sundaes on Mondays from noon to 1 p.m. on the Edinburg campus. Attendees can enjoy free ice cream. James Talarico UTRGV: The RGV College Democrats will ...

The UTRGV Department of Intercollegiate Athletics held a grand opening for the Soccer and Track & Field Complex locker rooms last Wednesday. The locker rooms were an estimated $10 million taken from ...

Many programs at UTRGV are celebrating a decade since the university’s founding in 2015. Among them is Student Media, a program whose roots stretch back long before UTRGV existed. Before the ...

Candidatos para la Asociación del Gobierno Estudiantil (SGA, por sus siglas en inglés) se juntaron para su reunión de candidatos el 4 de marzo en el Salón Sage del Student Union en el campus de ...

Dimitra Nanou is a biology freshman from Kozani, Greece, and an outside hitter for the UTRGV Volleyball Team. In the 2025 season, she has had a total of 87 kills.