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 ...

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 tower stands atop the Main Building on the Brownsville campus. THE RIDER FILE PHOTO UTRGV marks its 10-year anniversary with a year of celebrations, record-breaking growth and national recognition ...

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 ...

With the NBA Playoffs well underway, one thing has been notably absent from the playoff games that we have seen this year, fans aren’t really wearing the shirts. What do I mean by that? Typically, at ...

Kevin Flores (from left), Student Government Association external vice president; Ian Alfaro, SGA president; and Kayla Johnson, SGA internal vice president, raise their hands during the oath of office ...

Evelyn Maciel, a criminal justice sophomore, participates in the piñata activity during Charreada Wednesday on the Student Union lawn on the Brownsville campus. UTRGV celebrated the 10th annual ...

9:40 a.m.: Officers responded after an employee reported a student was possibly smoking marijuana in the men’s locker room in the University Recreation on the Edinburg campus. When officers arrived, ...

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.

Always feminine care products are on display at Walmart on West University Drive in Edinburg. Aarykah Navarro/ THE RIDER The Intersectional Feminist Organization, the Student Government Association ...

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 ...