Portraits

NCAA employee Gail Dent, smiles, as she poses for a photo at the headquarters in Indianapolis. 

Maddy Miller is  coming back from the unknown after forgetting months of her life trying to find a diagnosis.  She was paranoid, had erractic behavior, exhausted, could not remember how to tie her shoes or even spell simple words.   But she doesn't remember any of this.  Finally at the pediatric neurology ward at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics  Miller diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (anti-NMDAR encephalitis), a rare neurological autoimmune disease that can cause seizures, hallucinations, memory loss and even death. 

Paul and Martha Zerfas met as art majors at Grand Valley State University and have been married for 44 years.

Dora Cantu, UTRGV English and Mexican American Studies student from Hidalgo, photographed at her preferred studying area in the University Library in Edinburg, Texas. 

Lidia Garcia, UTRGV Computer Science student from Brownsville, submitted the winning entry in the President's Holiday Card Contest. 
 

UTRGV police Lt. Van Slusser photographed for a feature on Friday, Nov. 8, 2019 in Edinburg, Texas. 

Sydney Blitchok will be graduating with a degree in journalism in December.

Morgan Kofoid will be graduating from the College of Nursing in December.

Students getting off campus shuttle

Student Emilio Guido interviewed Holocaust survivor Theofanis Orfanos, who was captured at 15 by the Nazis and survived 18 months of captivity, for his new documentary film, Laugh Now: A Perspective on Life, Liberty & the Holocaust.