Yuliana Quiroz 
EDINBURG – Last week, UTRGV received a 38-million dollar gift from the Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation.
This is said to be the largest single donation given to an institution of higher education in South Texas.
The donation will establish “THRIVE”, Transform Health Research in the Valley and Elsewhere, which will provide medical services in surgery and clinical genetics to the Rio Grande Valley.
Allowing a research workforce, THRIVE is said to help UTRGV achieve Emerging Research University or E-R-U status. All of this according to a press release from the newsroom at UTRGV.
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