Schools
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Edinburg, TX·Public·Medical school
2 labs on PI Pages. It spends $91M a year on research and awards 50 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 40,284: 32,723 undergraduates, 7,561 graduate
- Postdocs
- 16
- Faculty
- 1,363 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily non-residential
Labs here
Qi Lu
Computer Science
Develop a decentralized algorithm that plans multiple shortest routes at once, so that UAVs (aerial drones) can explore promising locations on demand, collecting data quickly while saving energy for the ground robots in the swarm.
Gladys Maestre
Public Health & Epidemiology
Test whether familism, strong family ties and support, protects Mexican Americans in the San Antonio Mexican American Family Study from Alzheimer's-like cognitive decline compared with other forms of decline.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.
Life sciences$38M
Outside science$17M
Engineering$15M
Physical sciences$5M
Social sciences$4M
Earth sciences$4M