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UIW Graduate Honored as Texas Clinical Teacher of the Year

October 11, 2024

Abigail Sarabia, a recent graduate from the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) Dreeben School of Education, believes she may have been born to be a teacher. Now, in what can only be considered a full circle moment, she is being honored for the teaching work she has done in the very school where she first found her teaching inspiration. Sarabia was recently named the Clinical Teacher of the Year by the Texas Directors of Field Experience for her work at Huebner Elementary in the North East ISD… the school from which she has her most cherished teaching childhood memories.

UIW Hosts First Hispanic Heritage Symposium in Honor of Hispanic Heritage Month

October 11, 2024

From Monday, Oct. 7 through Thursday, Oct. 10, UIW hosted its inaugural Hispanic Heritage Symposium, a three-day event featuring several UIW affiliated speakers. They explored the vibrancy of the Hispanic culture as reflected through education, research, community service and artistic expression.

UIW Professor Receives Major Grant for Breast Cancer Research

October 8, 2024

For University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) Assistant Professor Dr. Charles Fermaintt the fight against breast cancer is personal. His mother was diagnosed and survived breast cancer in 2016. Now, Fermaintt is taking on one of the most aggressive forms of the disease in his research being done right here at UIW. That research has just been awarded a grant of more than $500,000 over the next three years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).