Before UTSA and UT Health SA merge in September, UTSA President Taylor Eighmy, who'll lead the merged institution, will also lead UT Health SA Feb. 1.

John Vale ’13 graduated from the UTSA College of Sciences with a bachelor’s degree in biology. He has since built a career in entrepreneurship as a restaurateur in San Antonio. Now the owner and founder of both Alamo Biscuit Company & Panaderia and Texas Associates Insurance,

The San Antonio Express-News obtained a Police Department presentation that shows violent and property crime across the city fell in 2024.

JANUARY 29, 2025 — UTSA and the San Antonio Food Bank (SA Food Bank) jointly announced a $1.25 million gift today from local philanthropist and longtime supporter of both institutions Harvey E. Najim. The gift will help drive the missions of both organizations to fight food insecurity across UTSA’s campuses and the broader San Antonio community.

Dr. Francisco G. Cigarroa, a noted transplant surgeon, was named senior executive vice president for health affairs.

A beloved figure in Alamo City, Joe Bernal is best known for championing early bilingual education laws. He was 97.

A local UT Health San Antonio doctor has been appointed to the Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Long COVID.

JANUARY 17, 2025 — On the eve of a historic merger between UT Health San Antonio and UTSA, researchers from the two institutions have been honored with highly prestigious 2025 Hill Prizes, in medicine and technology.

JANUARY 27, 2025 — The UTSA Office of University Strategic Communications has earned The University of Texas System’s top award for communications strategy for its storytelling about the university’s multifaceted space science and research initiatives.

Gutierrez, professor and chair of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio has been appointed to the U.S. Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Long Covid.

For the past several years, local middle-school and high-school students have teamed up to try and make San Antonio a more sustainable city through SA Smart, the mayor’s K-12 Smart City Challenge. The students have tackled a range of specific challenges, such as the digital divide, transportation and water systems.

Bernal served in the state House and Senate from 1964 to 1972, where he fought for bills that ended de jure segregation in Texas and the creation of the University of Texas at San Antonio and the UT Health Science Center.