The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Department of Intercollegiate Athletics inducted the 2023 Athletics Hall of Fame and Hall of Honor class on Saturday, including the 1975–78 men’s tennis teams, former baseball student-athletes Mike Duffey (1968-71) and Hector Salinas (1965-68), former women’s basketball student-athlete Bianca (Torre) Salinas (2009-13), and former baseball, track & field, and cross-country student-athlete D. Joe Williams (1954-57).
RIO GRANDE VALLEY – The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) Athletics Hall of Fame Committee announced on Thursday the 2023 Athletics Hall of Fame class, which includes the 1975-78 men’s tennis teams, former baseball student-athletes Mike Duffey (1968-71) and Hector Salinas (1965-68), and former women’s basketball student-athlete Bianca (Torre) Salinas (2009-13). The committee also announced that former baseball, track &
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Del Mar College s Board of Regents will interview three applicants for the vacant At-large seat left by the death of board member Hector Coach Salinas.
A special meeting has been scheduled for Friday.
The person who is selected will be sworn-in that day and will fill the remainder of Salinas term, which runs through 2024.
Candidates include local real estate investor and developer John C. Tamez, former educator and co-president and owner of Ed-Point, LLC Linda P. Villareal and regent Salinas son, Orlando Salinas.
Hector Salinas died on April 30 after battling multiple illnesses. He was 76.
The interviews will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Isensee Boardroom in the Harvin Student Center on the East Campus. The public will not be able to attend the meeting in person because of COVID-19 protocols, but will be able to view it online or access it by telephone.
UTA space physicist leads data management for NASA mission
Monday, May 17, 2021 • Linsey Retcofsky : Contact
Frederick Wilder, assistant professor of physics, and Hector Salinas, doctoral student in physics
A space physicist at The University of Texas at Arlington has received a NASA grant to support his role in a flagship mission that evaluates interactions between the magnetic fields of the sun and earth.
Frederick Wilder, assistant professor of physics, is one of five supervising scientists for the Scientist in the Loop (SITL) program under NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS). A portion of the nearly $166,000 NASA funding will allow Wilder to hire Hector Salinas, a first-year doctoral student, to join the mission.