A day of multicultural integration

Physics graduate assistant Peng Geng (left) plays a match of gomoku, a traditional Japanese logic board game, against biomedical science sophomore Rafferty Wyatt during the Multilingua Fest Nov. 17 in the Salón Cassia lobby in Brownsville. MARIO GONZALEZ/THE RIDER PHOTOS

Music education senior Alejandra Velasquez (right) learns about the International Phonetic Alphabet and different types of phonetic symbols used in linguistics during the Multilingua Fest.

Xu Tang, a special assignments staff member for UTRGV Writing and Language Studies, teaches a student the techniques of jiānzhǐ, the traditional Chinese folk art of paper cutting, during the Multilingua Fest.