Jean Stephans Kavanagh, an associate professor in Texas Tech University’s Department of Landscape Architecture, died Jan. 25 after a brief battle with cancer. She was 61. (more…)

Domestic and international participants in the cotton and textile industry across the globe can now start planning for the next Texas International Cotton School, which officials said will be held August 11-22 at Texas Tech University’s International Textile Center in Lubbock. (more…)

Texas Tech University’s International Textile Center laboratory complex recently added an additional 5,500-square-feet of laboratory space, according to program officials. With the new elbow room, all high-volume, heat-producing instruments for testing fibers and yarns at the research facility were relocated to the new space, and today the expanded laboratory is fully functional. (more…)

Texas Tech University’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources today announced the selection of Jane Piercy as its new Director of Development and External Relations. She previously served as a development officer with Texas Tech University Libraries. (more…)

By Lilianna Gonzalez / The Daily Toreador / Jan. 23, 2008
Texas Tech’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources hosted its annual career fair Wednesday (Jan. 23) in the Student Union Building Ballroom. Jared Lay, assistant director of University Career Services for the college, said approximately 40 companies from around the country participated to seek future employees and possible interns. (more…)

Three outstanding students from Texas Tech University are interning this spring in significant congressional offices in Washington D.C. as part of a College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Congressional Internship Program. (more…)

Since finding a job is an exciting step toward a new career, Texas Tech’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources is moving to help students who have graduation on the horizon. The college held its annual Career Expo on Jan. 23 in the university’s Student Union Ballroom. (more…)

Randy Allen, a professor of molecular biology in Texas Tech University’s Department of Plant and Soil Science, was named the winner of the 2007 Cotton Biotechnology Award last week at the Cotton Improvement Conference, which was part of this year’s Beltwide Cotton Conferences in Nashville. (more…)

A nonprofit association dedicated to the introduction and promotion of exceptional roses recently announced that its winning gardens for the 2007 “Designing with Roses” competition included a second place finish for two students from Texas Tech University’s Department of Landscape Architecture. (more…)

A group of researchers working on sequencing the cotton genome has won the 2007 Texas Tech Research Development Fund Competition. Thea Wilkins (top), Bayer Crop Science Regents Professor in Genomics, leads a group of seven co-principal investigators on the project which won the $999,000 grant. (more…)