Texas Tech students may be noticing a new calendar gracing the university’s office cubicles and dormitory walls, a home-grown reminder that’s in direct competition with more traditional counterparts featuring cuddly pets and cartoon characters. (more…)

Texas Tech University’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources recognized its 2009-2010 Dean’s Scholars at 4 p.m. Feb. 27 at the International Cultural Center. “These scholarships were established by the college to reward academic excellence and to support studious young men and women who choose to major in agricultural and natural sciences,” said Dean John Burns. (more…)

With the spring growing season on the horizon, Texas Tech University’s Agricultural Economics Association has announced that it is holding its annual fertilizer sale. Officials said this is an excellent opportunity to purchase an annual supply of complete lawn and garden fertilizer with added benefit of free delivery. (more…)

Texas Tech’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources on Friday extended a deadline to apply for their fall semester congressional internship program. Officials had originally set a deadline of Jan. 30 but extended it to March 9. (more…)

Fresh off earning a master’s degree in agricultural communications from Texas Tech University in December, Katie Leigh has joined the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources’ Department of Plant and Soil Science as its new communications and recruiting coordinator. (more…)

Texas Tech University’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources recognized six distinguished alumni Monday (Feb. 16) at the Merket Alumni Center. The Distinguished Alumnus Award was established to recognize some of the most outstanding alumni of Texas Tech’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. (more…)

While traditionally associated with cows and plows, today’s collegiate 4-H organizations, led by more than five dozen top-flight students at Texas Tech University, are broadening their campus footprint with outreach programs and community service. (more…)

It’s not all horsing around with Texas Tech’s Ranch Horse Team; hard work is involved too. Kris Wilson, an animal food and science professor at Tech, founded the team in 2005. (more…)

Texas Tech University’s meat judging team proved once again that it was tops in sizing up meat as they walked away with first place honors Feb. 7 at the highly competitive Southwestern Livestock Show’s Meat Judging Contest for senior colleges in Fort Worth. (more…)

Environmentally ‘green’ long before it was a beltway buzzword, Larry Butler is an old school conservationist. The owner of Weatherford-based Texas Legacy Lands, a ranch and wildlife management service, honed his stewardship of the environment early as an undergraduate at Texas Tech University some three decades ago when where he was a member of what was the plant identification team. (more…)