A spate of spring rains has brought smiles to the faces of farmers across West Texas, most of whom weathered a miserably hot and, ultimately, unprofitable summer season last year. The Texas South Plains is in a lot better shape this time around, agrees Glen Ritchie, a crop physiologist with Texas Tech’s Department of Plant and Soil Science. (more…)

A nationally-recognized professor of agricultural and applied economics has been named a Horn Professor by Texas Tech University. It is the highest honor he can receive from the university. Thomas Knight, who is Texas Tech’s Emabeth Thompson Professor of Risk Management, was approved today (May 13) by the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents. (more…)

A Texas Tech agricultural communications professor has been named a Fellow in the American Association for Agricultural Education. David Doerfert was selected for the honor on May 18 at the group’s annual conference in Asheville, NC. (more…)

A graduate student from Texas Tech’s Department of Natural Resources Management took third place honors for her research poster at the latest Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society’s annual meeting in Fort Worth. Rasika Ramesh, a master’s student from Thiruvananthapuram, India, focused her program on “An Amphibian’s Dilemma: Wetland Site Selection and Community Assemblages in an Urbanized Setting.” (more…)

Texas Tech is offering a special summer school class that focuses entirely on West Texas’ most important agricultural crop – cotton. For two weeks during the height of the summer season, the university’s students will be able to sign up for a non-traditional classroom experience known as the Texas International Cotton School. (more…)

Four students from Texas Tech’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources will be spending their summer working as interns in the nation’s capital. Running from the end of May through the first of August, the college’s summer intern program affords selected students an opportunity to experience first-hand the government’s day-to-day operations. (more…)

Texas Tech has awarded a President’s Interactive Scholarship to an outstanding junior from the Department of Agricultural Education and Communications. Faith Jurek of Goldthwaite was one of three scholarship recipients honored at a special award luncheon on Friday (May 11) in Lubbock. (more…)