The College of Arts & Sciences offers a wide variety of courses and programs in liberal arts, humanities, mathematics, social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences and communication while offering for 44 Bachelor¹s degrees, 107 Masters degrees and 18 Doctoral degrees. The College of Arts & Sciences is home to 515 tenure track faculty and 33% of all students enrolled at TTU, with 8,232 undergraduate and 1,157 graduate students. The college fills an enormous teaching role for the university. Typically A&S faculty teach more than 50% of the student credit hours at TTU, a total of nearly 190,000 hours per semester. The faculty of A&S has achieved international recognition for their scholarship and maintains outstanding research programs. Typically faculty author more than 35 books and 800 scholarly research articles each year. They are active in the presentation of their creative activity and research, making more than one thousand presentations annually. Faculty received more than $16 million dollars in external funding in support of their research programs during the 2008 fiscal year. The stories below feature some of the recent achievements by the college¹s students and faculty.
Research could lead to greater understanding of ionic liquids used in high-efficiency solar cells; cheaper, more environmentally friendly rocket fuel additives.
Beth Thacker and Kelvin Cheng will test several different areas of introductory physics instruction.
Testerman was named the top individual speaker at the tournament, while Horton was right behind as the second place speaker.
The College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Biological Sciences hosted its first annual Biological Sciences Alumni Reception in Dallas on September 24, 2009.
Psychology Student Finds Less Automation Better for Air Traffic Controllers. Recent graduate Arathi Sethumadhavan's research could help air traffic control designers know how much is too much automation.
Texas Tech paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee discovers that ancient flying dinosaur also sailed the seas.
The $978,000 grant will be used to administer the growing number of STEM educational outreach programs at the university.
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November 9-24, 2009
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November 25, 2009
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December 11-16, 2009
The College of Arts and Sciences offers an incredible variety of courses and programs. We seek to instill in our students a humanistic spirit, an appreciation of creativity, and a desire for lifelong learning.
Regardless of which program students choose, they will be well prepared to enter employment or continue with graduate or professional work
It is time to begin making plans for your graduation from Texas Tech at the end of this fall. I hope that you and your family and friends plan to attend Commencement in the United Spirit Arena Saturday, December 19, 2009.
Sally Davis, 1976 Mathematics
When Sally Davis entered Texas Tech University in 1976 it was a huge, scary step for a girl from the small West Texas town of Monahans.
“Lubbock was a really big city to me,” she said.
But this small town girl has come a long way. When the Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station in February, Davis was the woman in charge in Mission Control when astronauts deployed the Columbus Laboratory. Learn More
Dr Janet Pérez , Horn Professor, Qualia Chair, Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures
Dr. Janet Pérez has spent a lifetime learning and teaching the Spanish language and literatures. Her contributions to this area of academic study go beyond the walls of Texas Tech
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