Texas Tech University College of Arts & Sciences
Welcome to the College of Arts & Sciences
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.
Partnership in Ireland, Italy Yields New Discovery
Research could lead to greater understanding of ionic liquids used in high-efficiency solar cells; cheaper, more environmentally friendly rocket fuel additives.
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Texas Tech Physics Professors Earn NIH Grant
Beth Thacker and Kelvin Cheng will test several different areas of introductory physics instruction.
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Debate Team Still in Top Position Nationally
Testerman was named the top individual speaker at the tournament, while Horton was right behind as the second place speaker.
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Biological Sciences Hosts Alumni Reception
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.
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Psychology Student Finds Less Automation Better
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.
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Pterosaur: A Maritime Master
Texas Tech paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee discovers that ancient flying dinosaur also sailed the seas.
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Tech Receives Nearly $1 Million Grant From NSF
The $978,000 grant will be used to administer the growing number of STEM educational outreach programs at the university.
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College News Archives
Read previous news items about the College of Arts and Sciences.
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