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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 Bacheloršs degrees, 36 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 8,333 undergraduate and 1,285 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 collegešs students and faculty.
Debate Team Secures Historic Finishes at National Event
Team finished third in tournament sweepstakes and fifth in season sweepstakes, which are both program bests.
Math Professor Inducted as Association Fellow
Clyde Martin also was recently named an American Statistical Association Fellow, as well as a Jefferson Science fellow and will work next year at the U.S. Department of State.
Professor Inducted into Royal Academy of History
Allan J. Kuethe will be the 16th American inducted into the academy since 1956.
Biology Students Gain Impressive Win at Competition
The pair took first and second place at the annual American Society for Microbiology meeting.
Latest Victory Gives Debaters Top National Ranking
Joey Donaghy and Adam Testerman also won a spot in the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence.
Ask the Experts: Lee Cohen
The Department Chair of Psychology answers your questions about New Year's resolutions.
Texas Tech to Help Lead New Climate Science Center
School will have leadership role in a consortium of universities, tribal nations and regional partners.
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