COLLEGE RECEIVES $2M IN ENDOWMENTS FROM THE HELEN JONES FOUNDATION

The College is very pleased to announce endowment gifts totaling $2 million from the Helen Jones Foundation to support undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships. Half of the funds will provide scholarships to recruit top undergraduate students to Texas Tech University. About one-third of the students at Texas Tech are in the College of Arts and Sciences. With challenging economic conditions and higher cost of tuition, there is a critical need for the college to offer scholarships to attract top students to attend Texas Tech. The Helen DeVitt Jones Undergraduate Scholarships will be the most prestigious awards granted by Arts and Sciences.

Attracting graduate students from prominent U.S. universities is an important measure of TTU’s academic reputation. The Helen DeVitt Jones Graduate Fellowships will play a dramatic role in recruiting talented students from out of state. As they team with award-winning, nationally recognized faculty, graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences are making an impact at the state, national, and global level in diverse fields ranging from technical communication, environmental studies, science, and public administration. The College also needs to maintain a steady influx of highly-knowledgeable and talented graduate teaching assistants who will contribute to the nearly 200,000 credit hours taught in the College of Arts and Sciences each semester. Additionally, 75 percent of the $1 million in fellowships will be eligible for matching funds from the Texas Research Incentive Program.

We are very grateful for the continuing support of the College and the University represented by these generous gifts

ARTS AND SCIENCES UNDERGRADUATES RECEIVE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS

The College of Arts and Sciences held its annual scholarship reception April 27, 2012.  It was a great event, attended by scholarship recipients and friends and family.  For the coming Fall 2012/Spring 2013 academic year, the College of Arts and Sciences has awarded a total of $151,700 in scholarships.  This award amount represents an increase of more than 16 percent in scholarship awards over last year. Dean Lawrence Schovanec is pictured with a number of the recipients.

PROFESSOR HOUK TAKES STUDENTS TO BELIZE

Associate professor Brett A. Houk led an archaeological field school this summer to the ancient Maya site of Chan Chich, a medium-sized ruin nestled in the jungle of northwestern Belize.
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FRENCH IMMERSION

Associate Professor Carole Edwards (Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures) sent in these student comments from somewhere in Reims, France, June, 2012: “This summer 28 TTU students took the least traveled study abroad road to Reims, France.  They took a leap of faith to contextualize all that which they had learned on campus.  Immersion is probably the most active learning experience one will ever take, albeit intimidating.  In their own words they chose to describe different aspects of the French culture.”
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PHI BETA KAPPA INDUCTS ITS NEWEST STUDENT MEMBERS

On Thursday, April 26, 2012, our Lambda of Texas chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most prestigious of the national academic honorary societies, inducted its newest set of student members.
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HESS PROFESSOR GIVES LECTURES IN SPAIN

PROFESSOR INDUCTED INTO ROYAL ACADEMY OF HISTORY

Professor Jacalyn J. McComb (standing, Health, Exercise, and Sport Sciences) consults with Dr. Ascensión Blanco Fernández from the European University of Madrid on biofeedback research.

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Horn Professor Allan J. Kuethe, who specializes in Latin American studies and 18th Century Spanish history, will be the 16th American inducted into Spain’s Royal Academy of History since 1956.
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PROFESSOR TANG HEADS NEW INSTITUTE

ANTHROPOLOGY CONNECTION IN SCOTLAND

Dr. Yi-Yuan Tang, the scientist who founded Integrative Body-Mind Training, now stands at the helm of Texas Tech’s new, cutting-edge Neuroimaging Institute.
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This past spring, Professor Robert R. Paine from the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, held a forensic anthropology workshop at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY RECEIVE AWARDS

Pictured: left to right

• Dimitri Pappas
  Chemistry
• Sean Cunningham
  History
• Lee Cohen
  Psychology
• Patricia DeLucia
  Psychology
• Lars Christensen
  Mathematics

The recent Faculty Honors Convocation saw a dozen Arts and Sciences faculty receive university-wide awards for teaching and research excellence. Several of the happy honorees gathered for an informal photo on the steps of Holden Hall.
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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES CO-SPONSORS NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIST LECTURE SERIES

The Native American Artist Lecture Series featured three award winning artists whose presentations explored the specific ways in which their Native American heritage and identity influence their art. Pictured is Ms. Jeraldine Redcorn, the final presenter this past May.

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Book Award Error Correction: Connections regrets confusion between two faculty names in the Spring 2011 issue. In fact, Dr. Jeffrey Lee of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics won first place in the President’s Book Award competition. The title of his award winning graduate textbook is “Manifolds and Differential Geometry,” published by the American Mathematics Society. The correction has been made in that issue on the College web site. Congratulations, Dr. Lee.