Scholar Profiles

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  William Westney

  Horn Professor and Browning Artist-in-Residence
  College of Visual and Performing Arts
  William Westney joins an international, cross-disciplinary collaboration in a deeper look at gesture.

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  Kitty Harris

  George C. Miller Family Regents Professor and Associate Dean for Outreach and Engagement, College of Human Sciences;
  Director, Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery
  Poised and professional in her office adorned with awards, Kitty Harris, director of the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery, clearly knows a thing or two about setting goals and finding success.

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  Siva Vanapalli

  Assistant Professor, College of Engineering
  Siva Vanapalli and researchers from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center are testing a hypothesis that could help with early diagnosis of cancer by engineering microfluidic devices for cellular analysis.

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  Tanya Brown

  Faculty Associate, Wind Science and Engineering Research Center
  Just like Dorothy, twisters in Kansas and Oklahoma carry alumna Tanya Brown down the path to her future.

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  Kent Wilkinson

  Director, Institute for Hispanic and International Communication;
  Regents Professor, College of Mass Communications
  Faculty member Kent Wilkinson recognizes a need for effective communications across ethnicities and melds that into his research at Texas Tech’s Institute for Hispanic and International Communication.

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  Heather Darnell

  Undergraduate Student;
  College of Visual & Performing Arts, College of Arts & Sciences
  Heather Darnell explores the world of undergraduate research at Texas Tech through music of the Mediterranean.

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  Anthony Giordano

  Doctoral Student;
  College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources
  Doctoral student Anthony Giordano will spend one year in Paraguay on a Fulbright scholarship, studying the jaguar population.

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  Rebecca Tokach

  Graduate Student;
  College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources
  Meet the next great meat scientist. Texas Tech graduate student Rebecca Tokach has a passion for improving the global meat industry.