Taylor Eighmy

Senior Vice President for Research

Taylor Eighmy, Ph.D., joined the Texas Tech University Office of Research in June 2009. As senior vice president of research, Eighmy works closely with the faculty, department chairs, deans, the President’s Cabinet and the chancellor’s office to broaden and strengthen the research enterprise at the university. Specific efforts are directed at enhancing scholarship opportunities for faculty and entering into strategic relationships with the Federal government, the private sector and foundations to foster investment in faculty, graduate and undergraduate research, and interdisciplinary research programs.

Eighmy presently serves on the Fully Chartered Committee and the Environmental Engineering Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board. Prior to June 2009, Eighmy was interim vice president for research at the University of New Hampshire and research professor of civil engineering (2007-2009), and assistant vice president for research and director of strategic initiatives (2006-2009). He chaired the UNH Energy Task Force and helped manage the state’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII) initiative. Eighmy was the founding director of UNH’s Environmental Research Group, an applied environmental engineering and environmental science research center from 1987 through 2004. He also was the director of UNH’s Recycled Materials Resource Center from 1998 to 2004, which is a partnership with the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) that promotes the wise use of recycled materials in highway construction.

Eighmy is an inventor of a patented reactive barrier technology for contaminated sediments. His research interests are in beneficial use of waste materials, life cycle analysis of waste products, chemical speciation, spectroscopic surface analysis, reactive barriers, environmental chemistry of leaching behavior and environmental microbiology. His most recent research was supported by the FHWA, NSF, EPA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the European Union and the private sector. Eighmy received his Bachelor of Science in biology from Tufts University in 1980, his Master of Science in civil engineering from the University of New Hampshire in 1983, and his doctorate in civil engineering from UNH in 1986.

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Contact Taylor Eighmy at (806) 742-3905 or taylor.eighmy@ttu.edu
Photograph by Artie Limmer