Below is a list of Academic Service Centers, organized by College. To view details of a specific service center, including contact information and fund code, click on the center's name.

COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES

CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
(Biotechnology Core Facility)
Contact: shannon.sears@ttu.eduFund: 17A067Financial Manager: Mechref, Yehia S.
Details: Biotechnology and GenomicsRates: View Rates
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
(Chemistry Glassblowing Serv Center)
Contact: linda.rodriguez@ttu.edu & j.bertonazzi@ttu.eduFund: 17A118Financial Manager: Pappas, Dimitrios
Details: Scientific glassblowing.Rates: Actual cost of materials + $10 for labor if needed.
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
(Chemistry NMR Service Center)
Contact: linda.rodriguez@ttu.eduFund: 17A064Financial Manager: Pappas, Dimitrios
Details: Resonance (NMR) AnalysisRates: $20 per sample with a cap of $250.
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
(Chemistry Xray Cryst Serv Center)
Contact: linda.rodriguez@ttu.eduFund: 17A074Financial Manager: Pappas, Dimitrios
Details: Xray crystallography testing and analysis. The X-ray facility provides clients with a detailed structural analysis of their experimental materials. This can be accomplished by either single crystal or powder X-ray diffraction techniques. At this point we have 3 instruments (1 single crystal and 2 powder), machine shop, pump shop and fabrication shop services.Rates:
  • PXRD Data $7.52
  • PXRD Sample $4.85
  • SCXRD Unit Cell $10.49
  • SCXRD Refinement $40.08
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
(Department of Chemistry Store)
Contact: quentin.vaugh@ttu.eduFund: 17A066Financial Manager: Pappas, Dimitrios
Details: We provide laboratory supplies for research and teaching.Rates: 3% markup.
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
(Gen Instrumentation Chem and Biochem)
Contact: linda.rodriguez@ttu.edu & kaz.surowiec@ttu.eduFund: 17A130Financial Manager: Pappas, Dimitrios
Details: To support the basic maintenance and recovery costs associated with the daily consumption of all analysis and instrumentation equipment in Chemistry.Rates: View Rates
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
(Biostratigraphy Lab)
Contact: matt.saldana@ttu.eduFund: 17A232Financial Manager: McAdams, Neo E.
Details: Conodont biostratigraphy.Rates: Internal rate $122.73, External rate $150.
GEOSCIENCES
(Aqueous Geochemistry Laboratory)
Contact: matt.saldana@ttu.eduFund: 17A075Financial Manager: Ridley, Moira K.
Details: Fully equipped for low-temperature experimental studies. The laboratory contains a range of commercial instrumentation and custom designed equipment. Principal experimental studies utilize the BET surface area analyzer; custom designed solubility rig; autotitrators equipped with multiple burettes and pumps; high revolution centrifuge; and high frequency ultrasonicating-probe. In addition, the laboratory is equipped with: a fume hood; ultra-pure deionizing water system; multiple Ross pH / conductivity meters and electrodes; analytical balances; water baths; drying oven; magnetic stirrers / hot plates; Eppendorf pipettes; ultrasonic bath; multimeter; vacuum pumps; and data logging systems.SRates: $79.18
GEOSCIENCES
(CASM Cell Cytometry Core)
Contact: callum.hethertington@ttu.eduFund: 17A203Financial Manager: Hetherington, Callum
Details: BD FACS ARIA, cell sorting, cell analysis.Rates: View Rates
GEOSCIENCES
(Clay Laboratory Geosciences)
Contact: branimir.segvic@ttu.eduFund: 17A210Financial Manager: Segvic, Branimir
Details: Fund will allow for analysis related to research both internal and external of Texas Tech University to be carried out by Dr. Segvic laboratory.Rates: Not available.
GEOSCIENCES
(Electron Microscopy)
Contact: callum.hethertington@ttu.eduFund: 17A179Financial Manager: Hetherington, Callum
Details: The facility is open to all faculty, graduate students and area businesses interested in enhancing their research using the techniques of transmission electron and scanning electron microscopy.Rates: View Rates
GEOSCIENCES
(Geos Vehicle Service Center)
Contact: matt.saldana@ttu.eduFund: 17A231Financial Manager: Saldana, Matthew
Details: Provide appropriate vehicles for use by faculty and staff for field trips in difficult terrains as well as providing vehicles that have the appropriate passenger capacity for field based trips throughout the year.Rates: $0.725 per mile
GEOSCIENCES
(Stable Isotope Laboratory Services)
Contact: juske.horita@ttu.eduFund: 17A072Financial Manager: Horita, Juske
Details: Equipped with a Delta V mass spectrometer with peripherals (GasBench, EA, TC-EA, Trace GC and GC IsoLink) for isotopic analysis of water, biomass, hydrocarbons, minerals and other materials. Conventional glass vacuum systems and other facilities (oven, balance, etc.) are also available for various sample preparations for isotope analysis. We also have large laboratory space, including two chemical fume hoods, for conducting various organic chemical reactions in safe environment.Rates: $20-$228
GEOSCIENCES
(Zeiss Crossbeam)
Contact: callum.hethertington@ttu.eduFund: 17A204Financial Manager: Hetherington, Callum
Details: Electron microscopy, automated mapping & data processing, focused ion beam microscopy and milling.Rates:
  • Automated Mapping & Data Processing: $25.00
  • Focused Ion Beam Microscopy and Milling: $145.00
  • CASM Cost Structure
GEOSCIENCES / NATIONAL WIND INSTITUTE
(Mobile Observatory Vehicle Use)
Contact: eric.bruning@ttu.eduFund: 17A194Financial Manager: Bruning, Eric C.
Details: TTU's Ballooning and Observation Laboratory for Thunderstorms (BOLT) is a mobile platform designed for flexible use in field operations coordination, radiosonde launches, and instrument maintenance.Rates: $0.725 per mile
GEOSCIENCES / NATIONAL WIND INSTITUTE
(Radar Equipment Usage)
Contact: john.schroeder@ttu.eduFund: 17A073Financial Manager: Schroeder, John L.
Details: Services are two-fold: Internal TTU usage of the radars in exchange for use fees. In these cases, the salaries, fuel, etc. that are required for radar operation are funded through sponsored research projects. This represents the typical project, where only use fees are collected for the service center account. Pilot projects (without a funding source) also occur. For these occasions, we have not collected use fees, but they are limited in application. Although this has not happened in the past, we also envision external entities contracting for use of the radars (outside a sponsored research project) to occur in the future. In these cases, these entities should have to pay not only the use fees, but also for the costs associated with the TTU personnel who operate the radars, fuel, etc. DOE Xband RadarRates: View Rates
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
(Electronic and Mechanical Services)
Contact: kim.zinsmeyer@ttu.eduFund: 17A076Financial Manager: Zinsmeyer, Francis K.
Details: Our mission is to support the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Undergraduate Education, Graduate Research and Faculty Research, in that order. As time allows, our services are available to any Texas Tech entity for an hourly charge. These services include machine work, mechanical design/ modification, fabrication and welding (arc and inert gas). Electronic repair, design, fabrication and modification services are also available.Rates: Actual cost of materials.
THE INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL & HUMAN HEALTH
(Phil Smith Component Analysis)
Contact: tami.james@ttu.eduFund: 17A207Financial Manager: Smith, Phil
Details: Bovine serum sample processing/analysis for detection of specific makeup.Rates: Invoicing customers based on direct charges for customized testing. Each service is unique and time/materials will be included on invoices to customers.
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS
(Interdisciplinary Research Greenhouse)
Contact: josie.solis@ttu.eduFund: 17A250Financial Manager: Solis, Josefina
Details: Rate development for services that will be offered once BASF Greenhouse transitions to TTU.Rates: $3.78 per sq. ft. per month.
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
(iLSF)
Contact: caitlin.freeman@ttu.eduFund: 17A258Financial Manager: Solis, Josefina
Details: BSL-2 histology lab, a 5-bay BSL-3 lab, a Clean Room designed for nanotechnology research, and clinical diagnosis Human Sampling lab.Rates: Not Available.
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
(ASB BSL3 Facility)
Contact: caitlyn.freeman@ttu.eduFund: 17A265Financial Manager: Solis, Josefina
Details: Service center for BSL3 facility equipment and services. Preliminary rates were approved as part of the iSLF service center and BSL3 is being separated from those services.Rates:
  • BSL3 BDFACs Melody $70
  • BSL3 Image Xpress Confocal HT $30
  • BSL3 Attune Flow Cytometer $15
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
(Eo Group Measurement Lab)
Contact: yeo@ttu.eduFund: 17A273Financial Manager: Eo, Yun Suk
Details: Equipment use for measurement of magnetic propertiesRates: Base fee of $34 per hour with additional $44.62 hourly labor rate if user assistance is required.

DAVIS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES & NATURAL RESOURCES

ANIMAL AND FOOD SCIENCE
(Animal Care and Resources Ctr Serv)
Contact: tiffanie.brooks@ttu.edu & justine.latham@ttu.eduFund: 17A125Financial Manager: Brooks, Tiffanie A.
Details: ACS serves to facilitate the use of animals in research and teaching at Texas Tech University while assuring compliance with all applicable regulations. ACS maintains responsibilities in animal procurement, animal housing and daily care, the provision of veterinary care, health surveillance and preventative care, assisting investigators and their staff with animal procedures, and the care, maintenance and replacement of equipment and facilities.Rates:
  • Technical Activities: $55.00
  • MUS-IVC (BSL1): $0.60
  • MUS-QUA (Mice): $1.49
ANIMAL AND FOOD SCIENCE
(Animal Science Vehicle Use)
Contact: wendy.woerner@ttu.eduFund: 17A050Financial Manager: Brooks, J.C.
Details: Account is used to maintain all animal and food sciences vehicles. To provide transportation to perform research, pick up samples, field trips, judging, classes.Rates: $0.725 per mile
ANIMAL AND FOOD SCIENCE
(Burnett Center Research Trials)
Contact: kristin.hales@ttu.eduFund: 17A047Financial Manager: Hales-Paxton, Kristin
Details: Major research areas have included: 1) factors affecting animal growth and carcass composition; 2) evaluation of nutrient requirements of beef cattle; and 3) grain and roughage processing. Future efforts will include continued studies in these three major areas, with additional emphasis placed on feeding management systems to improve efficiency and sustainability (economic and environmental) of cattle production and nutrition/health interactions in lightweight, stressed beef cattle. Burnett CenterRates: Labor charged at current average of technicians at center. Currently $40.00/hr.
ANIMAL AND FOOD SCIENCE
(Feedstuff Nutrition)
Contact: j.sarturi@ttu.eduFund: 17A178Financial Manager: Sarturi, Jhones O.
Details: Provide feedstuff nutrition laboratorial analysis to private companies when service is required outside of research projects. As well as faculty members willing to use equipment in the ruminant nutrition lab.Rates: The current rate is specific to each customer. The department will need to keep documentation on why they are charging what they are charging each customer. The department will also need to make sure their invoices are specific and detailed.
ANIMAL AND FOOD SCIENCE
(Livestock Feed Account)
Contact: jamie.looney@ttu.eduFund: 17A052Financial Manager: Brooks, J.C.
Details: Ingredients provided to create custom feed mixes.Rates: 5% mark-up on feed mix ingredients.
ANIMAL AND FOOD SCIENCE
(Van Fund for Animal Science Judging)
Contact: wendy.woerner@ttu.eduFund: 17A040Financial Manager: Brooks, J C.
Details: Travel between TTU and TTU New Deal farm (research animals) as well as field trips and judging trips.Rates: $0.725 per mile
ANIMAL AND FOOD SCIENCE
(Plains Grain Corn)
Contact: ericca.soto@ttu.eduFund: 17A042Financial Manager: Xu, Wenwei
Details: Corn grains from corn breeding research plots at Texas Tech Research Farm and Texas A&M AgriLife Research Farm.Rates: $7.00 per 100 lbs
NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
(Carbon and Nitrogen Analysis)
Contact: lindsey.slaughter@ttu.eduFund: 17A154Financial Manager: Slaughter, Lindsey C.
Details: Measuring total combustible carbon and nitrogen in plant or soil samples: C&N on plan or soil samples preprocessed and weighed by submitter $6/sample; C&N on plant or soil samples processed and weighed by lab $8-12/sample. Please email to maks sure you have the correct procedure. Lab will supply the materials to weigh the sample into as well as any chemical treatments needed (i.e. acidification for carbonates for soil prior to analysis. 10-03-2023 No estimated date for machine to get back in working order, operations on hold for the forseeable future.Rates: $5.00 internal customers, $6.00 external customers
NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
(NMR Vehicle)
Contact: richard.stevens@ttu.eduFund: 17A008Financial Manager: Stevens, Richard D.
Details: Leasing department vehicles to other departments.Rates: $0.725 per mile
NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
(Norris Analysis Center)
Contact: aaron.norris@ttu.eduFund: 17A249Financial Manager: Norris, Aaron B.
Details: Performing nutritional analyses, secondary compound determination, greenhouse gas measurement, and supplement and water intake monitoring.Rates: View Rates
NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
(LEAF Lab Aerial Solutions)
Contact: nathan.gill@ttu.eduFund: 17A252Financial Manager: Gill, Nathan S.
Details: Capturing footage with drones to support various campus departments.Rates:
  • Internal Student Pilot: $20.00 per hour.
  • Maintenance: $5.00 per hour
  • Insurance: Variable based on location; rates will be calculated at the time of request
  • External based on market rate charge.
NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
(Norris Vehicle)
Contact: aaron.norris@ttu.eduFund: 17A256Financial Manager: Norris, Aaron B.
Details: Vehicle use.Rates: $0.725 per mile.
PLANT AND SOIL SCIENCE
(Greenhouse Services)
Contact: vikram.baliga@ttu.eduFund: 17A041Financial Manager: Ritchie, Glen
Details: The University Greenhouse provides teaching and research space and services to faculty in the Department of Plant and Soil Science. Occasionally, researchers from outside the department rent space as well. Services include:
  • Greenhouse bench space for researchers,
  • Pots, growing media, fertilizer, and other materials necessary for plant research,
  • Irrigation services and equipment,
  • Teaching space and materials for labs and classes within the Plant and Soil Science Department.
Rates: $30.00 per bench per month, $11.00 per hour for watering
PLANT AND SOIL SCIENCE
(ICP OEP Analysis)
Contact: matthew.siebecker@ttu.eduFund: 17A213Financial Manager: Siebecker, Matthew
Details: Students and researchers will be allowed to run samples on the Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES) for a fee of $5.00 per sample. All students and researchers will be trained to run the equipment.Rates: $5 per sample
PLANT AND SOIL SCIENCE
(IGCAST Phytotron)
Contact: mylea.lovell@ttu.eduFund: 17A222Financial Manager: Herrera Estrella, Luis
Details: Provide research space, irrigation of research plants, provide materials for research plants, Filling and tabling pots, Adding fertilizer, Disposal of plant material, Disposal of potting media, Table and work area clean up, Washing and disinfecting pots, Soil sterilization, Custom media preparation IGCAST PhytotronRates: View Rates
VETERINARY SCIENCE
(Veterinary Science Vehicle Account)
Contact: melissa.a.wade@ttu.eduFund: 17A233Financial Manager: Ballou, Michael A.
Details: The fund will be used for mileage, vehicle maintenance, auto insurance and replacement of vehicle at the end of its useful life.Rates: $0.725 per mile
VETERINARY SCIENCE
(Lab Equipment Usage)
Contact: michael.ballou@ttu.eduFund: 17A255Financial Manager: Beimer-Wade, Melissa
Details: To collect fees associated with the usage of laboratory equipment being used.Rates:
  • Quanti Studio 6 Pro $25 per plate
  • Cytation 5 1 Hour=$54 1/2 Hour=$27 1/4 Hour=$13.50 1/4 hour minimum charge
  • iBright FL 1500 1 Hour=$54 1/2 Hour=$27 1/4 Hour=$13.50 1/4 hour minimum charge
  • WOLF2 $350 per cartridge for 8 hours
  • Biospa - Incubator $30 per drawer per day

NUTRITIONAL AND METABOLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE

NMHI
(Nutrition Intervention Development)
Contact: jenna.seale@ttu.eduFund: 17A274Financial Manager: Seale, Jenna
Details: Nutrition assessments, dietary analysis, and development of standardized yet individualized interventions.Rates: $60 per hour
NMHI
(Dual Energy Xray Absorptiometry)
Contact: jenna.seale@ttu.eduFund: 17A275Financial Manager: Seale, Jenna
Details: Low dose X-ray used to measure bone mineral density, fat mass, and lean tissue with high precision.Rates: Scan rate of $300 per hour and additional labor at $60 per hour, can be billed in 15 min increments.

SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE

VETERINARY MEDICINE
(SVM MALDI TOF Mass Spectrometer)
Contact: kristina.pennell@ttu.eduFund: 17A230Financial Manager: Nguyen, Thu
Details: MALDI TOF - MS using Shimadzu Axima Performance. The Axima Performance MALDI TOF mass spectrometer is located in room W210 of the School of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo, TX. The device is used for mass spectrometric analysis of large biomolecules such as peptides & proteins. This system is also equipped with Seramis software for rapid identification of bacteria, molds, and yeasts.Rates: Internal $20-$50 per hour, External $60 per hour
VETERINARY MEDICINE
(SVM Poster Printing Service)
Contact: sherri.powledge@ttu.eduFund: 17A235Financial Manager: Nguyen, Thu
Details: The poster printing service operating under the Office of Associate Dean for Research provides custom prints on premium high quality paper along with trim and cut to variable sizes. Binding options are also available.Rates: $10 18" x 24" poster, $20 24" x 36" poster, $40 36" x 48" poster.
VETERINARY MEDICINE
(Vet School Stockroom)
Contact: kristina.pennell@ttu.eduFund: 17A229Financial Manager: Dascanio, John
Details: Providing supplies and materials for Vet School labs and classroom operations.Rates: 3% markup
VETERINARY MEDICINE
(Research Vehicle Usage Center)
Contact: nicole.pruitt@ttu.eduFund: 17A251Financial Manager: Nguyen, Thu A.
Details: Allow researchers to have access to the research truck and to capture the mileage fee in revenue and support the research fund.Rates: $0.725 per mile
VETERINARY MEDICINE
(Academic Services Vehicle Usage)
Contact: nicole.pruitt@ttu.eduFund: 17A260Financial Manager: Arnold, Carolyn E.
Details: Allow faculty/staff to have access to the Academic Services vehicle and to capture the mileage fee in revenue and support Academic Services.Rates: $0.725 per mile
VETERINARY MEDICINE
(OCP Vehicle Usage Center)
Contact: eden.taylor@ttu.eduFund: 17A261Financial Manager: Conklin, Britton L.
Details: Office of Clinical Programs faculty and staff to have access to vehicles and to capture the mileage fee and support Office of Clinical Programs.Rates: $0.725 per mile
VETERINARY MEDICINE
(SVM Vehicle Usage Center)
Contact: nicole.pruitt@ttu.eduFund: 17A262Financial Manager: Loneragan, Guy
Details: Faculty/staff to have access to the SVM vehicles when traveling to benefit the school and to capture the mileage fee in revenue and support the SVM fund.Rates: $0.725 per mile
VETERINARY MEDICINE
(Histology)
Contact: nicole.pruitt@ttu.eduFund: 17A263Financial Manager: Nguyen, Thu A.
Details: Providing slides of tissue samples as teaching tools for our DVM students and for researchers to benefit the SVM.Rates: Processing $6.05 Embedding $0.38 Slide protection $4.24 Unstain only $0.25 DECAL $0.19 DEPAR $7.09 $11.45 Coverslipping $3.25 Special Stains $0.29

WHITACRE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(Materials Characterization Facility)
Contact: juliusz@warzywoda@ttu.eduFund: 17A034Financial Manager: Faller, Roland
Details: Designed to support a complete range of materials studies, including synthesis, analytical characterization, and applications testing. MCCRates:
  • $20 - $200 per hour depending on the test
  • X-ray Diffractometer (MiniFlex 6G) Rigaku MiniFlex 6G X-ray diffractometer: $115.00
  • X-ray Diffractometer (SmartLab 3kW XE) Rigaku SmartLab 3kW XE X-ray diffractometer: $125.00
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(Water Resources Center Vehicle)
Contact: suzette.mason@ttu.eduFund: 17A212Financial Manager: Walker, William S.
Details: Not Available.Rates: $0.725 per mile
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(CECE Vehicle Service Center)
Contact: shannon.hutchison@ttu.eduFund: 17A236Financial Manager: Jackson, William A.
Details: To provide appropriate funds for vehicle maintenance and upkeep as well as fuel based on field usage.Rates: $0.725 per mile.
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(Analytical Service Center)
Contact: suzette.mason@ttu.eduFund: 17A253Financial Manager: Reible, Danny D.
Details: Laboratory service center for external and internal sampling analysis. Recouping available depreciation costs of WATER Center equipment along with any consumable supplies required for use and possible labor.Rates: Not Available.

OTHER

CURRICULM & INSTRUCTION
(Center for Innovation in E-Learning)
Contact: jongpil.cheon@ttu.eduFund: 17A239Financial Manager: Perez, Becky
Details: The center provides instructional design and development service, such as online course development, multimedia materials, and web-based instructional systems.Rates: $100 per hour
NEUROIMAGING INSTITUTE
(Neuroimaging Inst Svc Center)
Contact: eric.walden@ttu.edu & kasey.rieken@ttu.eduFund: 17A170Financial Manager: Walden, Eric A.
Details: Structural and functional MRI scans.Rates: $600 per labor hour
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
(Copy Services Fund School of Music)
Contact: maria.mendoza@ttu.eduFund: 17A085Financial Manager: Stetson, Andrew J.
Details: Necessary use of photocopying in the School of Music.Rates: $0.035 per paper
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
(Global Laboratory for Energy Asset Management and Manufacturing (GLEAMM) Microgrid Research Center)
Contact: argenis.bilbao@ttu.eduFund: 17A214Financial Manager: Bilbao, Argenis
Details: Full use of all facilities & personnel services (as needed) for testing and/or evaluation of microgrid energy generation, management, storage, ect. Please see GLEAMM Microgrid Research website for full services.Rates: Facility: $15.18 per hour or $10,930.73 per month, Personnel Support: $1.08 per hour or $774.97 per month
TTU ONLINE
(TTU Online - Video Studio)
Contact: marissa.arguello@ttu.eduFund: 17A242Financial Manager: Still, James
Details: The Texas Tech Online video studio serves the audio and video production needs of faculty and staff members at Texas Tech University (TTU). Our services include audio editing, video editing, script development, series development, green screen video, digital whiteboard video, document camera recording, video production on-location, motion graphics animation, access to stock footage and copyright-free music, easy access to the other faculty services teams including instructional design, accessibility, and Blackboard support.Rates: Production: $30 per hour, Video Editing: $25 per hour
HOSPITALITY AND RETAIL MANAGEMENT
(HRM Culinary Lab Rental)
Contact: jessi.holeman@ttu.eduFund: 17A257Financial Manager: Jones, Robert P.
Details: To take in payments from other TTU departments outside HRM fro culinary lab rental when a proctor is needed.Rates: $20 per hour. Rate is solely determined on the proctor's salary per hour.

TTU SYSTEM

3 RIVERS RANCH
Contact: cady.alvarado@ttu.eduFund: 17A004Financial Manager: Alvarado, Cady
Details: Rental rates for various facilities and services available at the 3 Rivers Ranch site.Rates:
  • Tent camping: $10 per night
  • RV Space top: $20 per night
  • RV Space bottom: $30 per night