Texas Tech's outstanding Meat Science Academic Quiz Bowl Team brought home a national championship title last month from the 69th Reciprocal Meat Conference in San Angelo. Previously, Tech won the competition in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013 and 2014. Tech defeated Colorado State in the final round of competition for the win.
Texas Tech University's Graduate School recently recognized work displayed in students' theses and dissertations for the annual 2016 awards, funded in part by the Helen Jones Foundation.
Twenty-three high school instructors from across the nation were on Texas Tech's campus for a special agricultural science education course this week, said officials of Tech's Department of Agricultural Education and Communications, who hosted the 11-day academic event. The focus of the Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education program was providing a high-level educational experience to enhance the rigor and relevance of agriculture, food, and natural resources subject matter.