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AFS graduate students receive 3-A SSI Student Travel Scholarship Awards

April 08, 2014

AFS graduate students receive 3-A SSI Student Travel Scholarship Awards

Three graduate students from Texas Tech's Department of Animal and Food Sciences have been awarded travel scholarships from 3-A Sanitary Standards, a non-profit organization that focuses on enhancing product safety for consumers of food, beverages and pharmaceutical products.

Cold Takes Toll; Supplemental feeding influences survival of West Texas quail

March 24, 2014

Cold Takes Toll; Supplemental feeding influences survival of West Texas quail

This winter's bitter cold has been hard on everybody, but it's been particularly tough on quail, those small birds that survive the cold by feeding on tiny seeds. That was particularly true out of Texas Rolling Plains during a large January weather event that dumped more than a foot of snow that hung on for days.

Texas Tech researchers, students help overhaul New Zealand beef market

March 17, 2014

Texas Tech researchers, students help overhaul New Zealand beef market

The success of Texas Tech University's research in meat science and quality is no secret to West Texas or even the state. Now the value of that research is being tasted around the world. Specifically, New Zealand's beef industry recently has been overhauled by research completed through Tech's Department of Animal and Food Sciences.