If you're interested in a faculty-led alumni agricultural environmental tour of Romania and Hungary, the deadlines for signing up are quickly approaching, said officials with Texas Tech's College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources today. A $500 per person deposit is required to hold a place on tour. Fifty percent of the balance is due by March 11, and the final payment is due by May 4.
As the economy becomes more global each day, Texas Tech University students striving for a career in the agribusiness field are now being given the opportunity to learn on an international scale. Specifically, Tech's Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics is making that possible with a newly launched international agriculture business program.
The leaders in Texas Tech's Office of International Affairs are seeing growth of a program that brings scholars from developing countries to Texas Tech to complete a doctorate degree and help solve food security and availability issues in their native lands.
Three students from Texas Tech's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources are spending the spring working as interns in the nation's capital. Running from January through May, the college's congressional spring internship program offers selected students an opportunity to experience first-hand the government's day-to-day operations.