A graduate student and staff member with Texas Tech's Department of Natural Resources Management has been recognized for academic excellence and involvement in fire-related research and service by the Association for Fire Ecology.
Traveling through the Chinese countryside in summertime is like being transported back to a different time and place. Outdated machinery dots the never-ending farmland, reminiscent of the United States more than half a century prior. Although some farmland has the flat, arid, West Texas-feel, mere miles away, entire farms are created on flat shelves of land carved out of the hills and mountainsides.