Featured Alumnus

OUT OF AFRICA

Tibor Nagy
From West Texas to Africa and back again

Few graduates of the College of Arts and Sciences have followed a more geographically circuitous path than Ambassador Tibor P. Nagy, Jr., current Vice Provost for International Affairs at Texas Tech University.

A native of Hungary, in 1956 Nagy and his father, a military officer who fought in the short-lived Hungarian Revolution, were forced to flee their country when the Soviet Politburo moved in its tanks and crushed the revolution. After spending a year in Vienna under the auspices of the American Embassy, father and son eventually settled in Washington, DC. After High School graduation, Nagy wanted to attend college somewhere in the American West. In 1966 he came to Texas Tech where he joined Sigma Nu fraternity, participated in intramural soccer and swimming, grew to love West Texas, and last, but certainly not least, met and fell in love with his future wife, Jane Whitfill, a native Texan. Although he began his academic career as Architecture major, Nagy soon switched to the College of Arts and Sciences and graduated in 1971 with a double major in Political Science and History.
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Student Spotlights

Chloe Beddingfield

Tech senior teams with faculty researcher to investigate whether there is evidence for water elsewhere in the universe.

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Jeremy Torrez

Graduate student builds on his own experience to help visually impaired individuals during employment interviews.
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Summer Internships

Arts and Sciences students accepted into highly competitive summer internships in the medical research field.
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Faculty Features

Linda Allen
Paul Whitfield Horn Professor,
Mathematics and Statistics

Linda Allen was recently named Horn Professor, the highest honor the University can bestow. Allen received her PhD from the University of Tennessee in 1981, and joined the Texas Tech faculty in 1985.
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Kevin Mulligan
Associate Professor,
Geosciences

Kevin Mulligan, director of the Center for Geospatial Technology, and Lucia Barbato, associate director of the Center, have received $1 million through the Texas National Guard and Stephen F. Austin State University
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Jacob Beck
Assistant Professor,
Philosophy

In both his teaching and research, Jacob Beck aims to bring empirical work in the cognitive sciences into contact with long-standing philosophical questions about the mind.  
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Some New Faculty

Karlos Hill
Assistant Professor,
History

Karlos Hill joined the Department of History in Fall 2009.� His area of expertise is the history of lynching and anti-lynching activism in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America. 
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Martina Klein
Assistant Professor,
Psychology

Martina Klein received her doctorate in Experimental/Human Factors Psychology from the University of Cincinnati after majoring in psychology and minoring in mathematics at Hawaii Pacific University.
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Chris Witmore
Assistant Professor,
Classical & Modern Languages and Literatures

Christopher Witmore is an archeologist who works with the material remains of past societies, particularly those of ancient Greece.
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Michele Navakas
Assistant Professor,
English

Michele Navakas says that she is �thrilled to join Texas Tech�s faculty as Assistant Professor in the Department of English,� where she teaches, researches, and writes about early American literature and culture.
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