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Built for Success: How the Arts and Sciences Student Ambassador Program Builds Academic Leaders
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Joshua Tropp stands with his arms crossed against a dark background with blurred, warm-toned lights in the image Tiles.png. A glowing, translucent 3D molecular structure with green and purple spheres is superimposed in the foreground.
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Joshua Tropp looks at unlocking the complicated nature of polymer synthesis. CREATORS Portrait of Doug Hensley DOUG HENSLEY Writer
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Nicholas Willis smiles while standing behind a wooden podium to deliver a speech in the image WillisNick.jpg. He is dressed in formal academic regalia, wearing a bright red doctoral gown with black velvet panels, a black academic tam, and a large silver presidential medallion around his neck.
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Nicholas Willis took the lessons learned while obtaining his doctorate in mathematics and has applied them throughout his career in Christian education.
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A group of event participants stand on a stage clapping next to a large display sign that reads "Families in Ranching Succession Toolkit: Building Your Legacy." An audience sits at round tables in the foreground watching the presentation, with one attendee holding up a smartphone to take a picture.
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Anish Quenim coordinated the effort to connect university entities to community members and family ranchers.
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Jennifer Mendoza Trejo smiles in her black graduation cap and gown in the image mendoza-trejo-jennifer-2026-d.jpg. She wears a vibrant serape-style stole embroidered with "Texas Tech University" over a red shirt, holding a black diploma tube and a yellow-wrapped bouquet of flowers against a blurred background of event attendees.
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Jennifer Mendoza Trejo is one of the first to complete the university’s new program in human-centered artificial intelligence.
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An underwater view of a square wire cage exclosure resting on a coral reef. Various small, branching corals grow on the rocky ocean floor both inside and outside the rusted metal grid, illustrating the controlled environments used in Kelly Speare's marine biology research.
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Kelly Speare, an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, will have her findings published in the journal Ecology.
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Caleb Phillips, wearing a white button-down shirt and a navy blue windowpane blazer, stands smiling with his arms crossed. He is positioned in an aisle between tall metal shelving units that are densely packed with glass jars containing wet-preserved biological specimens.
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Rise & Research
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A portrait of John Nelson, an associate professor in the Department of History at Texas Tech, smiling warmly while standing on an outdoor dirt path. He has a short, graying beard and is wearing a tan sport coat over a light plaid button-down shirt. Behind him is a sprawling, grassy landscape under a clear sky, reflecting his connection to the experiential Learning with the Land course he teaches.
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Texas Tech’s John Nelson Brings Subject Matter to Life for Students
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An angled view of the file Tiles.jpg displaying a white gallery wall decorated with multiple black-framed dog portraits. The prominent foreground photograph features a tan dog with an orange collar, captured with its mouth wide open against a dark backdrop. Several other blurred, out-of-focus dog portraits stretch into the background.
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Paola Prada-Tiedemann on dogs, chemistry and national security.
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Assistant Professor Joshua Tropp working in a chemistry laboratory. He is wearing a white lab coat, clear safety goggles, and blue nitrile gloves, looking closely at a small glass vial he is holding. The foreground is filled with out-of-focus laboratory flasks and beakers containing various blue and pink liquids.
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Texas Tech’s Joshua Tropp Will Showcase Infrared Imaging Technology
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A confidence portrait of Janel Susastra, a young woman with a high ponytail and a smile, standing with crossed arms on an elevated gym corridor. She is wearing a red short-sleeved tri-suit with a state outline map of Texas and a "ZODA" logo featuring three birds. A white sports watch is on her left wrist. She is wearing a thin gold necklace and small hoop earrings. The background shows blurred railings and fitness equipment like ellipticals, and other distant gym users. Natural light comes from windows in the background.
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Texas Tech Student to Compete in World University Championship Triathlon
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A close-up view of a compound light microscope with a slide on the mechanical stage illuminated from below. Behind the microscope, out of focus, is a computer monitor showing a bright pink and purple magnified digital image of tissue cells.
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Texas Tech Researchers to Tackle Overlooked Tropical Disease
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An artist's rendering of a large gas giant planet resembling Jupiter, featuring horizontal bands of orange, brown, and tan. The planet is situated on the right, with its right half fading into dark shadow. On the left side of the image, a bright, radiant star illuminates the planet, all set against a deep black background densely populated with tiny, distant stars.
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Texas Tech Researcher Part of Team That Finds Planet in New Way
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A vibrant astronomical explosion set against a pitch-black background sparsely dotted with faint stars. The center features an intensely glowing, horizontal core of textured orange, red, and yellow light, with subtle flashes of blue and purple at the very middle. Radiating symmetrically above and below this central band are two expanding, hazy yellow-orange lobes of glowing gas or energy, resembling wide, slightly translucent shockwaves.
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Physics & Astronomy professor and student take data from deep-space novae and use sound to expand details around their evolution.
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Row of fire service gear hanging on a wall, including several tan turnout coats with reflective stripes and red helmets.
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How Two Texas Tech Researchers Hope to Keep Firefighters Safer
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Texas Tech Names New Horn Distinguished Professors
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Mike Portnoy and Vicki Cooper looking intently at one another in front of fossils hanging on a wall
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Mike Portnoy and Vicki Cooper Make Texas Tech Their Philanthropic Priority
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graphical representation of Memory Capabilities of Cell Membranes
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Texas Tech Researcher Explores the Memory Capabilities of Cell Membranes
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Texas Tech University Admin building in front of memorial circle
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Three Texas Tech Students Selected as 2026 Goldwater Scholars
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arts and sciences graduate student in the weight room smiling at someone on the distance
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Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Shows Discipline in the Weight Room
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Tech Tech Research Student in the lab analyzing content from a vial
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Texas Tech Makes National Academy of Inventors’ Top 100 for 4th Straight Year
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