Texas Tech University

 

Zack in the Toxicology Lab

Welcome to Texas Tech University's Environmental Toxicology Department

The Department of Environmental Toxicology (ENTX) provides faculty and graduate students opportunities for multidisciplinary research and scholarly engagement related to environmental, forensic, and human health sciences. The Environmental Toxicology faculty attract graduate students at both the master’s and doctoral level, with their backgrounds in biological sciences, medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, engineering, chemistry, computer science, law, mathematics, pharmacology, physiology, and wildlife biology. The Forensic Science faculty are committed to the production and dissemination of interdisciplinary forensic science research through a unique multidisciplinary program that provides outstanding education, research, and professional training opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students at TTU and for local and regional law enforcement. Our department offers a Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology, M.S. in Environmental Toxicology, M.S. in Forensics Science, and two undergraduate minors (Environmental Toxicology and Forensic Sciences).

Morgan in the Environmental Toxicology field

Environmental Toxicology

The Department of Environmental Toxicology provides faculty and graduate students opportunities for multidisciplinary research and scholarly engagement related to environmental, forensic, and human health sciences.

Students learning forensic science techniques in a mock crime scene

Forensic Science

The Master of Science in Forensic Science degree program emphasizes extensive learning in the scientific and laboratory skills necessary for application in a modern forensic laboratory.

Chalk outline of a body at a simulated crime scene

Forensic Professional

The Forensic Professional degree is for individuals currently working in a forensic science field such as law enforcement, medical examiner offices, legal or forensic science laboratory settings to improve their skills leading to supervisory roles and promotion.

 

Student running research in environmental toxicology lab

RESEARCH

The Department of Environmental Toxicology has a regionally, nationally, and globally important multidisciplinary research focus on environmental, forensic, and human health sciences. The Department has a long history of internationally recognized research coupled with high-quality, well-developed research programs.

 
 

FACULTY

Our department is home to 17 tenured/tenure-track faculty members doing cutting-edge research in environmental and forensic sciences. We also have three Professors of Practice that bring decades of experience from practical crime scene processing contexts into the classroom.

 
Tenured environmental and forensic science faculty