Dr. Jorge Salazar-Bravo appointed as the Interim Director of the International Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Land Studies (ICASALS)

The International Center for Arid and Semiarid Land Studies at Texas Tech University was created in 1966 to promote the university's special mission of the interdisciplinary study of arid and semiarid environments and the human relationship to these environments from an international perspective.

Beginning November 1, 2019, Dr. Jorge Salazar-Bravo will serve as the Interim Director of the International Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Land Studies (ICASALS). Office of International Affairs look forward to Dr. Salazar-Bravo's leadership in stimulating, coordinating, and implementing teaching, research, and public service activities concerning all aspects of the world's arid and semiarid regions, their people and their problems. Dr. Jorge Salazar-Bravo, Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, specializes in the evolution and systematics of Neotropical mammals and the interplay between systematics and disease ecology. Originally from Bolivia, Dr. Salazar now calls Lubbock home. He completed his undergrad in La Paz, Bolivia at the public university and his doctorate at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Salazar-Bravo joined the faculty of Texas Tech University in 2003 where he currently teaches courses such as Evolution, and Ecology & Environmental Problems.