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|2012 CASNR E-NEWSLETTER |[pic] |

|VOLUME 7, ISSUE 10 | |

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|STUDENT SPOTLIGHT | |

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|AEC Standout Students Are Among First Ranch | |

|House Designs Scholars | |

|Four students from Texas Tech University’s | |

|Department of Agricultural Education and | |

|Communications have been chosen to | |

|participate in the inaugural class of ‘Ranch| |

|House Designs Scholars,’ university | |

|officials announced on Wednesday (Oct. 3). | |

|In all, 27 students were selected from a | |

|pool of more than 100 students from 35 | |

|different universities. more » | |

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|FACULTY UPDATE | |

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|Notable Service; George Tereshkovich named | |

|to PSS Faculty Hall of Fame | |

|Retired Texas Tech professor George | |

|Tereshkovich has been named to the | |

|university’s Department of Plant and Soil | |

|Science Faculty Hall of Fame. He is the | |

|fourth member to be added to the | |

|distinguished group. more » | |

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|Texas Tech’s Mortar Board Spotlights | |

|Rathmann, Ulmer As Outstanding Faculty | |

|Two faculty members from the College of | |

|Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources | |

|have been recognized by Texas Tech’s Mortar | |

|Board and Omicron Delta Kappa organizations | |

|for their outstanding teaching ability. The | |

|honors were presented at a special ceremony | |

|held in the Merket Alumni Center on Monday | |

|(Oct. 1). more » | |

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|UPCOMING EVENTS | |

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|Author, Livestock Expert Temple Grandin Set | |

|to Speak at Texas Tech | |

|Temple Grandin, a woman with | |

|high-functioning autism who became a | |

|professor at Colorado State University and a| |

|pioneering designer of humane livestock | |

|facilities, will be a featured speaker at 7 | |

|p.m. on Tuesday (Oct. 30) at Texas Tech | |

|University’s Allen Theatre. more » | |

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|ν CASNR Pig Roast | |

|6:30 p.m. / Thurs., Nov 8, 2012 | |

|Lubbock Memorial Civic | |

|Center Banquet Hall | |

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|ν Last Day of Fall Classes | |

|Wednesday; December 5, 2012 | |

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|ν Final Examinations | |

|December 7-12, 2012 | |

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|ν Commencement | |

|Saturday; December 15, 2012 | |

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| |Timing; Not a Question of Whether U.S. Is Going to have A Farm Bill, But When |

| |The 2008 farm bill, which provides funding for a variety of nutrition programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition |

| |Assistance Program (formerly food stamps), as well as payments to farmers and agricultural programs, technically |

| |expired on Sept. 30. And the lack of congressional action has left a certain degree of uncertainty across the South |

| |Plains farm belt. more » |

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| |Thanks; CASNR hosts Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Officials Luncheon |

| |More than 150 Texas Tech University’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources students, faculty and |

| |guests took a moment to thank and express their appreciation to representatives from the Houston Livestock Show and |

| |Rodeo at a special scholarship luncheon on Monday (Oct. 22) at the university’s Red Raider Ballroom in the Student |

| |Union Building. more » |

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| |LA Alum Christopher Hoffman Named to National CLARB Leadership Team |

| |A graduate of Texas Tech University’s Department of Landscape Architecture has been elected Secretary of the Board of |

| |Directors for the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards, officials of the Reston, Va.-based |

| |organization reported today (Oct. 12). more » |

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| |In Profile: The Learning Community Advisers of Stangel/Murdough |

| |Each year, dozens of freshman live in what is known as the, ‘CASNR Learning Community.’ Housed on the second floor of |

| |the Stangel/Murdough complex on what is known as the ‘ag row’ of Texas Tech’s campus, students living in the community |

| |have the opportunity to experience a year of living with those who have similar agricultural interests and are taking |

| |many of the same courses. more » |

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| |American Royal; Tech’s Meat Judging Team a Cut Above the Competition |

| |Texas Tech’s meat judging team took first place honors Sunday (Oct. 21) at the American Royal’s Intercollegiate Meat |

| |Judging Contest. The win makes the fifth consecutive year the Red Raiders have won the Omaha, Neb., competition. more »|

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| |Texas Tech sets Another Enrollment Record, CASNR Brings 1,856 Students |

| |Texas Tech’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources continued its record-setting student enrollment |

| |pace, largely maintaining last year’s stellar numbers with 1,856 students signing up for classes in the fall semester, |

| |university officials report. Last year CASNR reached a new benchmark in student enrollment with a record 1,874 students|

| |attending the High Plains campus. more » |

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| |Take Up the Rake; NRM Students Lend a Hand on Canyon Lakes Phase II Cleanup |

| |A community-wide effort to help clean up Canyon Lakes #3, known by Guadalupe Barrio residents as “El Arroyo” rolled out|

| |on Saturday (Oct. 20), and included member of the Guadalupe Neighborhood Association, as well as a special group of |

| |students from Texas Tech’s Association for Natural Resource Scientists and Society for Conservation Biology. more » |

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| |Rodeo Update: Calf Roping Highlights Weekend’s Vernon College Rodeo |

| |Led by a championship roping performance from an agriculture economics major from Snyder, Texas Tech’s rodeo team had a|

| |strong outing this weekend at the Vernon College Southwest Region National Intercollegiate Rodeo in Wichita Falls. more|

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| |In Profile: Connor Wilmeth’s First Cotton Crop Is A True Learning Experience |

| |Connor Wilmeth is finishing up the first cotton crop he’s ever made on his own. Wilmeth, 20, is a junior plant and soil|

| |sciences major at Texas Tech University with “a passion to farm.” He secured a loan on his own this year and is growing|

| |cotton on 134 acres of leased land.  more » |

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| |CASNR Senior Maria Mejia Featured on National ‘Latinos in Agriculture’ Website |

| |Texas Tech University standout student Maria Mejia is featured this week in the latest edition of the ‘Latinos in |

| |Agriculture’ website. Masi, as she’s known to her friends, is currently a senior majoring in environmental conservation|

| |of natural resources.  more » |

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|Administrative Council | | |

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|DR. MICHAEL GALYEAN |DR. STEVE FRAZE |DR. RICHARD ZARTMAN |

|Dean |Agricultural Education |Plant & Soil Science |

|michael.galyean@ttu.edu |& Communications |richard.zartman@ttu.edu |

| |steven.fraze@ttu.edu | |

|DR. SUKANT MISRA | |JANE PIERCY |

|Associate Dean for Research |DR. LESLIE THOMPSON |Development & Alumni Relations |

|sukant.misra@ttu.edu |Animal & Food Sciences |jane.piercy@ttu.edu |

| |leslie.thompson@ttu.edu | |

|DR. CINDY AKERS | |NORMAN MARTIN |

|Associate Dean for Academic |DR. ALON KVASHNY |Marketing & Communications |

|& Student Programs |Landscape Architecture |norman.martin@ttu.edu |

|cindy.akers@ttu.edu |alon.kvashny@ttu.edu | |

| | |REAGAN RIBORDY |

|DR. EDUARDO SEGARRA |DR. MARK WALLACE |Grants Administrator |

|Agricultural & Applied Economics |Natural Resources Management |reagan.ribordy@ttu.edu |

|eduardo.segarra@ttu.edu |mark.wallace@ttu.edu | |

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|[pic] |College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources |

| |PO Box 42123 |

| |Lubbock, Texas 79409-2123 |

| |806.742.2808 phone |

| |806.742.2836 fax |

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