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|2020 CASNR E-NEWSLETTER |[pic] |

|VOLUME 15, ISSUE 11 | |

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|IN CASE YOU MISSED IT | |

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|PSS’s Abidi receives Discover Natural Fibres | |

|Initiative Innovation Award | |

|Noureddine Abidi, the Leidigh Professor in the | |

|Department of Plant and Soil Science and director | |

|of the Fiber & Biopolymer Research Institute, was | |

|awarded the 2020 Discover Natural Fibres Initiative| |

|Innovation Award for his work and the patent | |

|received for his discovery of changing low-grade | |

|cotton to a cellulose gel that can be used in a | |

|wide variety of ways. | |

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|STUDENT SPOTLIGHT | |

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|AEC’s Cason Lutrick named Ag Council ‘Matador of | |

|the Month’ | |

|Name: Cason Lutrick; Major: Agricultural | |

|Communications; Classification: Sophomore; | |

|Organization: AgriTechsans; Hometown: Godley, | |

|Texas; Month: October 2020 | |

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|DID YOU KNOW? | |

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|Make a Gift: Your gifts to CASNR help support | |

|scholarships & more | |

|CASNR’s leaders believe that Texas Tech is a campus| |

|of opportunity. Students who become Red Raiders | |

|have the opportunity to grow, learn and develop | |

|leadership skills, and CASNR graduates continue to | |

|be a testimony to CASNR’s success | |

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|LATEST ON THE VIRUS | |

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|CASNR Guide to the Pandemic | |

|As local, national and global health | |

|recommendations shift to reduce the spread of the | |

|virus, CASNR continues to take steps that will help| |

|protect our community. Visit the university's | |

|new Texas Tech Commitment page and the TTU | |

|COVID-19 page for information on updates and | |

|prevention guidelines. Separately, CASNR experts | |

|are stepping up to answer crucial questions | |

|surrounding COVID-19 and agriculture. | |

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|UPCOMING | |

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|ν CASNR Fall Commencement | |

|In-person, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020 | |

|(Virtual, Saturday, Dec. 19) | |

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|ν 7th Annual TAWC Water College | |

|Zoom Conference | |

|Jan. 20-21, 2021 | |

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|ν CASNR Spring First Class Day | |

|Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 | |

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|ν CASNR Spring Commencement | |

|Saturday, May 15, 2021 | |

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|ν CASNR Summer Term I | |

|First Class Day | |

|Wednesday, Jun. 2, 2021 | |

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|ν CASNR Summer Term II | |

|First Class Day | |

|Tuesday, July 6, 2021 | |

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| |When Texas Tech University met the initial student enrollment threshold in 2017 to be designated as a Hispanic-Serving|

| |Institution, researchers from Tech’s Department of Agricultural Education & Communications began having discussions |

| |with counterparts at Eastern New Mexico University on how that could benefit both institutions. Specifically, their |

| |focus was on developing a pipeline between the two schools in order to increase and retain Hispanic undergraduate |

| |students for degree completion at Texas Tech and encourage pursuit of graduate degrees in agricultural and natural |

| |resources disciplines. The solution was to develop the Initiating and Mobilizing a Pipeline in Agricultural Careers |

| |Training Program, designed to address the problems of low student retention, low degree completion and low pursuit of |

| |graduate degrees in ANR disciplines among Hispanic students. That program recently received a huge boost from the USDA|

| |NIFA Cooperative State Research Education & Extension Service, which awarded AEC researchers Amy Boren-Alpízar and |

| |Erica Irlbeck a $1 million grant. >> more |

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| |Meat Judging Team claims 15th intercollegiate national championship |

| |This year, in the age of COVID-19, Texas Tech claimed its second straight and 15th overall national crown in its home |

| |state by winning the High Plains Intercollegiate Meat Judging Contest hosted by Caviness Beef Packers. “They [the |

| |team] dedicated themselves and worked so hard to achieve this," said Mark Miller, team coach and the San Antonio Stock|

| |Show and Rodeo Distinguished Chair in Meat Sciences. |

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| |In Profile: NRM’s Garcia turns love of the outdoors into budding NPS career |

| |After earning his bachelor's degree in wildlife biology from the Department of Natural Resources Management in 2015, |

| |Brandon Garcia has turned his educational focus and love of outdoors into a career with the U.S. National Parks |

| |Service. As a biological science technician in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, he helps protect and preserve |

| |the wildlife in the park and make sure all visitors have a safe experience. |

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| |Gallery: Texas Tech’s newly renovated Dairy Barn weathers an early winter |

| |A winter storm rolled into Lubbock late last month with lightening and freezing rain, creating slippery roadways and |

| |delaying Texas Tech classes. One silver lining to the wintery weather was the serene setting surrounding CASNR's |

| |recently renovated Dairy Barn. The historic building was none the worse for wear as a coating of ice slowly melted |

| |throughout the day, and the campus quickly came back to life.  |

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| |AFS team receives USDA grant to further research on imported food safety |

| |A long-term food safety project recently received additional funding from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Services' |

| |Office of Capacity Building and Development in the form of a grant for $400,000 that will target Colombia, Ecuador, |

| |Paraguay and Peru with the latest iteration of these technical assistance efforts, reports Marcos X. Sanchez-Plata, an|

| |associate professor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences.  |

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| |LA students design CDRC preschool outdoor classroom honoring Marjie Collins |

| |This semester Muntazar Monsur and Daniel Phillips, assistant professors in the Department of Landscape Architecture, |

| |are leading a new project honoring a valued, long-time university employee. LARC 2413: Studio 3 class is closely |

| |working with the Christine DeVitt and Helen DeVitt Jones Child Development Research Center to design an outdoor |

| |classroom in the organization's preschool playground area. |

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| |AFS’s Jerrad Legako details keys to your best beef-eating experience |

| |What makes a great steak? No question, flavor is at least equivalent to tenderness in importance to the overall eating|

| |experience, if not a little more, says Jerrad Legako, an associate professor with the Department of Animal and Food |

| |Sciences. But what is flavor, and how is it experienced. Well, it's a complex combination, said the Lubbock-based meat|

| |science researcher. |

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| |AFS barrel racer Carly Christian shines in 73rd Texas Tech annual rodeo |

| |Carly Christian garnered first place honors in the barrel racing category at the Texas Tech Rodeo Association's 73rd |

| |Annual Rodeo, held near Lubbock at the end of October. The junior animal science major from Amarillo rode Sunshine, |

| |her five-year-old mare. "She [Sunshine] is young, but really handles everything so good," Christian said. The Texas |

| |Tech Rodeo Team competes in the NIRA’s Southwest region. |

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| |PSS’s Simpson heads MASTERS project aimed at boosting student opportunities |

| |Catherine Simpson, an assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Science, is the project director for a |

| |group of researchers who are part of a program called MASTERS – Mentoring Agriculture Students through Training, |

| |Experiential learning and Research Skills. The program, backed by a $272,999 grant from the USDA, is focused on |

| |providing assistance to underserved and underrepresented students. |

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| |Wendy Woerner joins AFS as new Raider Red Meats Sales Manager |

| |Wendy Woerner has been named sales manager of Raider Red Meats, the retail aspect of the Department of Animal & Food |

| |Sciences. Her goals include advancing the Raider Red Meats' brand to achieve and maintain national recognition, as |

| |well as adhering to the core value and mission of providing real-world experience to college students while generating|

| |revenue for the Raider Red Meats endowment. |

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|Administrative Council | | |

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|DR. WILLIAM BROWN |DR. MICHAEL ORTH |DR. GLEN RITCHIE |

|Dean |Animal & Food Sciences |Plant & Soil Science |

|william.f.brown@ttu.edu |michael.orth@ttu.edu |glen.ritchie@ttu.edu |

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|DR. CINDY AKERS |DR. SCOTT BURRIS |DR. MICHAEL BALLOU |

|Associate Dean for Academic |Agricultural Education |Veterinary Sciences |

|& Student Programs |& Communications |michael.ballou@ttu.edu |

|cindy.akers@ttu.edu |scott.burris@ttu.edu | |

| | |NORMAN MARTIN |

|DR. CHRISTY BRATCHER |ERIC BERNARD |Marketing & Communications |

|Associate Dean for Research |Landscape Architecture |norman.martin@ttu.edu |

|christy.bratcher@ttu.edu |eric.bernard@ttu.edu | |

| | |JANE PIERCY |

|DR. PHILLIP JOHNSON |DR. WARREN CONWAY |Development & |

|Agricultural & Applied Economics |Natural Resources Management |Alumni Relations |

|phil.johnson@ttu.edu |warren.conway@ttu.edu |jane.piercy@ttu.edu |

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| | |LINDA WHITEBREAD |

| | |Administration & Finance  |

| | |linda.whitebread@ttu.edu |

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| |College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources |

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| |Lubbock, Texas 79409-2123 |

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