SAN ANGELO, TX (05/20/2019) -- Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, is pleased to announce that the following students from your area have been named to the Dean’s List for the 2019 spring semester.
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (May 17, 2019) - Midwestern State University recognized 1,192 honor students for the Spring 2019 semester. The President’s Honor Roll included 433 students, the Provost’s Honor Roll included 365 students and the Dean’s Honor Roll included 394 students.
SAN ANGELO, TX (04/09/2019)-- Angelo State University’s student chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS), including Baxter Krug of De Leon, has received an Outstanding Chapter Award from the national ACS Committee on Education for the chapter’s activities during the 2017-18 academic year.
SAN ANGELO, TX (03/27/2019)-- Angelo State University’s chapter of the Alpha Chi national honor society inducted 39 new student members, including Dionicio Gutierrez of Dublin and one honorary member during a special initiation ceremony on March 25 in the Houston Harte University Center.
BROWNWOOD – April 1, 2019 – Howard Payne University’s Social Work Club will host its annual Project Cinderella this Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6. Young women from area high schools are invited to stop by HPU’s Girling Center for Social Justice (1308 Austin Avenue) between 1 p.m. and 6 …
Dr. Misty Smith was recently named the recipient of the Barry B. Thompson Service Award in the College of Health and Human Services at Tarleton State University. Misty graduated from Comanche High School and teaches in the Social Work Department at Tarleton. She is the daughter of Jimmy and …
Madison Hagood, senior pitcher for the Div. II Oklahoma Christian Lady Eagles softball team had a great week. She posted a 4-0 record. The senior worked 20 innings total allowing just one earned run while striking out 21 to improve to 10-2 on the season.
SAN ANGELO, TX (03/11/2019)-- Twenty-seven Angelo State University art majors, including Tairon Bryant of Comanche, entered their artworks for ASU's inaugural Art Student Juried Scholarship Exhibit. Six of the students also won scholarships for their winning entries.
Deadline approaching for Preservation Scholars Program
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Tarleton State University will host nine area junior high and high school bands March 5 and 6 at the ninth annual Invitational Band Festival.
COLLEGE STATION – Students at Texas A&M University in College Station are getting a taste of other cultures by learning about diverse foods, including those considered “fitting and proper” for various religious and ethnic groups.
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Dr. Tara O’Connor Shelley, professor and co-director of the Institute on Violence Against Women and Human Trafficking and co-director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Leadership and Public Policy in the School of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Strategic Studies…
BROWNWOOD – February 11, 2019 – The Arbor Day Foundation has once again recognized Howard Payne University as a Tree Campus USA® institution for the university’s ongoing commitment to effective urban forest management. HPU has received the Tree Campus USA designation since 2016.
STEPHENVILLE, Texas —Tarleton State University Professor of Biological Sciences Christopher L. Higgins has been chosen to serve on the communications committee for the Organization of Biological Field Stations.
(Washington, D.C., January 28, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today selected three highly-qualified individuals for senior leadership positions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Perdue named Dr. Mindy Brashears as Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety, Naomi…
STEPHENVILLE - Following a unanimous decision by the Student Government Association and the President's Cabinet, all of Tarleton's 14 intercollegiate athletic teams will unite under the Texans name beginning in August.
The University of Texas at Dallas unveiled this week yet another example of how it's becoming a power broker, not to mention a major player in the region's art scene.
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Cowboy poet John Pelham takes center stage for the annual Friends of the Dick Smith Library Dinner in the Stacks at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 2.
Ranger College President William J. Campion won a lot of games during his career as a basketball coach. He called even more during a 35-year period as a college referee before retiring from the court to focus on being one of the top small-college administrators in the United States.
ABILENE, TX (01/22/2019)-- Laura Hernandez of Comanche TX has been named to the Fall 2018 Dean's List for McMurry University. To be eligible for the Dean's List, a student must have maintained at least a 3.5 grade point average while taking twelve or more credit hours.
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STEPHENVILLE - The Lone Star Conference announced Tuesday that 110 Tarleton student-athletes have earned Commissioner's Honor Roll honors for the 2019 fall semester.
BROWNWOOD – January 17, 2019 – Howard Payne University’s School of Science and Mathematics introduced an innovative class this fall for students seeking to major in biology and a handful of other majors. The class has been named the S.T.I.N.G.E.R. Lab, which stands for Scientific Training fo…
Last month, I ended my letter to you with a call to root for Texas Football in the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day. It’s clear that the team heard your cheers and encouragement, whether in person or in spirit. Congratulations to Coach Herman and the team on their big win! What a wonderful way t…
WACO, Texas (Jan. 15, 2019) - More than 4,400 Baylor University students were named to the Dean's Academic Honor Roll for the 2018 fall semester. Students honored on the Dean's List are Baylor undergraduates with a minimum grade-point average of 3.7, while enrolled in a minimum of 12 semeste…
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Renowned dance company Step Afrika! will perform at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, in the theater of the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center in Stephenville to kick off Tarleton State University’s celebration of Black History Month.
RANGER – Make no mistake about, Ranger College men’s basketball head coach Billy Gillispie isn’t taking anything for granted over the next few weeks. Nothing is a given, especially in the rough-and-tumble Northern Texas Junior College Athletic Conference.
Complication rates and costs of invasive lung cancer diagnostic tests may be higher than anticipated
HOUSTON ― Complication rates following invasive diagnostic procedures for lung abnormalities were twice as high in the community setting compared to those reported in lung cancer screening trials, and associated downstream costs ranged from $6,320 to $56,845 on average, according to a new st…
BROWNWOOD – January 13, 2019 – The Brownwood Community Band will begin its spring rehearsals on Monday, January 14, at 7:30 p.m. in the Davidson Music Complex (Band Rehearsal Hall) on the Howard Payne University campus.
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Killeen attorney Gregory Simmons, a member of Tarleton State University’s Class of 1986, is keynote speaker for the school’s Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Breakfast on Monday, Jan. 21.
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Auditions for Tarleton State University’s spring 2019 musical, “Sister Act.” are set for 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, in the Workshop Theater of the Clyde H. Wells Fine Arts Center.
1/9/2019 | Baseball STEPHENVILLE - A longtime Texan trading the T's on his baseball hat as the head coach of the Tarleton Baseball program Bryan Conger has resigned to pursue a career in the professional ranks with the Texas Rangers Baseball Organization.
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WACO, Texas (Jan. 7, 2019) – Baylor University conferred degrees on more than 900 graduates during fall commencement exercises Dec. 15, 2018, in the Ferrell Center on the Baylor campus. Baylor’s mission is to educate students for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excel…
HOUSTON – John Mendelsohn, M.D., president emeritus of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and an internationally acclaimed leader in the field of medicine and scientist whose research helped pioneer a new type of cancer therapy, died Jan. 7 at his home in Houston. He was 82. T…
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Tarleton State University greets students back to campus for 2019 with a full slate of activities for Welcome Back Week featuring live music, activities and food beginning Monday, Jan. 14. Giovannie and the Hired Guns, a Texas country band based in Lipan, highlight Mond…
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS (01/03/2019)-- Angelo State University is pleased to announce the Dean's List for the 2018 Fall semester.
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — Dr. Leslie Spotz, professor of piano at Tarleton State University, will perform a public recital and present music as part of a special project upon returning from a semester-long faculty development leave to Asia, New York and Los Angeles.
STEPHENVILLE - Deon Sheppard is now the only Texan in Tarleton Football history with three All-America honors in the same season after the senior from San Antonio was named to the honorable mention team by D2Football.com.
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Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service photo by Kay LedbetterDr. Shuyu Liu leads the wheat genetics lab at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Amarillo. Three students help conduct major studies that improve the understanding of unique traits in TAM wheat cultivars.
STEPHENVILLE - Deon Sheppard, Jai Edwards, and Devin Hafford have been selected among the best in the nation by the Division II Conference Commissioner's Association with All-America honors Wednesday morning.
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BROWNWOOD – December 4, 2018 – Howard Payne University celebrated Texas Arbor Day recently with several activities on campus for 96 fifth-grade students from Coggin Intermediate School in Brownwood. HPU hosted the event as part of the university’s Tree Campus USA activities.
Rice U. scientists use Hawaiian hot spot to study movement of Earth’s poles
WACO, Texas (Nov. 15, 2018) - Baylor University offers one of the nation’s top entrepreneurship programs for students who aspire to launch their own businesses, according to the latest rankings released by The Princeton Review and featured in Entrepreneur magazine. Baylor’s entrepreneurship …
Jodi Cooley named fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
(This article by Shelley Hulme was originally published in TCU This Week on Nov. 26.)
People walk down a flooded street as they evacuate their homes after the area was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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