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Texas State Anthropology researchers are using grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice to examine the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and bone...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2024/anthropology-researchers-study-bmi-impact-on-bone-structure.html

Texas State University and Austin Community College District have partnered on a new “Bats to Cats” guaranteed transfer program to provide a clear path to both an associate and bachelor’s d...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/txst-partners-with-acc-for-bats-to-cats-transfer-program.html

Texas State University’s Career Services recently acquired Iris, a self-service photo booth equipped to take free, high-quality professional headshots that are sent to an email address.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/career-services-opens-headshot-photo-booth.html

Chenoa Tremblay, Ph.D., a project scientist at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute, will deliver the keynote address during the “Math In Space and the Unbreakable Bond...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/chenoa-tremblay-math-in-space-keynote.html

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District IV honored Texas State University President Kelly Damphousse, Ph.D., with the Dr. E Joseph Savoie Chief Executive Leadership A...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/damphousse-receives-case-executive-leadership-award.html

The Texas State University chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) will host the Julia Robinson Math Festival in observance of Math and Statistics Awareness Month on ...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/julia-robinson-math-festival.html

Hank Hehmsoth, an associate professor of practice in the School of Music at Texas State University, has released his latest jazz album, “Blu-Escape.” A 2023 TXST Research Enhancement Progra...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2024/hank-hehmsoth-releases-his-5th-album.html

James Moore III, Ph.D., assistant director for the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) at the National Science Foundation (NSF), visited Texas State University for an insightful discussion on th...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/nsf-engages-txst-in-stem-research.html

The Center for Professional Sales at Texas State University's McCoy College of Business was awarded Best Sales Program by its accrediting agency, the University Sales Center Alliance (USCA). Th...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/center-for-professional-sales-named-best-sales-program.html

Two Texas State University doctoral students have been selected as winners of the Dissertation Fellowship from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. This highly competitive, $10,000 national fello...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2024/doctoral-students-receive-phi-kappa-phi-awards.html

Texas State University (TXST) has partnered with the Texas Office of Attorney General (OAG) to create the inaugural TXST Cold Case Team to help investigate unsolved crimes in the state. The Col...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/txst-attorney-general-office-partnership.html

Lillian Dees, a Texas State University alum, former director of the LBJ Student Center and senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, has designated the Lillian Dees and Darla Wood Endowed S...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/estate-gift-for-sociology-scholarships.html

The Graduate College at Texas State University is hosting the 15th annual Graduate Student Research Conference at the San Marcos Campus on April 2 from 4-6 p.m. in the LBJ Student Center Grand Ba...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/txst-to-host-15th-annual-gsrc.html

Texas State University’s (TXST) efforts to attain Research-1 (R1) Carnegie classification status—embodied by the Run to R1 initiative launched in early 2023—are reflected in record-setting ...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2024/txst-sets-all-time-research-record.html

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has inducted Pranesh B. Aswath , Ph.D., provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs at Texas State University, ...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2024/aswath-inducted-into-aimbe-college-of-fellows.html

Even though she misses the feeling of rushing to class in between breaks at the river and baking goods for her residence hall, Texas State University performance and production alum Dannie McCall...

https://news.txst.edu/alumni-impact/2024/txst-alum-lands-role-in-marvels-echo.html

Texas State University alums Bailey and Anthony Smith are featured contestants on the 36th Season of CBS’ “The Amazing Race.” Graduates of TXST’s communication studies program, the twin b...

https://news.txst.edu/alumni-impact/2024/txst-alums-featured-on-the-amazing-race.html

Texas State University is hosting the 2024 Innovation Lab showcase on March 10, 2024, in Austin, TX during the SXSW Interactive Festival. Participating faculty, staff, students, and alumni will...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2024/2024-sxsw-innovation-lab-showcase.html

The American Council on Education (ACE) has named Debbie Thorne, senior vice provost at Texas State University, an ACE Fellow for academic year 2024-25.  Thorne was among 26 emerging colleg...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2024/thorne-named-to-american-council-on-education-fellows-program.html

Texas State faculty have launched a new Family Business Research Productivity Ranking, a tool designed to highlight the top scholars and universities conducting research in family business. The...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2024/txst-faculty-create-family-business-research-productivity-ranking.html

The Texas State University System Board of Regents recognized three Texas State University faculty members as TSUS Regents’ Teachers for 2023. The awards were presented Feb. 23 at the TSUS Bo...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2024/txst-faculty-honored-as-tsus-regents-teachers.html

Joni McCawley, a junior electrical engineering major at Texas State University, was selected as the winner of the Cooperative Education and Internship Association (CEIA) Internship Student Achiev...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2024/student-wins-ceia-award.html

New research from The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University uncovers a concerning decline in the state’s groundwater resources, finding that the number of dry s...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2024/research-shows-increase-in-texas-dry-springs.html

Jamil Jan Kochai ’s story collection, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories, has won the 2024 L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize. The $25,000 prize—one of the largest litera...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/kochai-wins-2024-clark-fiction-prize.html

A team of students in Texas State University’s American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student chapter will compete at the 2024 Geo-Congress , the yearly ASCE Geo-Institute conference, in V...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2024/civil-engineering-students-compete-at-national-conference.html

Jim Gann and his late wife, Ann Nell Gann, have become the newest TXST Heroes following a $1 million donation to Texas State University to support water research and endowed student scholarships....

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/gann-family-named-txst-heroes.html

On Nov. 9, 2023, the SpaceX Falcon rocket departed Kennedy Space Center in Florida and began its trajectory to the International Space Station (ISS). Among other things, the mission, “SpaceX C...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2024/graduate-students-collaborate-for-nasa-mission.html

Two undergraduate students from the Ingram School of Engineering have secured summer engineering internships with Cargill, a company dedicated to improving the sustainability and efficiency of fo...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2024/engineering-students-secure-cargill-internships.html

Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th president of the United States, famously wore a Stetson Open Road Royal Deluxe Silverbelly cowboy hat during his years in office. Now, visitors to Texas State Universi...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/texas-state-receives-lbj-stetson-hat.html

Texas State University (TXST) has set several new enrollment records for the spring 2024 semester, led by a record 31,704 undergraduate students, a 3% increase over the previous year. Overall, ...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/txst-sets-spring-enrollment-record.html

U.S. News and World Report has named three Texas State University programs among the Best Online Programs for 2024. Texas State’s top program placements nationally came in the categories Onli...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/txst-online-programs-ranked-best-in-nation.html

The Round Rock Chamber of Commerce named Texas State University’s Round Rock Campus “Business of the Year” during the chamber’s 56th annual Business Awards celebration. Kelly Damphouss...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/round-rock-campus-named-business-of-the-year.html

Texas State University Vice President for University Advancement Brooks Hull has named Kristi Troxel the new executive director of alumni engagement. Troxel has served as the university’s di...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/kristi-troxel-named-director-of-alumni-engagement.html

Texas State University (TXST) will host a TEDx event with the theme of “resolve” on Saturday, Feb. 24. The speaker seminar will be held 12:30-4 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center Recital Hall...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/txst-hosts-2024-tedx-event.html

In celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day (Feb. 7), The Graduate College is highlighting the achievements of female student-athletes who are currently pursuing or have earned grad...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2024/women-in-sports-day.html

For more than 30 years, Dr. Emilio Carranco, assistant vice president for Student Success and director of University Health Services, has advocated for the health and well-being of Texas State Un...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/emilio-carranco-retires.html

Texas State University faculty, staff, and students can access free Naloxone (Narcan) nasal spray on both the San Marcos and Round Rock campuses. Narcan is a medication used to rapidly reverse ...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/narcan-distribution-program.html

With the enrollment growth of Texas State University (TXST), building new campus facilities isn’t slowing down. Thanks to a rule dedicating 1% of construction project budgets to public art, new...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/tsus-recruits-new-public-artists.html

Astronomy researchers from the department of physics have opened the doors to Space Lab, Texas State’s first-ever research lab dedicated to space science.  Located on the fourth floor of the...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/physics-department-opens-txst-space-lab.html

Texas State University professor Soe Myint, Ph.D., is embarking on a three-year project with researchers across the nation to promote climate resiliency in eight Southeast Asian countries.

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2024/soe-myint-studies-climate-resiliency.html

Allowing children to help out in the classroom supports their learning and development, according to the findings of a new study coauthored by Texas State University researcher Kiyomi Sánchez-Su...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2024/benefits-of-letting-children-help-out.html

Returning to your alma mater is sure to stir nostalgia of campus experiences. In the case of acclaimed TV and film director Thomas Carter, long days of reading lines of dialogue dominate his memo...

https://news.txst.edu/alumni-impact/2024/thomas-carter-alumni-series.html

The National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has awarded Texas State University a grant to study prescription drug abuse among youths.  The four-year, $1.25 mi...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2024/txst-researchers-study-youth-drug-abuse.html

Alejandra Sanchez, a master’s student in international studies at Texas State University, spent summer 2023 studying Swahili and immersing herself in Tanzanian culture through the Critical Lan...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2024/critical-language-scholar-reflects-on-tanzania-trip.html

Texas State University has been advanced to the First Scholars phase of the First Scholars Network by the Center for First-generation Student Success , an initiative of NASPA and The Suder Found...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/txst-recognized-for-first-gen-student-success.html

Law enforcement officers from across the country have converged on Texas State University for the 34th Annual Competition and Seminar for Crisis Negotiations, which runs Jan. 9-11. The program is...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/txst-hosts-hostage-negotiation-competition.html

Texas State University’s (TXST) Connected Infrastructure for Education, Demonstration and Applied Research (CIEDAR ) Consortium has announced a liaison agreement with Boston-based Digital Twin...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2024/txst-announces-digital-twin-consortium-partnership.html

Two Texas State University Ph.D. students, Emilie Wiedenmeyer and Petra Banks, were among the 110 doctoral students in the U.S. and Canada selected to receive the $20,000 Scholar Award from the ...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2024/doctoral-students-receive-peo-scholar-awards.html

Texas State University entered into an Interagency Contract (IAC) with the Texas Workforce Commission to conduct quality assurance testing on products sold through the State Use Program, otherwis...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2024/txst-researchers-conduct-quality-assurance-for-twc.html

Duane Knudson, Ph.D., a TSUS Regents’ Professor, is one of over a dozen TXST faculty members listed in Stanford University’s World Top 2% Scientists list. The Stanford ranking is updated an...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/txst-professors-named-top-two-percent-scientists.html

Hank Hehmsoth, an associate professor of practice in the School of Music at Texas State University, has received an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Plus Award as a c...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/txst-composer-earns-ascap-music-award.html

Money magazine has named Texas State University’s health administration master’s program one of the “Best Grad School Programs in America” for 2024.  For the inaugural graduate school...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/health-administration-program-among-best-in-us.html

For more than 400 million years, sharks have swum Earth’s oceans. Before the first dinosaurs appeared, sharks filled every ocean. Surprisingly, sharks have changed very little during that span ...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/txst-researchers-examine-shark-mutation-rates.html

Researchers from Texas State University’s Ingram School of Engineering are implementing innovative wastewater treatment methods to improve the quality and aesthetics of reusable water. Led by...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/txst-researchers-implement-innovative-wastewater-treatment-methods.html

The Graduate College is pleased to announce that seven Texas State University doctoral students have received the Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award in the 2023 competition . Nationally, 200 s...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/doctoral-students-love-of-learning-award.html

A team of Texas State researchers recently traveled to Australia to present their work related to the challenges university educators face incorporating healthcare data into curriculum and progra...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/txst-researchers-present-at-australia-conference.html

Standard course work is the staple of providing an education to students, but learning and working in the field can amplify what’s taught in the classroom by including real-world experience. ...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/service-learning-students-workshop-garden.html

More than 2,800 candidates for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees are expected to cross the stage during six commencement ceremonies to be held at Texas State University on Dec. 8-9.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/fall-2023-commencement.html

Klaus Pontoppidan, Ph.D., a researcher with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will deliver a presentation on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on Dec. 7 in Ingram Hall R...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/nasa-researcher-discusses-telescope-discoveries.html

New research conducted in part at Texas State University has identified 10 previously unknown species of trilobites, hidden for 490 million years in a little-studied part of Thailand. These and 3...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/extinct-trilobite-species-discovered-by-txst-researcher.html

Texas State University, Saleen Performance and Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area (WSRCA) have partnered to bring a no-cost, cutting-edge training program in composite materials to students a...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/texas-state-round-rock-saleen-partnership.html

Seven students from the McCoy College of Business at Texas State University represented the Center for Professional Sales at the 12th Annual International Collegiate Sales Competition  ...

https://www.mccoy.txst.edu/news/archive/2023/2023-11-20-sales-team-zamponi.html

In a significant achievement for Texas State University, the College of Education’s Teacher Residency Program has received reapproval from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) for the 2023-24 acade...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/teacher-residency-program-reapproval.html

Ryan Anderson, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Sciences at Texas State University, and Bradley Borges, a senior lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Sciences...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/welding-usda-grant.html

Governor Greg Abbott has congratulated Texas State University for its continued commitment to veterans.  Abbott honored Texas State and 20 other Texas public institutions of higher education o...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txst-honored-for-veterans-education-excellence.html

The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) has announced that Texas State University (TXST) in San Marcos, Texas, will host the first in a series of four scheduled general election debates on M...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txst-selected-to-host-2024-presidential-debate.html

Arzu Ari, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Respiratory Care, and Cyrus Cassells III, a professor in the Department of English at Texas State University, have been named Regents’ Professo...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txst-faculty-named-tsus-regents-professors.html

Graduate student, Carlos Sanchez, has been awarded the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) Local Competition Fellowship administered by the U.S. Department of Tra...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/graduate-student-receives-transportation-fellowship.html

William “Bill” Hobson and Loma Hobson have made a gift of $250,000 to Texas State University to establish a permanent endowed scholarship for students pursuing a nursing degree. 

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/hobson-gift-supports-nursing-scholarships.html

Texas State University has been awarded top ranking status in 11 categories for 2024 by Intelligent.com, a website that offers curated guides to help students make informed decisions about higher...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txst-receives-intelligent-recognition.html

The Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center at Texas State University has received an $11 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing ...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/alerrt-center-receives-doj-grant.html

A team of researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope led by Andrea Banzatti, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Texas State University, has made a breakthrough dis...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/telescope-planet-formation.html

The Three-Minute Thesis competition is an event where graduate students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis or dissertation research and its significance to a lay a...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/three-minute-thesis-recap.html

The Small Producer Initiative (SPI) at Texas State University has received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2501 Program along with a $400,000 cooperative agreement wi...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/small-producers-initiative-grant.html

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded Texas State University a grant to develop cost-effective supply chain and business model innovations to enable Banglad...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/usaid-grant-bangladesh.html

Hillviews magazine has published its fall issue with a fresh batch of stories that highlight the transformative experience and powerful reach of a Texas State University education.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/fall-hillviews-magazine.html

The recipients of Texas State University's Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award for works published in 2021-22— Aida Salazar and Celia Pérez—will be honored Nov. 9 at Tex...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/tomas-rivera-book-awards.html

Texas State University is delighted to announce the appointment of Michael Preston, Ed.D., as the associate vice president for Student Success. He will begin his position on Dec. 4.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txst-welcomes-new-avp-student-success.html

Page Michel, president and CEO of the San Marcos Area Chamber of Commerce, will deliver the keynote address at the kickoff 50th anniversary reception for the Department of Organization, Workforce...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/owls-50th-anniversary.html

Texas State University will host a panel discussion to celebrate the publication of “LBJ’s America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson” on Wednesday, Nov. 1. The panel discussio...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/lbj-america-book-panel-discussion.html

Texas State University’s Office of Disability Services (ODS) will host “Bobcat Care: College Student Mental Health Panel Discussion” on Thursday, Nov. 2, from 5-7 p.m. in the LBJ Student Ce...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/txst-ods-hosts-mental-health-panel.html

At the request of local officials in Hawaii, Officer Kendra Marsteller of the Texas State University Police Department and Texas State therapy dog Brady deployed to Maui for two weeks in late Sep...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txst-officer-maui-deployment-reflection.html

Texas State University has been named as a Fulbright HSI (Hispanic-Serving Institution) Leader for 2023. Each year, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (EC...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txst-named-fulbright-hsi-leader.html

The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University and BlueTriton Brands, Inc., have launched an expanded three-year partnership to continue working together to ensure the...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/meadows-center-blue-triton-partnership.html

Food sustainability stays top of mind for many communities, especially those experiencing drought, floods, wildfires, and other climate-related disasters. While considering alternate futures and ...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/ymca-grant-community-garden.html

Texas State University has been named among “America’s Top Colleges” for 2023 by Forbes.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/forbes-ranking-2023.html

The Texas School Safety Center (TxSSC) at Texas State University has been awarded a grant from the Department of Justice’s STOP School Violence Prevention Program in support of school behaviora...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txssc-receives-doj-grant.html

Following an extensive national search, Texas State University has named Matthew Hall its Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer (VPIT/CIO).

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/matthew-hall-vp-it.html

Texas State University will host a variety of Homecoming Week activities for students, employees, alumni, and the San Marcos community Oct. 22-28.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/homecoming-events-2023.html

The Association of Texas Graduate Schools hosts an annual meeting to discuss best practices, goals, and current problems common to graduate programs in Texas. Having been asked to present at the ...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/dr-giuffre-presents-at-atgs-conference.html

Acclaimed actor Richard Robichaux is the newest addition to Texas State University’s drama faculty in the Department of Theatre and Dance, and that suits him just fine.

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/richard-robichaux-joins-txst-faculty.html

Bruce and Kelly Smith have made gifts totaling $1 million to Texas State University, the majority of which will support student scholarships in the McCoy College of Business.  

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/bruce-smith-gift.html

Texas State has announced the inaugural President’s Leadership Class (PLC) cohort, a selective leadership program for first-year students entering the university.

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/inaugural-presidents-leadership-class.html

Central Texas is about to experience a celestial rarity: a pair of solar eclipses six months apart. Sightseers and amateur astronomers from around the world are expected to flock to the state to ...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/coming-eclipses-promise-celestial-spectacle.html

April Chai, a fourth-year criminal justice doctoral student at Texas State University, has received a Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) for her disse...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/april-chai-nij-fellowship.html

As part of Sociology Week at Texas State University, Krzysztof Konecki, Ph.D., chair of Sociology at the University of Lodz in Poland, will discuss the efforts to evacuate Ukrainian scholars from...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/evacuation-of-ukrainian-academics-from-war-zone-topic-of-polish-guest-lecture.html

Melinda Villagran, Ph.D., executive director of the Translational Health Research Center at Texas State University, has received a federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Servic...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/melinda-villagran-samhsa-grant.html

Tiankai Wang, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Health Informatics & Information Management at Texas State University, has received a U.S. Department of Transportation grant to study links...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/health-impacts-transportation-grant.html

Texas State University jumped 51 spots on U.S. News and World Report’s Best National Universities ranking for 2024, among the largest improvements in the nation. 

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txst-leaps-51-spots-in-us-news-and-word-report-rankings.html

Navigating the virtual learning space can be challenging for both students and instructors. Texas State University’s Teaching Space of Tomorrow is designed to make it easier. Devised by the Div...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/teaching-space-of-tomorrow-enhances-virtual-learning-experience.html

Texas State University’s Translational Health Research Center (THRC) has announced new applied research partnerships with the 2023-2024 faculty fellows cohort.

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/translational-health-research-center-names-2023-24-faculty-fellows.html

Kendra Marsteller, the mental health officer with the Texas State University Police Department, and Brady, the Texas State therapy dog, are in the midst of a two-week trip to Maui to provide aid ...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txst-mental-health-officer-and-therapy-dog-support-maui-fire-victims.html

For the third consecutive year, Texas State University has been honored with a gold designation in the Veteran Education Excellence Recognition Award by the Texas Veterans Commission’s (TVC) Ve...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/texas-veterans-commission-award.html

In the sciences, “wicked” describes intractable problems requiring diverse strategies to manage. Such was the approach at “Climate Science: The Good, The Bad, and The Wicked,” a conferenc...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/meadows-center-conference-tackles-climate-change-and-resiliency.html

Texas State University students, faculty, and staff now have access to free Google career certificate programs that are designed to boost in-demand skills for fields ranging from data analytics t...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/grow-with-google-program.html

Texas State University will host a dedication ceremony on Sept. 14 to rename the Undergraduate Academic Center (UAC) on the San Marcos Campus to the Denise M. Trauth and John L. Huffman Hall.  

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txst-renaming-building-in-honor-of-denise-trauth-and-john-huffman.html

Texas State University has announced a record-setting freshman enrollment for the third consecutive year, with 7,892 first-year students representing a 3.3% increase over fall 2022. 

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/record-freshman-class-for-third-consecutive-year.html

Texas State University has named Sharon Ugalde, Ph.D., university distinguished professor in the Department of World Languages and Literatures, as the inaugural recipient of the University Humani...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/sharon-ugalde-humanities-research-excellence.html

“Evolution Earth,” a new PBS docuseries, features chimpanzee research and interviews with Jill Pruetz, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University. The show t...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/pruetz-pbs-docuseries.html

The Crankstart Foundation has awarded a grant to Texas State University to support students returning to higher education after a time away. 

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/crankstart-grant.html

Texas State University’s Career Services office is piloting a revamped job-shadowing program to offer students behind-the-scenes insights into a variety of careers.

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/bobcatshadow-program.html

Shetay Ashford-Hanserd, associate professor and chair of the Department of Organization, Workforce and Leadership Studies (OWLS) at Texas State University, has been awarded a National Science Fo...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/acceyss-program-poised-to-expand-into-national-consortium.html

Texas State University’s Chapter Beta Epsilon of the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society Sigma Delta Pi has been named one of 12 Honor Chapters in the U.S. in recognition of outstanding ...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/sigma-delta-pi-earns-national-award.html

Ionut Popescu, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, has been awarded the 2023 Freedom and Opportunity Academic Prize by The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based c...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/popescu-awarded-heritage-foundation-prize.html

Within The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University is an archive of New Mexico historian Marc Simmons, including several kachina dolls gifted to Simmons from members of the Hopi tribe.

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/students-take-the-lead-in-wittliff-collections-exhibit.html

By studying the grades of collegiate athletes, Texas State University researchers have identified psychological factors that tend to result in better academic performance. The researchers say the...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/success-factors-for-students.html

The Department of Agricultural Sciences at Texas State University will host a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence from Bangladesh during the 2023-2024 academic year.  

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/fubright-scholar-in-residence.html

The Texas State University System Foundation Board of Directors has named five Texas State University representatives recipients of the 2023 TSUS Regents’ Awards.

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/tsus-regents-awards-for-2024.html

Nanomaterials research is one of the most dynamic fields of scientific study in the world today. At the atomic level, common materials and compounds can be arranged and combined in novel ways to ...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/tunable-periodic-electrical-potential.html

For the fifth consecutive year, Texas State University has been named among the top institutions for social impact on the Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings for 2023.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txst-among-top-institutions-for-social-impact.html

Say What! (Students, Adults, and Youth Working Hard Against Tobacco), a program of the Texas School Safety Center (TxSSC) at Texas State University, will welcome more than 300 grade 6-12 students...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/say-what-texas-tobacco-free-conference.html

STEM courses—including physics—tend to be purely objective and fact-based. This approach can fall short when it comes to preparing students for the complex ethical questions they often face d...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/preparing-the-next-generation-of-physicists-to-consider-ethics.html

Round Rock ranks No. 1 on a list of the most desirable places to live in the United States, according to a “Today” show countdown of booming cities.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/round-rock-named-best-place-to-live.html

New research from Bob Fischer, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Texas State University, argues that incorporating animal welfare into policymaking may improve policy an...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/policymakers-should-consider-animal-welfare.html

Texas State University’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) is partnering with Future Maker Studios to create a “Future Maker Accelerator” at the Albert B. Alkek Library.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/future-maker-accelerator.html

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has recognized Texas State University’s Division of Marketing and Communications with two Gold Circle of Excellence Awards for 2023.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/gold-circle-of-excellence-awards.html

José Martínez Hinestroza, an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas State University, has been awarded the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Faculty Ea...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/understanding-math-participation-in-bilingual-classrooms.html

Texas State University’s College of Education, Round Rock ISD (RRISD) and Austin Community College District (ACC) celebrated the launch of a new teacher preparation partnership to help add...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txst-partners-to-address-texas-teacher-workforce-shortage.html

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy died June 13 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the age of 89.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/cormac-mccarthy.html

For the second consecutive election cycle, Texas State University has been designated a “Voter Friendly Campus” by a national nonpartisan initiative.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/voter-friendly-campus.html

Texas State University placed second in the nation at this year’s American Advertising Federation’s (AAF) National Student Advertising Competition  (NSAC) in St. Louis June 3-4.

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/txst-named-national-runner-up-in-advertising-competition.html

Juneteenth marks the anniversary of June 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston with Union troops at the end of the Civil War to occupy Texas and deliver news of the emancip...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/juneteenth-events.html

The Texas State University Police Department has a new resource available for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault: Detective Sandra Spriegel.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/upd-expands-victim-services-support.html

The serenity of Spring Lake will get its annual jolt of competitive churn on June 10 when more than 300 racers in 155 canoes line up in the spring-fed waters for the start of the Texas Water Saf...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/texas-water-safari.html

Adriana Montoya, a public administration major from the Honors College will represent Texas State University as one of 154 Newman Civic Fellows for the 2023 cohort – an honor given to outstandi...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/newman-civic-fellowship.html

Texas State University has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop and improve welding instruction in four-year academic...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/usda-boost-standardized-welding-training.html

Growing up in San Antonio, Texas State University alum Lauren Chappell would occasionally drive west with her family on US Highway 90, crossing the Nueces River in areas where scant pools of wate...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/resilience-of-fish-during-severe-drought.html

Following an extensive national search, Thillainatarajan “Thilla” Sivakumaran has been named the inaugural vice president for TXST Global at Texas State University. 

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/vice-president-for-txst-global.html

With a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Carlton Fong, an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas State University, and Taylor Acee, a profess...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/improving-math-outcomes-at-college-level.html

Eleven Texas State University graduate students have been awarded the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) International Peace Scholarship for 2023-2024.

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/peo-international-peace-scholarships.html

Texas State University has been ranked in the top 6.3% out of 20,531 universities worldwide in the 2023 edition of the “Global 2000 List by the Center for World University Rankings” published...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txst-ranked-in-top-universities-worldwide.html

Texas State University’s Division of Research is offering a series of workshops designed to help faculty members commercialize their innovations and deploy them to solve real-world problems.

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/faculty-innovation-accelerator-program.html

Miriam F. Williams, a professor of English and associate chair of the Department of English at Texas State University, has been honored with the Ken Rainey Award for Distinguished Research by the...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/miriam-f-williams-honored-with-ken-rainey-award.html

Texas State University has been named one of the nation’s Best Colleges for Adults in 2023 by Abound, an online college guidance system for degree-seeking adults.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/best-colleges-for-adults-for-2023.html

Vanessa Dempel, a graduate student in the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program, and Kimberly Wong, a doctoral student studying criminal justice, have been awarded Boren Fellowships.

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/boren-fellowships.html

Deep in West Texas on the border of Big Bend National Park, Texas State University will convene scientists and others interested in the environment and natural history of the Chihuahuan Desert ne...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/christmas-mountains-research-symposium.html

Donald Olson, Texas State University professor emeritus of physics, astronomer and Texas State University System Regents’ Professor, uses his celestial sleuthing to date Ansel Adams’ famous ...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/olson-pinpoints-date-and-time-of-ansel-adams-kings-canyon-photo.html

With a focus on technology-enhanced infrastructure, the program aims to prep grads for industry demands

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/inaugural-class-of-civil-engineering-majors.html

School districts across Texas face a demand to hire more state-credentialed teachers to teach popular advanced academic courses. Texas State University’s College of Education aims to help addre...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/college-of-education-teacher-credentialing-program.html

More than 4,100 candidates for bachelor’s, master’s, specialist and doctoral degrees are expected to cross the stage during eight commencement ceremonies May 11-13 at Texas State University.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/spring-commencement.html

At a Texas State University Run to R1  Town Hall this week, President Kelly Damphousse emphasized the strengths and opportunities of TXST’s pursuit of the R1 classification while underscoring...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/run-to-r1-townhall.html

Two Texas State University master's students and two recent graduates have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship B...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/fulbright-awards.html

TXST archaeology students get hands-on experience surveying ancient sites in Big Bend National Park

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/surveying-the-past.html

Texas State University Vice President for Research Shreek Mandayam has named Jennifer Speed the new assistant vice president for research development.

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/jennifer-speed-avp-for-research-development.html

Texas State University and Laredo College officials have announced a formal agreement to ease the transfer of students from Laredo to Texas State.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/laredo-college-transfer-agreement.html

Nine Texas State University programs have been named among the Best Graduate School Rankings for 2023-2024 by U.S. News and World Report.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/9-grad-programs-among-best-in-nation.html

Laboratory testing is the single highest-volume medical activity affecting Americans, and it drives about two-thirds of all medical decisions made by doctors and other health care professionals. ...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/medical-laboratory-professionals-in-training-advocate-for-the-impact-of-their-field.html

Aquatic Resources and Integrative Biology doctoral student Mar Moretta-Urdiales is the first-ever Texas State doctoral student to receive a Level 1 Grant from the National Geographic Society and ...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/doctoral-student-receives-nat-geo-grant.html

The Kyle Fire Department is calling on the expertise and innovation of Texas State University engineering professors in the construction of a state-of-the-art fire station in eastern Hays County.

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/tech-enhanced-kyle-fire-department.html

Bankrate named Round Rock, TX the best place to live in the U.S. for 2023.  

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/round-rock-named-best-place-to-live.html

NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) has awarded Texas State University a planning grant to further develop CaerusCrete, ...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/texas-state-lands-nasa-grant-to-develop-lunar-concrete-for-building-on-the-moon.html

The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University will host the 10th annual Earth Day San Marcos Festival 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, April 22, at Spring Lake, the headwater...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/earth-day-san-marcos-festival.html

The U.S. Department of Transportation has named Texas State University one of 34 University Transportation Centers (UTC) to enable the next generation of transportation professionals to make road...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/texas-state-named-university-transportation-center-by-us-department-of-transportation---

A new study from The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University shows Barton Creek and Onion Creek contribute significant flows to the Colorado River.  

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/new-research-highlights-importance-of-barton-springs-onion-creek-watersheds-to-colorado-river

Percival Everett’s novel, The Trees, has won the 2022 L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize. The $25,000 prize—one of the largest literary awards in the United States—recognizes exce...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/percival-everett-wins-2022-clark-fiction-prize-for-the-trees

As Texas comes out of its 13th driest year on record, water and managing the state’s finite water supply is a pressing concern. A new book authored by Robert E. Mace, executive director for The...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/meadows-center-executive-director-authors-groundwater-sustainability-book

A recent publication in the Journal of Educational Psychology highlights types of help-seeking and achievement within postsecondary student populations. Carlton Fong, an assistant professor in th...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/txst-study-examines-how-students-seek-academic-support-

After three years of the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 pandemic, the world has settled into the realization that ongoing vaccination for protection against this highly mutating virus is likely goin...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/covid-19-vaccine-boosters-are-critical-for-public-health.html

Salah Faroughi, assistant professor in the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University, has been awarded a grant by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and ...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/department-of-energy-grant-aims-to-unlock-future-carbon-management-research-education

Texas State University has announced a new initiative that will make approximately $900,000 in fellowships available to new incoming master’s students beginning in fall 2023 and for each of the...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/texas-state-announces-major-financial-aid-commitment-to-graduate-students

The National Science Foundation’s Biological Anthropology Program has awarded Texas State doctoral student Petra Banks a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG). It’s the fir...

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/txst-graduate-student-wins-NSF-funding-for-doctoral-research-into-blast-event-trauma

The books A Seed in the Sun, written and illustrated by Aida Salazar, and Tumble, written by Celia Pérez, are the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award recipients for works publ...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/perez-salazar-named-2023-tomas-rivera-childrens-book-award-winners

New research from an international team of scientists—including Mona Wells, director of climate science at The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University—finds sig...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/shortcomings-in-container-ship-industry-environmental-management.html

On April 1st, 2023, the College of Liberal Arts hosted the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award Gala. The DAAA award recognizes exceptional contributions of Texas State University Liberal Arts ...

https://news.txst.edu/alumni-impact/2023/liberal-arts-honors-3-distinguished-alums-for-contributions-to-literature-public-service-conservation

Texas State University has been ranked No. 32 on Best Accredited Colleges’ list of "Best Bachelor's Degrees in Advertising" for 2023.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/best-accredited-colleges-names-texas-states-advertising-degree-among-best-in-nation-

Henry Segerman, associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at Oklahoma State University, will present “Artistic Mathematics: Truth and Beauty” as part of the Mathematics and Statist...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/artistic-mathematics-truth-and-beauty-to-highlight-mathematics-and-statistics-awareness-month

Acclaimed author Fernando A. Flores will hold a reading and book signing Friday, April 14, at Texas State University’s Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center. The 7:30 p.m. event is free and o...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/acclaimed-author-fernando-flores-to-hold-reading-signing-in-kyle--

“One Pill Kills.” That’s the simple and direct message of the State of Texas’ campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. Gov. Greg Abbott launched th...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/one-pill-kills

The Texas State University Police Department has announced a partnership with Student Government to enhance safety on the San Marcos Campus with a new Student Safety Escort Program. Under the p...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/new-safety-escort-program-launches-for-txst-students

The Rev. Anthony Evans, president of the National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), will deliver the keynote address at the Association of Collaborative Communities Equipping Youth for STEEAAM Succ...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/nbci-president-rev-anthony-evans-to-deliver-keynote-address-at-texas-state-university

Texas State University Vice President for University Advancement Brooks Hull has named Sarah Sims the new associate vice president for donor engagement. Sims comes to Texas State from the Unive...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/university-advancement-names-sarah-sims-avp-for-donor-engagement

Texas State University placed first in the 2023 District 10 American Advertising Federation’s (AAF) National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC), which took place in Austin, Texas last week....

https://news.txst.edu/student-experience/2023/nsac-team-wins-first-at-district-10-advertising-competition.html

The San Marcos River provides a case study for Dr. Christina Lopez’s research on human-nature relationships and environmental stewardship

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/christina-lopez-environmental-stewardship.html

Electronic media professor Dr. Ali Forbes is writing a book about NBA 2K. This April, she will discuss contemporary issues in sports broadcasting and virtual platforms at the Broadcast Education ...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/ali-forbes-playing-for-a-level-court-in-esports.html

Texas State University’s Materials Application Research Center (MARC) — an initiative dedicated to enhancing TXST’s research enterprise — has announced more than $540,000 in funding to p...

https://news.txst.edu/research-and-innovation/2023/marc-instrumentation-grant.html

As a new class of graduates prepares to enter the post-pandemic workforce, Texas State University Music Education majors are in high demand across the state in elementary school classrooms and in...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/next-generation-of-music-educators.html

Hwa Young Lee, an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Texas State University, has been awarded the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program...

https://news.txst.edu/featured-faculty/2023/nsf-career-grant-graph-literacy-in-middle-school-students.html

Texas State University has announced BookSmart, an innovative new partnership with Follett ACCESS to reduce the cost of textbooks and course materials for undergraduate students beginning the fal...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/txst-to-launch-booksmart-to-reduce-student-expenses.html

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown will hold a reading and book signing Friday, March 24, at Texas State University’s Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center.

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/jericho-brown-to-hold-reading-in-kyle.html

exas State University’s Alyson Collins , an assistant professor, and Stephen Ciullo , an associate professor, both in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas State University, joi...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/big-ideas-podcast/episode-38.html

The nonprofit Stelos Alliance has made a $1 million gift commitment to Texas State University to support scholarships and programs ranging from student leadership training to the university maria...

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/stelos-alliance-gift.html

Texas State University has earned a STARS Silver rating in recognition of its sustainability achievements from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

https://news.txst.edu/inside-txst/2023/stars-silver-rating-for-sustainability.html