2023 Press Release Archive
December
- Regents’ professor among TXST faculty named in Stanford’s Top 2% Scientists list
- Hehmsoth garners 2024 ASCAP Plus Award for work as composer
- TXST students claim sweeping victory at the 2023 SWAAG Conference
- ‘Money’ magazine names Texas State’s health administration master’s program among best in U.S.
- Texas State researchers discover astonishingly low mutation rate in sharks
- TXST researchers implement innovative wastewater treatment strategies
- 7 TXST doctoral students receive Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award
- Government and nonprofit workers are getting billions in student loan debt canceled through a public service program
- 10 extinct trilobite species discovered by Texas State researcher in Thailand
- Service-learning students develop workshops for local youth, build wildlife garden at Roughhouse Brewing
- What does weight-inclusive health care mean? A dietitian explains what some providers are doing to end weight stigma
- Texas State prepares for fall 2023 commencement
- NASA researcher to discuss first two years of discovery with James Webb Space Telescope
- Texas State names Pranesh Aswath provost and vice president for academic affairs
November
- Texas State partners with Saleen, WSRCA to bring composite materials training to Round Rock Campus
- US food insecurity surveys aren’t getting accurate data regarding Latino families
- Dozens of US adolescents are dying from drug overdoses every month − an expert on substance use unpacks the grim numbers with 3 charts
- Texas State University's Teacher Residency Program receives reapproval from TEA for 2023-24
- Texas State lands USDA grant to promote welding for underrepresented populations
- Governor celebrates Texas State for university’s commitment to veterans
- What a biannual gathering of 1967 Impalas reveals about the blurry line between fandom and religion
- Texas State University selected to host 2024 Presidential Debate
- 2 Texas State faculty honored as TSUS Regents’ Professors for 2024
- TXST civil engineering graduate student awarded a federal transportation fellowship
- Hobson gift to support nursing scholarships at Texas State
- Intelligent.com recognizes Texas State as US leader in 11 categories for 2024
- ALERRT awarded $11 million to train first responders in active shooter scenarios
- James Webb telescope findings support long-proposed process of planet formation
- Federal grants boost regenerative agriculture initiatives at Texas State
- Texas State launches effort to reduce produce lost after harvest in Bangladesh
- A new ‘Hillviews’ magazine features student experiences and innovative research at TXST
- Texas State, Texas Book Festival to host 2023 Tomás Rivera Children’s Book Award winners
- OWLS 50th anniversary reception kicks off yearlong celebration
- Texas State welcomes Michael Preston as new associate vice president for Student Success
October
- Texas State celebrates publication of ‘LBJ’s America’ with panel discussion
- Texas State to host mental health panel discussion Nov. 2
- Mounted patrol to be introduced at Homecoming game, implemented during spring semester
- Texas State officer reflects on deployment to fire-ravaged Maui
- TXST Strengthens its corporate and foundation alliances
- Meadows Center, BlueTriton Brands renew partnership to tackle Texas water challenges
- Stelos Scholars student designs community garden to benefit Hays County Food Bank
- Texas School Safety Center receives grant to help public schools implement behavioral threat assessment programs
- Associate Dean of The Graduate College presents at the Association of Texas Graduate Schools
- Texas State University to host Homecoming Week events Oct. 22-28
- ‘Forbes’ names Texas State among “America’s Top Colleges” for 2023
- Texas State names Matthew Hall vice president for information technology
- Texas State announces inaugural President’s Leadership Class cohort
- Evacuation of Ukrainian academics from war zone topic of Polish guest lecture
- Criminal justice PhD candidate receives largest award by a graduate student in Texas State’s history
- TXST professor: Coming eclipses promise celestial spectacle
- Federal grant funds TXST studies on health impacts of traffic congestion, community walkability
- Texas State program aims to help healthcare organizations improve mental health outcomes
September
- Teaching Space of Tomorrow enhances virtual learning experience, gives back to community
- Translational Health Research Center names 2023-24 faculty fellows
- Texas State leaps 51 spots in U.S. News & World Report rankings for 2024
- Texas State researcher to study quantum properties of exotic materials under Department of Defense grant
- Career Services expands offerings in newly renovated space
- Texas State’s STAR Park names Harold Strong new executive director
- Texas State mental health officer, therapy dog, fly to Maui in support of fire victims
- Texas Veterans Commission awards Texas State gold recognition for third consecutive year
- Grow with Google program offers career certificates for TXST students in flourishing fields
- Meadows Center conference tackles the thorny topic of climate change and seeking resiliency
- Why ‘Barbie’ and ‘The Little Mermaid’ made 2023 the dead girl summer
- Entrepreneurs, beware: Owning your own business can make it harder to get hired later
- Texas State welcomes record freshman class for third consecutive year
- Texas State renaming building in honor of former president Denise Trauth and John Huffman
- A Return to Bobcat Football with David Bailiff
- PBS docuseries on animal adaptation features TXST professor
August
- Sharon Ugalde named inaugural University Humanities Research Excellence Award recipient
- Crankstart grant encourages former students to return to college, complete degrees
- Texas State research indicates veterans’ health outcomes have not improved despite years of effort
- Princeton Review names Texas State among ‘Best Colleges’ for 2024
- BOBCATshadow program connects TXST students with employers
- ACCEYSS program poised to expand into national consortium following NSF grant
- 21st annual Black and Latino Playwrights Celebration to host tribute to Carlos Morton
- Texas State’s Sigma Delta Pi earns national award
- Texas State’s Ionut Popescu awarded with Heritage Foundation prize
- Students take the lead in new exhibit at TXST’s Wittliff Collections
- Texas State researchers produce advanced material with tunable periodic electrical potential
- TXST study of collegiate athletes’ grades IDs success factors for students who juggle multiple roles
- 5 from Texas State honored with TSUS Regents' Awards for 2024
- Texas State to host visiting Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence from Bangladesh
- Money magazine names Texas State among best value universities in U.S.
July
- Black Student Athlete Summit has powerful impact on Texas State attendees
- Texas State prepares for summer 2023 commencement
- Texas State to lead effort to recruit non-traditional audiences to agricultural careers
- Texas State named among top institutions for social impact for fifth consecutive year
- Say What! hosts 2023 Texas Tobacco-Free Conference for Texas youth
- Texas State study: Policymakers should consider animal welfare in decisions
- CASE honors Texas State with two Gold Circle of Excellence Awards for 2023
- The ‘Today’ show names Round Rock, home of a TXST campus, the country’s best place to live
- Future Maker Studios, Texas State launch first Future Maker Accelerator at Alkek One
- TXST Round Rock Campus sponsors Chamber of Commerce legislative session review
- Texas State researchers look to prepare next generation of physicists to consider ethics, society
- Texas State to prepare Hispanic populations for agricultural science careers through USDA program
- Texas State names Yatin Karpe assistant vice president for innovation and commercialization
- Associate professor evaluates PTSD assessment tools in U.S. prison system
- University Statement On 2018 Iconic Village Apartment Fire
June
- Now that President Biden’s student loan cancellation program has been canceled, here’s what’s next
- Ringworm fungal infections are common in the US and are becoming increasingly resistant to treatment – 6 questions answered
- Texas State study to focus on understanding math participation in bilingual classrooms
- Texas State University’s College of Education partners with Round Rock ISD and Austin Community College District to address Texas’ teacher workforce shortage
- Abound names Texas State among ‘Best Graduate Schools’ for 2023
- Meadows Center to host “The Good, the Bad and the Wicked” climate science conference
- Wittliff Collections mourns passing of literary giant Cormac McCarthy
- Texas State University names Todd Jensen Associate Vice President for Development
- Texas State named “Voter Friendly Campus” for second consecutive cycle
- Texas State and San Marcos to celebrate Juneteenth events
- UNITE and Texas State University announce a partnership designed to strengthen and maximize industry relationships
- Detective Sandra Spriegel joins UPD to expand victims services, support
- Texas State team named national runner-up in advertising competition
- Small Producers Initiative to host regenerative agriculture workshop
- For TXST students and alums, the Texas Water Safari canoe race provides a worthy challenge and a welcoming community
- Multimedia student project captures voices of Uvalde victims’ families
- Commitment to Civic Engagement, Democracy, Earns Bobcat a National Fellowship
- TXST aquatic ecologist highlights the resilience of fish during severe drought
May
- USDA boosts standardized welding training using audio-assisted training machines with Texas State grant
- Texas State names inaugural vice president for TXST Global
- Texas State study aims to improve math outcomes at college level
- 11 Texas State graduate students awarded P.E.O. International Peace Scholarships
- Texas State ranked in top 6.3% of universities worldwide by CWUR
- Craft breweries are fermenting change, addressing local ills while serving local ales
- The Faculty Innovation Accelerator Program aims to propel TXST research innovations to the marketplace
- Miriam F. Williams honored with Ken Rainey Award for Distinguished Research
- Texas State hosts annual Southern Family Farmers & Food Systems Conference
- Texas State named among ‘Best Colleges for Adults’ for 2023 by Abound
- Two Texas State students awarded prestigious Boren Fellowships
- Texas State scientists head to the West Texas desert for Christmas Mountains Research Symposium
- ‘Celestial Sleuth’ pinpoints date, time of Ansel Adams’ Kings Canyon photo
- Texas State’s inaugural class of civil engineering majors readies for graduation and the job market
- Texas State prepares for spring 2023 commencement
- The real priest behind ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’ was a fan of Hollywood horror films
- University Advancement names Steven Jass alumni relations coordinator
- At Run to R1 Town Hall, Texas State looks to a future driven by a growth in research enterprise and expanded resources
- Surveying the Past
- Three Texas State students, two recent graduates receive Fulbright awards
- College of Education meets teacher credentialing needs with new online program
- Big Ideas TXST - Episode 39: Sustainability with Emma Parsley
April
- Emphasizing the ‘Why’ of Coursework
- Texas State names Jennifer Speed AVP for research development
- Willie Nelson at 90: Country music’s elder statesman still on the road again
- New Texas State, Laredo College transfer agreement to facilitate automatic admission
- U.S. News lists 9 Texas State graduate programs among best in nation for 2023-24
- Medical laboratory professionals in-training advocate for the impact of their field
- TXST engineers team with Kyle Fire Department to deploy tech-enhanced infrastructure in a new fire station
- Doctoral student receives National Geographic Society grant to study frog fungus in the Ecuadorian forest
- Round Rock, home to TXST campus, named best place to live
- Texas State lands NASA grant to develop lunar concrete for building on the moon
- Meadows Center gears up for 10th annual Earth Day San Marcos festival at Spring Lake on April 22
- Texas State’s NSAC Team Wins First at District 10 Advertising Competition
- Small businesses across Texas are invited to the inaugural GRIT Awards Showcase April 25
- University Advancement names Sarah Sims AVP for donor engagement
- NBCI President Rev. Anthony Evans to deliver keynote address at Texas State University
- Texas State’s Fajardo-Anstine awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction
- One Pill Kills
- New safety escort program launches for TXST students
- Acclaimed author Fernando A. Flores to hold reading, signing in Kyle
- Tubing destination, sacred natural resource — or both?
- Best Accredited Colleges names Texas State’s advertising degree among best in nation
- Liberal Arts honors 3 distinguished alums for contributions to literature public service conservation
- Playing for a level court in esports
- Artistic Mathematics: Truth and Beauty to highlight Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month
March
- New research identifies shortcomings in container ship industry’s environmental management and response to shipping disasters
- TXST School of Music Tunes up the Next Generation of Music Educators
- MARC Instrumentation Grants fuel expanded research across TXST
- Pérez, Salazar named 2023 Tomás Rivera Children’s Book Award winners
- TXST graduate student wins NSF funding for doctoral research into blast event trauma
- Texas State Phi Kappa Phi breaks record with 5 doctoral students landing competitive awards
- Texas State announces major financial aid commitment to graduate students
- The Hector And Gloria López Foundation Awards $1.79 Million Grant Benefitting Texas State University First-Generation Latino Students
- Department of Energy grant aims to unlock future carbon management research, education at Texas State
- Texas State to launch BookSmart @ TXST for fall 2023 to reduce student expenses
- NSF CAREER grant seeks to improve graph literacy in middle school students
- Meadows Center executive director authors groundwater sustainability book
- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Jericho Brown, to hold reading, signing in Kyle
- Silicon Valley Bank biggest US lender to fail since 2008 financial crisis – a finance expert explains the impact
- TXST study examines how students seek academic support
- COVID-19 vaccine boosters are critical for public health, TXST virologist and molecular epidemiologist reiterates
- Percival Everett wins 2022 Clark Fiction Prize for The Trees
- New research highlights importance of Barton Springs, Onion Creek watersheds to Colorado River
- 2023 Innovation Lab to showcase student-led research during SXSW
- Texas State, Indigenous Cultures Institute agree to explore Cultural Center possibilities
- Winter storm impact on vulnerable Texas communities is the subject of a TXST and NSF collaboration
- University Police Department recognizes outstanding contributions to public safety at TXST
- Stelos Alliance gift to benefit scholarships, student leadership training at Texas State
- Our COVID Experience: Day of Reflection comes to Texas State
- Texas State earns STARS Silver rating for sustainability achievements
- Translational Health Research Center awarded $1 million to develop mental health training program
- Texas State named University Transportation Center by U.S. Department of Transportation
February
- Family Time: Associate professor brings creativity and computers together
- The Great Texas River Cleanup expands TXST students’ perspectives on community and careers
- TXST announces new postsecondary education program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities
- TXST Health Scholar Showcase features interdisciplinary health researchers, keynote speaker Dr. Jennifer Sharpe Potter
- TSUS honors 2 Texas State faculty as Regents' Teachers for 2023
- TXST honors the First Five, living legends of civil rights at the university
- Focused and Fearless: Remembering Shirley Harris, TXST’s first Black graduate
- Research identifies obstacles to construction industry’s embrace of “Internet of Things”
- Texas State alumnus and recording artist Randy Rogers makes gift to support Texas Music History
- Award-winning musician shares braille music abroad
- How do blood tests work? Medical laboratory scientists explain the pathway from blood draw to diagnosis and treatment
- Texas State’s Hiro Lee Tanaka named 2023 Sloan Research Fellow in mathematics
- For college athletes, success hinges on balancing demands of sports, academics
- Students give back through expanded tutoring program for K-12 students
- Study shows mortality for recently pregnant women increased during the pandemic
- SASSY MAMAS at The Wittliff celebrate famed Texas playwright
- Meadows Center awarded $2.5 million for climate change research to protect Texas water
- Texas State physical therapy students serve patients in Costa Rica on study abroad trip
- Adults judge children who tell blunt polite truths more harshly than they do liars
- Hollywood’s Black male teacher stereotypes examined by TXST assistant professor
- Acclaimed author, poet Jane Wong to hold reading, signing
- Associate professor studies links between Mexican revolution, modernist literature
- Concrete industry management students compete in Las Vegas
- Miranda Wait discusses Spring Lake adventure with Big Ideas TXST
- Texas State nursing students complete 10-day service-learning trip to Panama
- Texas State celebrates 60 years of desegregation with series of events
- U.S. News lists 2 Texas State online programs among best in nation for 2023
- Improving the American agriculture supply chain through TXST research
- Why the Fed raised interest rates by the smallest amount since it began its epic inflation fight
- Associate professor probes ways to improve remote worker work-family balance
January
- Largest cohort of Texas State University students and alumni selected as semifinalists for 2023-2024 Fulbright U.S. Student Program
- Department of Justice grant allows Operation ID to expand mission identifying human remains
- Observing Data Privacy Day through cybersecurity awareness
- Texas State awarded $1 million federal funding for STEM-For-All Partnership and Research Initiative
- Study shows folate, vitamins B6, B12 may help prevent metabolic syndrome
- Two Bobcats named among the nation’s top fifty multicultural advertising students
- Intelligent.com recognizes Texas State as U.S. leader in 5 categories for 2023
- Seven Texas small businesses earn awards for resiliency during pandemic
- Texas State hosts 39th annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Day celebrations
- Texas State alumnus wins national distinguished honor society award
- David Butler named Lifetime Achievement Honoree by American Association of Geographers
- Texas State hosts 33rd annual hostage negotiation competition
- President Emeritus Trauth awarded honorary doctorate from Mount St. Joseph University
- Wittliff Collections acquires newly revealed Cormac McCarthy audio interviews
- Meadows Center constructing new glass-bottom boat dock at Spring Lake
- Communication Studies’ Elizabeth Eger honored with three national awards
- Farzan Irani discusses myths, stereotypes of stuttering with Big Ideas TXST