FACULTY AND STUDENT Accomplishments

• The Tarleton Chemical Society (student chemistry club) received Honorable Mention and a Green Chemistry Award from the American Chemical Society based on their 20212022 activities.

• The Tarleton Observatory hosted its annual Star Party with nearly 100 faculty, staff, students and community members participating in the event.

• Dr. Anne Egelston joins faculty from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Texas A&M AgriLife to work on two USDA grants. Both the Texas Climate Smart Initiative and the Climate resiliency for the farm and market development: Economically viable low-carbon work to enable farmers and ranchers to adapt existing practices to monetize climate benefits.

• Timberlake Biological Field Station hosted Mills County ISD 6th grade students for a field day experience in collaboration with Mills County Soil & Water Conservation District. The students received leadership activities from the Mullin FFA and hands-on science sessions offered by Tarleton Faculty and Staff.

• The chemistry faculty led by Dr. Arthur Low received a renewal of their Welch Foundation Departmental Grant which provides support for students with scholarships, lab equipment and chemicals as well as travel to industry meetings and conferences. This 3-year grant provides $45,000 per year ($135,000 total) to support undergraduate student research that is mentored by our dedicated team of faculty.

• Avery Campbell & Gavin McIntosh won 1st place undergrad poster at Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM TX-LA). Supraventricular Tachycardia Study Using a Dynamic Computer Generated Left Atrium

• Aeron Pennington earned the Sarah McIntire Award for undergraduate oral presentation of her work on “Modulation of Bacterial Host Phenotypes by Mycobacteriophage Pixie Gene Products” with Drs. Dustin Edwards and Harold Rathburn at the Texas Branch of the American Society for Microbiology hosted at Rice University on November 11, 2022. The project was partially supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute SEA-GENES program and by the Tarleton State University College of Science and Mathematics Undergraduate Student Research Award.

• Dr. Dustin Edwards was also recognized for the 2021 Millicent and Eugene Goldschmidt Faculty Education Award for contributions to the advancement of microbiology in Texas.

• Drs. Victoria Chraibi and Phil Sudman were awarded a $15,000 grant from the Texas Pioneer Foundation to support the FIELDS program at Timberlake Biological Field Station. The FIELDS program is designed to provide regular opportunities for hands-on experiences in STEM to the rural schools near the Field Station. The program will work closely with Tarleton faculty and staff to provide exceptional STEM experiences.