Texas Tech University

The move is the latest step toward opening the School of Veterinary Medicine in Amarillo in 2021.

Vinicius Machado will examine the underlying factors associated with metritis, a bacterial infection that affects dairy cattle leading to reduced milk production and infertility.

Startup funds were appropriated and legislative authority was provided in the biennial state budget signed into law by Gov. Abbott on Saturday.

Jerry Hodge’s gift supports the establishment of Texas’ first new veterinary school in more than a century.

The organization was recognized for its generous philanthropic contribution to the future School of Veterinary Medicine.

Regents approved establishing the new school and degree plan, as well as funding for preliminary designs for the school.

Dale R. Woerner, a meat science researcher who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Texas Tech, will start this fall as the Cargill Endowed Professorship in Meat Science Sustainability

William F. “Bill” Brown, a researcher and administrator at the University of Tennessee, has been named the new dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources (CASNR) at Texas Tech University.