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August 14, 2025

From Backpacks to White Coats: TTUHSC School of Medicine Invests in Tomorrow’s Healers Today

As part of its partnership with JAMP, the TTUHSC School of Medicine Admissions Office recently partnered with Alderson Elementary School in the Lubbock Independent School District to provide critical school supplies.

tags: Lubbock, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

July 31, 2025

Legislative Support Strengthens Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center’s Efforts to Improve Rural Cancer Care

Support for TTUHSC continued in the 89th legislative session, including $25 million to establish the Rural Cancer Collaborative.

tags: Lubbock, Statline, Stories

July 25, 2025

TTUHSC’s Affordable Medical Education Empowers West Texas Students to Serve

On Friday, July 25, students marked a defining moment in their journey at the White Coat Ceremony, symbolizing not only the start of their medical education but also their dedication to the communities that shaped them.

tags: Lubbock, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories, Students

July 17, 2025

Logsdon Receives Grant to Study Vascular Side of Traumatic Brain Injuries

Supported by a three-year, $578,211 grant from the National Institutes of Health-National Institute on Aging, Aric F. Logsdon, Ph.D., will study how brain endothelial cells, or blood vessels within the brain, handle the stressors of neuroinflammation.

tags: Lubbock, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories

July 11, 2025

Improving Health Care Access, Education Through Research

The service area for TTUHSC, a recognized leader in academic health and biomedical research training, encompasses 121 Texas counties.

tags: Abilene, Amarillo, F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health, Garrison Institute on Aging, Lubbock, Research, School of Population and Public Health, Statline, Stories

June 30, 2025

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Earns SACSCOC Recognition

TTUHSC has received a clean bill of health from the regional accrediting body, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), following a Fifth-Year Interim Review by a committee from peer institutions.

tags: Abilene, Amarillo, Dallas, Education, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Lubbock, Permian Basin, School of Health Professions, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, School of Population and Public Health, Statline, Stories

June 23, 2025

Concert, Art Exhibit Celebrate End of Two-Week Arts Program for Individuals with Aphasia

Families, friends and members of the Lubbock community showed their support for the arts and those with aphasia at a June 12 concert and art exhibit marking the end of a two-week arts camp.

tags: Lubbock, School of Health Professions, Statline, Stories

May 16, 2025

Willed Body Memorial Service Honors Those Who Donated

On Memorial Day each May, a service is conducted at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Institute of Anatomical Sciences to pay respect to the Willed Body Program donors and their families.

tags: Education, Lubbock, Statline, Stories

April 29, 2025

Santos Named Department of Surgery Chair for TTUHSC School of Medicine in Lubbock

As the new Department of Surgery chair for the School of Medicine in Lubbock, Ariel Santos, M.D., M.P.H., seeks to elevate TTUHSC’s role as the Hub of Surgery for West Texas.

tags: Education, Lubbock, School of Medicine, Statline, Stories