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| Alumni and Friends,
As we continue in the spring semester, I am proud of how our Human Sciences family continues to actively make a difference in so many different ways. Across the board, our alumni, faculty, staff, and students have shown resiliency and are making positive changes despite the challenges we’ve faced.
I encourage you to take a moment to see how our community is advancing their fields and making a difference where it matters. Truly heroic efforts were made by our faculty, staff, and students to continue to help improve and enhance the human condition.
See how our alumni are making a lasting impact in the lives of students in recovery. Discover how our graduate students are researching the latest trends in hospitality and retail management. Our Personal Financial Planning students once again claimed first place in the 2020 Financial Planning Challenge. In this issue, you will also read more about the legacy of Nancy Bell, a former Human Development and Family Sciences faculty member.
I hope you all will share your latest news and updates. We look forward to hearing about your accomplishments and celebrations.
Finally, we are so thankful for all the support we receive. Our alumni and supporters make such a difference in how we can in turn help change lives. Always remember, you have a family here in the College of Human Sciences.
Go Tech!
Tim Dodd, Ph.D.
Dean
Associate Dean for Administration and Finance
James C. and Kailee M. Young Regents Professor
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|  | Charles Schwab Foundation Establishes Scholarship in Personal Financial Planning
Ensuring greater diversity and inclusion has been one of Texas Tech University's major priorities over the last several years, and now, a $500,000 gift from the Charles Schwab Foundation is helping to advance that goal. Texas Tech is one of seven university partners receiving a share of $3.5 million.
| |  | Faculty Equity Advocates Appointed in Human Sciences
Texas Tech University was awarded the NSF ADVANCE program, designed to foster gender, race, ethnicity, sexual identity, employment status, and disability by focused college efforts. Under the dean's direction, the College of Human Sciences selected associate professors Kristy Soloski, Ph.D., LMFT-A and Julie Change, Ph.D. for this role.
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|  | Undergraduate and Graduate Design Students Selected for Metropolis Future 100
Senior Interior Design major, Chinne Okoronkwo, and Environmental Design master's student, Kalie Brettmann, were both selected for Metropolis Future 100. Each year Metropolis recognizes the top 100 graduating students from architecture and interior design programs in the United States and Canada and connects them with design firms across North America.
| |  | Founding Member of University of Calgary Veterinary Program to Hold Joint Appointment Between Nutritional Sciences and Texas Tech School of Veterinary Medicine
Prasanth Chelikani is an expert in production animal physiology and obesity. Chelikani, who holds a dual appointment with the Department of Nutritional Sciences within the College of Human Sciences, feels his focus on animal physiology and obesity fits well with the school's One Health focus.
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|  | D'Aniello Receives Funding For Development & Implementation of A Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Caregivers of Young Adults with Substance Use Disorders
The project is to develop and pilot test the feasibility of an adaptation of the empirically supported caregiver therapy group called PRISM (Promoting Resilience in Self-Management). The aim of this project is to improve mental health, strengthen parental relationships with adult children, and reduce burden for the caregivers of young adults with substance use disorders (SUDs).
| |  | HDFS Associate Chair Assists in Creation and Implementation of Mental Health Programs for Lubbock Community and Law Enforcement
In recent years, the stigma surrounding mental health has started to decline, creating more available mental health resources accessible to the public. With this increase in resources has also come more open conversation among health professionals and researchers about best practices in the utilization of these services for both individuals and communities, including implementation.
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|  | Texas Tech Wins 2020 Financial Planning Challenge
For only the second time in its history, a three-person team from Texas Tech University's Department of Personal Financial Planning has come out on top in the 2020 Financial Planning Challenge, part of the annual conference of the Financial Planning Association® (FPA). Team members A.J. Bunn, McKenzie Arrott and Rob Tuckfield earned a $10,000 scholarship for the university.
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|  | College of Human Sciences and H-E-B Combine: Opening the Newest Lubbock Store Location
With a longstanding relationship, H-E-B and Texas Tech are no strangers to teaming up on hospitality projects. In fact, many graduates of the Hospitality and Retail Management (HRM) department go on to work for the large retail chain. Years ago, the H-E-B Culinary Lab was created for HRM students to access during their undergraduate and graduate studies. Over the past few months, H-E-B has returned to open the new Lubbock store location—this time with a pit stop in the College of Human Sciences.
| |  | FCSE Faculty Appointed to Family, Career and Community Leaders of America National Board of Directors
Family and Consumer Sciences Education (FCSE) program chair Karen Alexander, Ph.D., recently started her term as Chair of the National Board of Directors for the Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA). In total, Alexander has served on the FCCLA Board of Directors for six years, with one year remaining after her term as chair ends in July 2021. Once her role as chair ends, she will serve as past chair, advising the newly elected FCCLA chair.
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 College of Human Sciences December 2020 Banner Bearer
The College of Human Sciences (COHS) selected Human Sciences major, Cynthia Okeke as the Banner Bearer for December 2020. Okeke graduated with minors in Chemistry and Biology and is an Honors Student.
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| |  | Family and Consumer Sciences Education Faculty to be Featured on the Sportsman Channel
Kyle L. Roberson, an Army veteran, will be featured on season three of Army Buck Hunters – Force on Force. Army Buck Hunters features veterans from all armed service branches and brings them together in friendly competition to test their marksmanship skills.
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|  | Making a Lasting Impact: Larry Vanderwoude
A personal connection to students in recovery made the decision to give back that much easier, offering students a leg up in their academic and recovery journey.
Former business owner and DWI Intervention program educator Larry Vanderwoude is passionate about giving back to others in recovery. He and his wife Paula established two endowments in the Center for Collegiate Recovery Communities (CRC) at Texas Tech, a decision they didn't hesitate to make.
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Fourth-year students in the Interior Design 4606: Collaboration Studio course were invited to work with Lubbock architecture, engineering, and design firm, Parkhill, to create a real-world design for a local community church. Last semester, the group toured other church facilities to gather inspiration for their design presentations. Final designs were presented at the beginning of December.
| |  | Two Fellows Named to Texas Tech Faculty Success Initiative
Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo and Raegan Higgins will work on issues of faculty success with a particular focus on diversity, equity, inclusion and the support and engagement of faculty of color. The goal is for all faculty to then be successful in their endeavors. As the initiative progresses, he hopes the program's success will have an impact well beyond faculty.
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 Student Testimonial: Research Opportunities for Hospitality and Retail Management Graduate Students
Inspired by the ongoing research in the Department of Hospitality and Retail Management at Texas Tech, Daniella Recalde joined the department's Hospitality, Tourism, and Retail Management doctoral degree program in 2020. Recalde focuses on retailer resiliency through a research lens.
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| |  | Study Highlights Specific Neurons Responsible for Type 2 Diabetes Development
Illness is almost never all in your head, but new research from Texas Tech University's Department of Nutritional Sciences suggests a specific group of neurons in the brain may play a crucial role in the development of Type 2 diabetes. Andrew Shin hopes his research will lead to effective treatments for diabetes and obesity.
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In June 2020, a team of researchers including Julie Chang, an associate professor in Hospitality and Retail Management, was awarded the USDA Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grant. Dr. Julie Chang’s collaboration across three universities will spark technological developments for future textile, apparel, and retail students.
| |  | 4 Financial Therapists on How to Plan for a Less Anxious 2021
NextAdvisor with Time - It's been a busy year for financial therapists. We asked four financial therapists what their biggest takeaways from 2020 were, and how you can adjust your money mindset going into 2021.
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 Student Testimonial: Research Opportunities for Couple, Marriage, and Family Therapy Graduate Students
Alex Theobald, LMFT-Associate, worked as a clinician before joining the Couple, Marriage, and Family Therapy (CMFT) program at Texas Tech. By joining the graduate program, Theobald's former experience as a clinician strengthens his research goals to help patients heal.
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| |  | 2020 in Review: Human Sciences Top Twenty
We've compiled the top 20 posts from the College of Human Sciences in 2020. Our top 2020 stories featured alumni, students, faculty and staff, and more. See what our most clicked posts were below.
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 In Memoriam: Nancy J. Bell, Human Development and Family Sciences Colleague
The College of Human Sciences is deeply saddened by the loss of Nancy J. Bell, a professor in Human Development and Family Sciences (HDFS), who died on Dec. 1, 2020 at the age of 79.
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| |  | Student Testimonial: Research Opportunities for Design Graduate Students
Redha Gheraba, who recently graduated from Texas Tech with a Ph.D. in Environmental Design, joined the program with his research focus set on virtual reality in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. Virtual reality meets interior design and architecture in Gheraba’s research.
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