2024 Press Release Archive
May
- Project Second Step looks to enhance implementation of social-emotional learning curriculum in rural school districts
- Abound names Texas State among nation’s best colleges in three categories for 2024
- TXST announces Fulbright U.S. Student Awards for 2024-2025
- Texas State to host kick-off celebration for National Nurses Week
- TXST anthropology doctoral student receives P.E.O. Scholar Award
April
- Texas State prepares for spring 2024 commencement
- Wittliff Collections acquires complete archive of writer Benjamín Alire Sáenz
- TXST alum Pablo Mejia awarded Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship toward MFA in film
- USBR grant funds research into photobiological process to improve desalination
- TXST researchers examine relationship between bone structure and body mass index
- TXST convenes West Texas scientists and the public for the Christmas Mountains Research Symposium
- Texas State, Austin Community College launch ambitious ‘Bats to Cats’ guaranteed transfer program
- TXST’s Career Services opens professional headshot photo booth for students, staff, faculty, and alumni
- SETI researcher Chenoa Tremblay to deliver ‘Math In Space’ keynote
- Student talent propels The Wittliff Collections’ launch of new coyote logo
- Festival to showcase fun, relevance of math in daily life
- TXST jazz pianist Hank Hehmsoth releases his 5th album, ‘Blu-Escape’
- TXST’s Dutton to lead investigation into Matagorda Bay mercury exposure
- ‘U.S. News’ lists 9 Texas State graduate programs among best in nation for 2024
- NSF's James Moore III engages TXST in STEM research funding strategies
- McCoy College's Center for Professional Sales awarded Best Sales Program by USCA
- TXST doctoral students receive Phi Kappa Phi dissertation fellowships, graduate research grants
- Texas State partners with Texas Attorney General’s Office to tackle cold cases
- Estate gift benefits sociology scholarships for undergraduate, graduate students
- Wittliff Collections acquires complete archive of writer Benjamín Alire Sáenz
March
- Texas State to host 15th annual Graduate Student Research Conference
- TXST sets all-time record with $141 million in research spending, fueled by Run to R1 efforts
- Researchers seek community involvement in groundwater, surface water interaction study of Blanco County’s Cypress Creek
- TXST Provost Pranesh Aswath inducted into 2024 AIMBE College of Fellows
- TSUS, Indeed launch partnership to help students and alumni advance their careers
- TXST alum lands role in Marvel’s ‘Echo,’ Speaks to students at Q&A
- NIH-funded study investigates cardiovascular benefits of volunteering
- Twin brothers, TXST alums, compete on CBS' "The Amazing Race"
- TXST Innovation Lab to showcase research projects at SXSW festival
- TXST’s Debbie Thorne named to American Council on Education Fellows Program
- TXST professors create Family Business Research Productivity Ranking
February
- 3 from Texas State honored as 2023 TSUS Regents' Teachers
- Engineering student wins CEIA Student Achievement Award
- Texas springs in crisis: New study highlights overwhelming increase in dry springs
- Seven Texas State students named Fulbright semi-finalists
- Texas State civil engineering students to compete at national competition in Vancouver
- Jim and Ann Nell Gann named TXST Heroes following $1 million gift
- TXST graduate students collaborate for NASA mission to the International Space Station
- Engineering students attend leadership summit, secure summer internships with Cargill
- Texas State receives gift of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Stetson hat
- Texas State sets multiple enrollment records for spring 2024
- U.S. News lists 3 Texas State online programs among best in nation for 2024
- TXST Round Rock Campus named ‘business of the year’ by Chamber of Commerce
- Texas State names Kristi Troxel executive director of alumni engagement
- TEDx speakers to explore theme of ‘resolve’ at Texas State
- Celebrating TXST graduate student-athletes for Women in Sports Day
- AVP for Student Success Dr. Emilio Carranco retires after 32 years at Texas State
- Texas State begins Narcan distribution program at San Marcos, Round Rock Campuses
January
- Texas State University System Public Art Program commissions four new artists
- Texas State’s IDEA Center receives 2024 Program of Promise Award
- Physics department introduces “Space Lab” to Texas State community
- TXST professor studies climate resiliency in Southeast Asian nations
- TXST study shows benefits of letting children help out and pitch in
- Coach Carter director, distinguished alum Thomas Carter returns to his home court for alumni series Q&A
- Texas State researchers to study prescription drug misuse among adolescents, young adults
- Texas State recognized for commitment to first-generation student success
- Texas State hosts 34th annual hostage negotiation competition, seminar
- Texas State’s CIEDAR announces partnership with Digital Twin Consortium
- Two TXST students honored with P.E.O. Scholar Award
- TXST Faculty, Students Test Quality of Workplace Products for the Texas Workforce Commission
- TXST Round Rock Campus named ‘business of the year’ by Chamber of Commerce