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TSU Day at the Capitol Lauded as a Success |
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Tiger Nation hit the road early Tuesday morning for TSU Day at the Capitol.
Three bus loads of students, faculty, staff, and alumni went to Austin with one mission: advocating for TSU's $1 billion Legislative Appropriations Request (LAR).
The University received resolutions in the House and the Senate, the Ocean of Soul performed in the open air rotunda, and the TSU delegation spoke with legislators and their staffs face to face.
View all the photos from TSU Day at the Capitol here.
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Women's History Month Convocation |
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Texas Southern University continued its celebration of Women's History Month this week with the annual Women's History Month Convocation. The convocation maintained the national Women's History Month theme: "Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories."
The guest speaker was TSU alumna and Houston City Councilmember Dr. Carolyn Evans-Shabazz. During her speech, Dr. Evans-Shabazz encouraged women to find their purpose, find their place, and find their stride while unabashedly telling their stories with truth and integrity.
Click here to watch the entire convocation.
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Tiger Ball Returns April 29 |
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Join the celebration with the TSU Foundation Board of Trustees, Board of Regents, and President Lesia L. Crumpton-Young on Saturday, April 29, 2023 at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
The Tiger Ball is the largest single fundraiser to support scholarships and transformation at TSU.
Sponsorship opportunities remain available. There is also a limited number of $3,000 tables that remains available.
For a recap of the inaugural President's Tiger Ball, click here.
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Texas Southern University Selected for Participation in National Chemical Biology Consortium |
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Texas Southern University has been selected to participate in the Chemical Biology Consortium (CBC), the discovery engine of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Experimental Therapeutics (NExT) Program, administered through the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR), a federal national laboratory sponsored by the NCI, part of the National Institutes of Health, and currently operated by Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc.
For the next five years (2022-2027), TSU will participate in the CBC, which conducts oncology drug discovery in the NExT Program. Dr. Huan Xie, Principal Investigator, a Professor of Pharmaceutics at TSU and Director of the Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, leads a team of TSU faculty for this highly competitive, comprehensive, and nationally renowned research engagement. A one-of-a-kind Institute of Drug Discovery and Development (iD3) is built to provide unique, highly translational, and specialized research services to accelerate novel drug discovery and development. The vision of iD3 is to grow to be an independent self-sufficient research entity leading TSU from an R2 Research University to an R1 Research University further increasing cutting-edge research and opportunities at TSU.
Read the full story here.
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Students Get Experiential Learning Opportunity in Marketing Course |
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The Marketing 307 course in the Jesse H. Jones School of Business hosted a professional development day with 23 business leaders on March 7. The event was designed to prepare students for their next phase of life after graduation – interviewing.
This year, the students had to complete three interviews. The first was a virtual video interview; the second phase was a one-on-one interview, and lastly a panel interview. The interview styles are the various stages new applicants will encounter in hiring and onboarding process with most employers today. For some students, this was their first-time interviewing in one of the settings.
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"TSU in the News" snapshot: |
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U.S. Department of Transportation gives $2.8 million for TSU transportation centers (March 6) |
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Dr. Michael Adams quoted in "Bettencourt, Cain, and Schofield seek to abolish Harris County Election Administrator’s Office" (March 8)
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TSU EMPA program ranked among best in the nation (March 7) |
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Texas Southern takes down top-seeded Alcorn State in SWAC Tournament (March 9) |
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Community Wellness Pop-Up Clinic Now Open |
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Our vaccination clinic has transitioned to a wellness clinic! In addition to vaccinations, you may also receive blood pressure screenings, blood glucose tests, and medication therapy management. The campus community wellness clinic is open to our campus and the public each Thursday from 12-2pm in the Nabrit Science Building, first floor Room 152. Follow the signs! |
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TSU Graduate Putting Political Science Degree to Work in his First Legislative Session |
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TSU alumnus Anthony Collier is working his first legislative session as General Counsel for Texas senator John Whitmire and the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice. Collier graduated from the School of Public Affairs in 2018 with a degree in political science.
After graduation, he completed a yearlong program as a Rotary International Global Scholar studying law and economics at Cairo University in Egypt. Upon completing the program, he attended the University of Texas School of Law. He graduated in May 2022 and began working for Senator Whitmire shortly thereafter.
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TSU Opens SWAC Basketball Tournament with Win over Top-seed Alcorn State |
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Texas Southern's SWAC Tournament first round winning streak will continue as the Tigers defeated top-seeded Alcorn State 66-62 in its tourney opener Wednesday night inside Bartow Arena.
TSU, which hasn't lost a SWAC Tournament opener since 2008, entered as its lowest seed since 2008 and drew SWAC Regular Season Co-Champion Alcorn State in the tourney for the third straight year.
TSU is back in action on Friday at 2 p.m. against #4 Southern or #5 Alabama A&M.
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Tigers Win Slugfest At Texas A&M-Corpus Christi |
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Four Texas Southern
University baseball
players combined for 13 hits, including a 4-5
performance from
Gabriel Vasquez, as
the Tigers won a
slugfest over Texas
A&M-Corpus Christi
14-13 Wednesday.
This was TSU's first
victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi since 2006. Click here for a full recap.
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