Arlene Garcia-Marquez was awarded a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture s National Institute of Food and Agriculture on Thursday, May 27, according to a news release from Texas Tech.
Garcia-Marquez, an assistant professor of Behavior and Welfare at the Tech School of Veterinary Medicine, project responds to the challenges between veterinarians and non-English speaking animal caretakers, according to the release.
Her project, Developing Spanish Communicative Competence among Veterinary and Animal Science Students to Improve U.S. Agriculture , will be joined by the Guy Lonergan, dean of SVM, Alexandra Calle, assistant professor at SVM, Amy Boren-Alpizar, associate professor from the Department of Agricultural Education & Communication and Jorge Zamora, association professor in the Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures, according to the release.
Texas Tech Hires More Founding Faculty Members
Newly hired professors include an animal welfare expert and a practicing veterinarian.
From left, Drs. Arlene Garcia-Marquez, Prasanth Chelikani, Clayton Cobb and Emily Sundman.
The next U.S. veterinary school, Texas Tech University, is rapidly adding faculty members as it prepares to begin instruction in August 2021.
The School of Veterinary Medicine, headquartered in Amarillo, anticipates an inaugural class of 60 students. About 30 faculty and staff members were hired as of September 2020.
Recent appointees include:
Arlene Garcia-Marquez, Ph.D., MS
The animal welfare expert is an assistant professor of behavior and welfare. She was a Texas Tech animal and food sciences faculty member for four years and previously served as an assistant professor of animal science at the University of Minnesota.