Texas State economic impact on state pegged at almost $1 billion
March 21, 2008
Texas State University-San Marcos has a statewide economic impact of almost $1 billion annually, according to an economic impact study released recently by the university.

Texas State participating in "Town & Gown" public forum
September 18, 2007
The San Marcos Area League of Women Voters will sponsor a “Town & Gown” public forum Monday, Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. in the San Marcos Activity Center.

Texas State, Hays County 911 service disabled
September 18, 2007
A fiber optic line has been cut, eliminating 911 services to Texas State University, San Marcos and portions of Hays County.

Texas State sets new fall enrollment record
September 17, 2007
Texas State University-San Marcos has experienced another record-setting year in terms of enrollment. Michael Heintze, Texas State’s associate vice president for enrollment management and marketing, reported that Texas State’s 12^th class day enrollment reached 28,132, compared to the previous record of 27,485 set last fall.

Bobcat student-athletes find support from Athletic Academic Center
September 17, 2007
The Athletic Academic Center (AAC) and its many programs offer tutorial services for upper-division and lower-division courses in mathematics, sciences, social sciences and study skills enhancement. The AAC also teams with other support groups on campus such as the Student Learning Assistance Center (SLAC) and the Writing Center.

Education honor society earns Chapter of Excellence award
September 17, 2007
Texas State University-San Marcos honor society Kappa Delta Pi will receive the Achieving Chapter of Excellence Award Nov. 1 at the 46^th Biennial Convocation in Louisville Ky. 

Writing center offers in-class essay test workshop
September 14, 2007
The idea of having to write an essay test can cause palms to sweat and heart rates to skyrocket. For many students, the mere sight of a bluebook can induce an overwhelming sense of panic.

School of Music events for September
September 13, 2007
The Texas State University-San Marcos School of Music presents a diverse calendar of events for September. Unless noted otherwise, all venues are located on the Texas State campus. For additional information on any of the events, please contact Cindy Dean at (512) 245-2651.

Texas State launches self-study of athletics program
September 13, 2007
President Denise M. Trauth announced today that Texas State University-San Marcos will begin a year-long, campus-wide effort to study its athletics program as part of the NCAA Division I athletics certification program.

Student Volunteer Connection invites students to make a difference
September 13, 2007
Texas State students, faculty and staff will have the chance to browse booths and meet with local agencies, schools, non-profit organizations and other community members at the Texas State Volunteer Fair Tuesday, September 18 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the LBJ Student Center Ballroom.

Texas State hosts 10th Annual Teachers Conference
September 13, 2007
The 10th Annual Texas State University-San Marcos Teachers Conference will be held 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 29 in the LBJ Student Center on campus.

MBA student earns $10,000 scholarship for scholastic achievement
September 11, 2007
Texas State University-San Marcos student Maggie Lajaunie will receive a $10,000 scholarship from the Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation Nov. 5 at the Westin La Cantera Resort in San Antonio.

Business fraternity earns Chapter of Excellence award
September 11, 2007
The national Alpha Kappa Psi chapter recognized the Texas State AKPsi chapter for its professional, fraternity and philanthropic activities during the 2006-2007 academic year.  Nearly 800 brothers and guests from universities throughout the nation attended the convention to celebrate the fraternity’s accomplishments.

Rape Aggression Defense System courses offered at Texas State
September 10, 2007
In an effort to spread rape prevention awareness among college students and community members, the Rape Aggression Defense System team will offer life-saving self defense classes.

Wakeboarding team gears up for regional collegiate competition
September 6, 2007
Texas State wakeboarding team athletes Bret Little, Tom Fooshee, Kassie Kaiser, Brett Hickey and Evan Washington are gearing up for the Southern Regional Collegiate Wakeboard Qualifier, Oct. 13-14 at the Texas Ski Ranch.

Texas State hosts 2007 Black and Latino Playwrights Conference
September 5, 2007
The Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University-San Marcos will host staged readings from the Fifth Annual Black and Latino Playwrights Conference Sept. 14-16.

Aug. 31, 2007
Remains of a dog-like creature dubbed "chupacabra" have been shipped to the Department of Biology at Texas State, which is currently running tests to divulge the classification of the animal in the lab’s Beckman-Coulter CEQ 8800 DNA sequencer.

Aug. 30, 2007
The Service-Learning Initiative (SLI) at Texas State University-San Marcos has joined the Texas Campus Compact (TXCC), a move that will to increase the visibility of ongoing service learning and civic engagement activities at the university.

Aug. 30, 2007
Twenty-two mummies in central Mexico—including one believed to be the world’s youngest embalmed mummified fetus—have revealed clues to their identities, thanks to research conducted by a team of scientists this summer.

Aug. 29, 2007
Award-winning filmmaker Laura Dunn will present her first feature film “The Unforeseen” 8 p.m. Sept. 11 at Sewell Park on the campus of Texas State University-San Marcos.

Aug. 29, 2007
Frances Wittenburg, a sophomore studying dental hygiene at Texas State University-San Marcos, proudly held her freshly-caught redfish and smiled for the camera before releasing it back into the coastal waters of Matagorda Bay.

Aug. 23, 2007
Rodney E. Rohde, assistant professor in the College of Health Professions, Clinical Laboratory Science program at Texas State University-San Marcos, has been awarded the 2007 Scientific Research Award by the American Society of Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) in San Diego, Calif. 

Aug. 22, 2007
“There is a lot of criticism given to the DOD and its military spending,” said Terry Golding, the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Chair in Materials Science and Engineering at Texas State University-San Marcos. “But it also creates all kinds of new technology that wouldn’t be here if driven only by commercial forces.”

Aug. 21, 2007
Texas State University-San Marcos continues to be counted among the rankings of America's Best Colleges, according to a report released Aug. 21 by U.S. News & World Report. The listing marks the third consecutive year Texas State has been ranked in the top tier of master's universities in the 15-state Western Region of the U.S. News ranking system.

Aug. 21, 2007
Texas State University-San Marcos has been named by The Princeton Review as one of the Best Western Colleges for 2008.  The list ranks the top 123 public and private institutions from the western United States, placing Texas State in elite company.

Aug. 21, 2007
Denise M. Trauth, president of Texas State University-San Marcos, said Tuesday (Aug. 21) that the university has made progress in key areas of its strategic plan and predicted more success in the coming year.

Aug. 16, 2007
Texas State University-San Marcos, Hays County and the City of San Marcos will officially dedicate the 251-acre Spring Lake Preserve in a public coronation and reception at 5 p.m. on Monday, August 20. The celebration will be held at the Texas Rivers Center, an arm of the Aquarena Center located on the campus of the university at 951 Aquarena Springs Drive.

July 20, 2007
Under a three-year $157,557 grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Northside ISD will partner with the Department of History at Texas State University-San Marcos and the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies in Washington, D.C., to ensure that 60 teachers get the tools they need to teach American history effectively.

July 19, 2007
The city of San Marcos, Hays County and Texas State University-San Marcos have successfully secured the $5.1 million necessary to purchase approximately 251 acres adjacent to Aquarena Springs from the Nature Conservancy of Texas (NCT) to create a new city park and greenbelt.

July 18, 2007
The gap in the scholarship and study of John Graves was recently satisfied with the February hardcover release of Terrell Dixon and Texas State University-San Marcos English professor Mark Busby’s John Graves, Writer.

July 18, 2007
Jian Shen, associate professor for mathematics at Texas State University-San Marcos, has been invited to attend the National Academy of Sciences’ 19^th Annual symposium. The Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium will be held in November where approximately 100 researchers from across the nation will be flown to California to meet.

July 17, 2007
Texas State University-San Marcos’ Society of Physics Students has won an award in recognition of one of their outreach activities. Five chapters from across the country were chosen by the national Society of Physics Students and were notified by mail in mid-June.

July 17, 2007
The River Systems Institute (RSI) at Texas State University-San Marcos in collaboration with the Nature Conservancy of Texas (NCT) recently received a grant in support of a project aimed to study, protect and restore habitat along the lower Brazos River.

July 16, 2007
Two health information management students from Texas State University-San Marcos have been honored by the Texas Health Information Management Association.

July 13, 2007
Sue Biedermann, chair of the Health Information Management program at Texas State University-San Marcos, was sworn in as president at the annual Texas Health Information Management Association meeting held in San Antonio in June.

July 13, 2007
Texas State University-San Marcos lost a close friend this week when former First Lady of the United States Lady Bird Johnson died July 11.

July 11, 2007
Texas State University-San Marcos and the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Foundation have announced the creation of the Joann Cole Mitte Faculty Grant for Excellence, an award of $25,000 which will be given annually to a Texas State faculty member to promote excellence in scholarship and research. 

July 10, 2007
The Choreographers’ Showcase will be held Aug. 2-3 at Texas State University-San Marcos. Sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Dance, the performance will be held in Jowers Hall, studio 178, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5.

July 6, 2007
John Graves' 1960 book, Goodbye to a River, was selected in March as the core text for the 2007-2008 “Common Experience” at Texas State University-San Marcos.

July 6, 2007
Texas State University-San Marcos’ interior design society has won the 2007 outstanding student chapter of the year award for the nation from the American Society of Interior Designers.

July 3, 2007
Admiral Bobby R. Inman will visit the Honors Summer Math Camp at Texas State University-San Marcos July 3. 

July 3, 2007
Texas State University-San Marcos will host the Third Annual Mathematics for English Language Learners Conference July 6-7 at the LBJ Student Center on campus.

June 29, 2007
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has named two Texas State University-San Marcos students recipients of the 2007 Fellowships for minority students entering the teaching profession.

June 28, 2007
The Summerfest Steering Committee will make a decision by Tuesday evening, July 3, on whether or not to implement inclement weather plans.

June 27, 2007
Barbara Trepagnier, sociology professor at Texas State, recently celebrated Paradigm Publishers’ paperback  release of her book entitled, Silent Racism: How Well-Meaning White People Perpetuate the Racial Divide.

June 27, 2007
Beginning July 1 the Career Services will be hosting an online Virtual Part-Time Campus Job Fair that will run through Aug. 31. 

June 26, 2007
Texas State University student John Sutterfield, along with past and current presidents  of the Texas State Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team Ashley Braine and Angela Bertero, have completed an interactive computer game to teach high school and college students the principles of obtaining funding for entrepreneurial ventures.

June 26, 2007
Michael Heintze, associate vice president for enrollment management at Texas State University-San Marcos, has been named to a national task force focused on admission issues sponsored by the College Board. 

University now to offer 111 majors with added General Studies
June 21, 2007
Texas State University-San Marcos has added another major, general studies, to the curriculum bringing the total count of student options to 111.

High school students intern as researchers in the College of Science
June 20, 2007
Five students from Kyle-based Lehman High School are currently interning as research assistants in the College of Science at Texas State University-San Marcos in a program designed to inspire youths to pursue careers in science.

Health Care Administration graduate leaves legacy of leadership
June 19, 2007
If leadership roles were a prerequisite for earning a diploma, Andrae Turner would have graduated with high honors from Texas State University-San Marcos. The Houstonian recently received his degree at spring commencement in May, adding to his substantial list of accomplishments.

Gear up for the 27th annual San Marcos Summerfest
June 18, 2007
Live entertainment, food and activity booths, special events for children, a patriotic program, a river parade and a fireworks exhibition will come together during the 27th Annual San Marcos Summerfest. 

Beck, Brennan honored with Excellence in Mentoring Award
June 18, 2007
Mary Brennan and Jennifer A. Beck have been honored with the 2007 Mariel M. Muir Excellence in Mentoring Award at Texas State University-San Marcos.

Student Recreation Center expansion begins
June 12, 2007
The expansion of the Student Recreation Center at Texas State University-San Marcos broke ground last week. The plan to expand the 13-year-old recreation center was approved in 2005 with construction to begin in 2006. 

Nowicki named director of School of Health Administration
June 11, 2007
Michael Nowicki has been named director of the School of Health Administration at Texas State University-San Marcos, after an extensive national search.

Student PR agency honored with Bronze Quill Award
June 11, 2007
Texas State University-San Marcos’ student-run public relations agency Bobcat Promotions has received a Bronze Quill Award of Merit for its “Trap the Grease – Atrapa la Grasa” campaign.

Jeanne Carpenter appointed Associate VP for Student Affairs at University of Texas
June 8, 2007
Texas State University-San Marcos’ alum Jeanne Carpenter has been named associate vice president for student affairs at The University of Texas at Austin.

Juan Felipe Herrera honored with Tomas Rivera Children’s Book Award
June 6, 2007
Juan Felipe Herrera’s Downtown Boy has been honored with the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award for books published in 2006. The award, established at Texas State University-San Marcos in 1995, is designed to encourage authors, illustrators and publishers to produce books that authentically reflect the lives of Mexican American children and young adults in the United States.

Student newspaper earns national recognition
June 5, 2007
The University Star, the student newspaper at Texas State University-San Marcos, has been nationally recognized at the prestigious Society of Professional Journalists’ 2006 Mark of Excellence Awards.

Pack It Up & Pass It On readies for massive “shopping day”
June 4, 2007
More than 1,000 needy San Marcos residents will “shop” for free Thursday, June 7 as Texas State University’s annual recycling program, Pack It Up and Pass It On, culminates in a free distribution event when clients of United Way of Hays County agencies select from items donated by students living in the 21 residence halls and three university-owned apartment complexes.

Rohde nominated for CDC’s prestigious Charles C. Shepard Science Award
June 1, 2007
Rodney E. Rohde, assistant professor in the College of Health Professions, Clinical Laboratory Science program at Texas State University-San Marcos, has been nominated for the prestigious Charles C. Shepard Science Award.