ALUMNI ASSOCIATION UPDATE

Season of Giving

Alumni Association President Debby McCullough wishes all Bobcat alumni a safe and enjoyable holiday season, and a prosperous new year. This holiday season, please consider giving the gift that keeps on giving by making a tax-deductible donation to the Alumni Priority Fund to provide opportunities for students and alumni alike to find meaningful involvement in the Bobcat community.

FROM THE NEWSROOM

Dr. Rodney E. Rohde, Chair and Regents’ Professor of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program and Associate Director of the Translational Health Research Center at Texas State University, provides insights on how to best gather safely for the holidays during the pandemic.

After a national search, Texas State University has chosen Matthew Carmichael as the next Director and Chief of the University Police Department. As part of his 37 years of experience in law enforcement, Chief Carmichael has 19 years of direct experience leading police departments within large, diverse, public institutions of higher education. He will begin his role on January 10, 2022.

Amy Reid, curator for the Center for Archaeological Studies (CAS) at Texas State, wrote a children's book, Maybe You'll be an Archaeologist, with all the proceeds going to benefit CAS’s public outreach mission under their Public Archaeology Serving Texas program (PAST).

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Alumni Association Scholarship Recipients

Mallory Eastland
(B.E. '14)

Mallory earned her degree in exercise and sports sciences from Texas State and went on to earn a master's degree in environmental science from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has worked for the Texas A&M Natural Resource Institute for the past four years and recently moved to North Carolina to serve as a project coordinator for the South Atlantic Salt Marsh Initiative, a regional conservation initiative working to preserve over one million acres of salt marsh in the southeast. Mallory's favorite memories of her time at Texas State include serving as president of the Renegade Roses and meeting her husband, who is a fellow Bobcat and former TXST rugby player. “I relied on scholarships to pay for my degree and being the recipient of an Alumni Association scholarship was a great honor that helped me become an alum myself,” said Eastland. She is currently working on a project related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the wildlife profession with the James G. Teer Conservation Leadership Institute.