{"id":248679,"date":"2026-04-14T04:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248679\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:48:23","slug":"texas-tech-names-new-vice-president-for-research-and-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/248679\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech names new vice president for research and innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech University announced James Reecy as its new vice president for research and innovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Reecy is coming from Iowa State University, where he served as associate vice president for research since 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Texas Tech, Reecy has a proven commitment to translating academic discovery into real-world solutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">University President Lawrence Schovanec said he is confident Reecy will \u201chelp to further elevate Texas Tech\u2019s national research profile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Reecy will begin his new role on July 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech University announced James Reecy as its new vice president for research and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[163,94498,319,94501,66,168,170,169,1769,94500,299,94499],"class_list":["post-248679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-education","tag-james-reecy","tag-kcbd","tag-lawrence-schovanec","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-vice-president-of-research-and-innovation","tag-ttu","tag-vice-president-of-research-and-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}