{"id":292538,"date":"2026-05-14T08:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/292538\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:02:36","slug":"texas-tech-appoints-reecy-to-vp-post-in-ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/292538\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech appoints Reecy to VP post in ag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Tech University has appointed James Reecy, Ph.D., as the new vice president for research and innovation. A seasoned administrator, livestock geneticist and bioinformatician, Reecy will officially assume the role July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Reecy arrives at Texas Tech with a distinguished track record of leading complex research enterprises and a proven commitment to translating academic discovery into real-world solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Reecy joins Texas Tech from Iowa State University, where he has served as associate vice president for research since 2017. At Iowa State, he oversaw a research enterprise with more than $466 million in annual expenditures, facilitated more than $230 million in annual federal funding and supported interdisciplinary growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech University has appointed James Reecy, Ph.D., as the new vice president for research and innovation. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[106934,106935,65327,289,73921,94498,106936,168,170,169,106937,44045,873,106938],"class_list":["post-292538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-agricultural-research","tag-bioinformatics","tag-federal-research-funding","tag-higher-education","tag-iowa-state-university","tag-james-reecy","tag-livestock-genetics","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-research-administration","tag-research-and-innovation","tag-texas-tech-university","tag-university-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292538","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=292538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}