CROWELL, Texas (KAUZ) – The Texas Tech University System announced Tuesday, February 27, that it has received 6,000 acres of land from the Three Rivers Foundation for the Arts and Sciences.
The facility includes the Comanche Springs Astronomy Campus and its facilities, located approximately 10 miles west of Crowell.
The CSAC site is located in an area that stretches from outside the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex to Amarillo, providing significant research, education and community engagement opportunities for the TTU System and its five member universities.
The gift was made by Fred Koch, M.D., a founding member of the Three Rivers Foundation and a 1975 graduate of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and is the first of its kind for the TTU System. is.
This gift now represents the largest real estate gift to the TTU system.
Named after the region's Pease, Red, and Wichita rivers, the Three Rivers property is home to vast biodiversity and healthy ecosystems typical of short-grass prairie.
On-site facilities include a telescope, an observatory, living classrooms and laboratories, a pavilion, and accommodations for students, faculty, and the surrounding community. The site also includes large areas of undeveloped land, allowing for more research and learning opportunities across agricultural and environmental sciences, arts and humanities, and health and medicine.
The TTU System manages the facility and works with the system's institutions and communities to coordinate the operation, collaboration, and use of the facility.
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