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Senior Capstone is crowning experience for ACU undergraduates
From filmmaking in Cambodia to studying Native American pictographs with multispectral imaging, ACU students are putting their knowledge into practice every day. Experiential learning – or learning by doing – is an important part of an ACU education and is built into the curriculum for all undergraduate majors from their freshman through senior years. The culmination is a Senior Capstone project, which puts into practice classroom lessons.
ACU achieves elite academic recognition with Carnegie Research 2 status
Abilene Christian University has earned Research 2 (R2) status in the latest update from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education – a milestone that reflects ACU’s intentional commitment to research growth and academic excellence. The prestigious R2 designation places Abilene Christian among top research universities in the nation, recognizing high spending and doctorate production.
ACU partners with Texas Tech, Natura to advance cutting-edge technology
ACU and Texas Tech University announced a Memorandum of Understanding with Natura Resources LLC of Abilene to seek business opportunities and funding for projects related to Natura’s molten salt reactor currently under construction on the ACU campus. The collaboration, which includes the Texas Produced Water Consortium located at Texas Tech, builds on the rapid progress of the Natura MSR-1 system, one of the nation’s leading advanced reactor projects.
