page_title: Sul Ross State University
section_title: Facilities and projects of interest
hierarchical_section_title: Sul Ross State University / Academics and research / Facilities and projects of interest
caption_attribution_description: English: Sul Ross State University
context_page_description: Sul Ross State University is a public university in Alpine, Texas. The main campus is the primary institution of higher education serving the nineteen-county Big Bend region of far West Texas. Branch campuses, branded as Rio Grande College, are located in Del Rio, Uvalde, Eagle Pass, and Castroville.
  Named for former Texas governor and Civil War Confederate general Lawrence Sullivan Ross, the institution was founded in 1917 as Sul Ross Normal College and was made a university in 1969. It is governed by the Board of Regents of the Texas State University System, which guides four universities and three community and technical colleges in the state.
context_section_description: Archives of the Big Bend
  Borderlands Research Institute for Natural Resource Management
  Center for Big Bend Studies
  Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute
  Chihuahuan Desert Resource, Conservation, and Development Area, Inc.
  Museum of the Big Bend
  Minority and Small Business Development Center
  Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library
  Arts in West Texas
  Rio Grande Heritage Tourism Project
  Rio Grande Research Center
  Sul Ross State University Alumni Association
  Theatre of the Big Bend
  Jim V. Richerson Invertebrate Collection
  A. Michael Powell Herbarium
  James F. Scuddy Vertebrate Collection
caption: View of Sul Ross State University
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