Community colleges are not often recognized as hotbeds of academic research, but at Amarillo College, once again a finalist for the nation’s foremost community college accolade – the Aspen Prize – research is a highly tangible pursuit.

The Amarillo College Foundation recently underscored the veracity of that assertion when, in support of its ongoing comprehensive campaign Badger Bold, it made a generous $250,000 bequest to establish the inaugural Distinguished Research Scientist endowment at AC.