UHV NewsWire
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Student dreams of fighting crime from lab


Alyssa Torres, a senior at Idea College Preparatory in Donna, enjoyed watching the TV show "CSI" so much that she decided to become a real-life crime scene investigator.

Alyssa Torres
Alyssa Torres

She plans to join the FIRST 200 freshmen at the University of Houston-Victoria this fall and major in forensic science.

"I like that the student-teacher ratio is small and the fact that everything on campus is close together," she said.

In her spare time, she teaches catechism classes about the history and beliefs of the Catholic Church at her home parish, Resurrection Catholic Church.

The University of Houston-Victoria, located in the heart of the Coastal Bend region, offers courses leading to more than 65 bachelor’s and master’s degree programs and concentrations in the schools of Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, Education & Human Development, and Nursing. UHV provides face-to-face classes at its Victoria campus as well as teaching sites in Fort Bend and Harris counties, and online classes that students can take from anywhere. Since its founding in 1973, UHV has provided students with a quality university education from excellent faculty at an affordable price.

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