The recent addition to Tarleton State University’s Agricultural Center, the Animal and Plant Sciences Center, has been recognized for its design by a construction industry publication. Engineering News-Record named the Tarleton college farm modernization the best project under $10 million in the Texas-Louisiana Region. The highlight of the project, a multipurpose complex along College County Road 518, opened a year ago. The Animal and Plant Sciences Center is part of improvements and modernization of structures damaged in a 2016 tornado.