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TEXAS TECH POLITICAL SCIENCE CLASS RELEASES FINAL POLL RESULTS

DATE: Oct. 29, 2004
CONTACT: Tiffany Tubbs-Berry, tiffany.tubbs@ttu.edu

LUBBOCK – The 19th Congressional District election between Republican Randy Neugebauer and Democrat Charlie Stenholm is one of the most competitive and expensive in the nation. As a means of studying how campaigns affect voter behavior, a Texas Tech University political science class is releasing the third and final [...]

DONOR CREATES ENDOWED CHAIRS FOR TWO COLLEGES

DATE: Oct. 28, 2004
CONTACT: Tiffany Tubbs-Berry, tiffany.tubbs@ttu.edu

LUBBOCK – James W. Bagley, chairman of the board and chief operating officer of Lam Research Corp., today, (Oct. 28), established two endowed chairs at Texas Tech University in the Rawls College of Business and the College of Engineering.

“My family has a strong attachment to Texas Tech University. [...]

TEXAS TECH PANHELLENIC AND INTERFRATERNITY COUNCILS CO-SPONSOR GREEK TREAT

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DATE: Oct. 29, 2004
CONTACT: Tiffany Tubbs-Berry, tiffany.tubbs@ttu.edu

TEXAS TECH PANHELLENIC AND INTERFRATERNITY COUNCILS CO-SPONSOR GREEK TREAT

LUBBOCK – The Texas Tech University Panhellenic and Interfraternity Councils are co-sponsoring the eighth annual Greek Treat 5 – 7 p.m., Sunday, (Oct. 31), at Greek Circle, located on Quaker Avenue between 8th and 15th Streets. Lubbock community parents [...]

TEXAS TECH PROFESSOR EXAMINES CELL PHONE FRAUD

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Date: October 27, 2004
CONTACT: Scott Slemmons, scott.slemmons@ttu.edu

TEXAS TECH PROFESSOR EXAMINES CELL PHONE FRAUD

LUBBOCK – Cell phone users must be as on-guard against fraud as users of the Internet, according to a professor at Texas Tech University at Abilene, one of Texas Tech University’s recognized higher education teaching sites.

Remzi Seker, Ph.D., assistant professor of [...]

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING SCIENCES SPONSORS NATIONAL CAREER AWARENESS DAY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 26, 2004
CONTACT: Suzanna Cisneros Martinez, suzanna.martinez@ttuhsc.edu

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER
DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING SCIENCES
SPONSORS NATIONAL CAREER AWARENESS DAY

LUBBOCK – The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center’s Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, in conjunction with the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NSSLHA) and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), is sponsoring the National [...]

TEXAS TECH PROVIDES INTERNATIONAL EDGE TO BRAZILIAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

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Date: October 26, 2004
CONTACT: Scott Slemmons, scott.slemmons@ttu.edu

TEXAS TECH PROVIDES INTERNATIONAL EDGE TO BRAZILIAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

LUBBOCK – Young Brazilian college students at universities around the globe are armed with Texas high school diplomas. With this document in one hand, and their Brazilian diploma in the other, these young academics are well-equipped for whatever [...]

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER ADDRESSES DIVERSITY ISSUES: WHY CULTURAL SENSITIVITY IS IMPORTANT IN TODAY’S HEALTH CARE

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October 26, 2004
CONTACT: Suzanna Cisneros Martinez, suzanna.martinez@ttuhsc.edu

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER
ADDRESSES DIVERSITY ISSUES: WHY CULTURAL SENSITIVITY IS
IMPORTANT IN TODAY’S HEALTH CARE

LUBBOCK – According to State Demographer Steve H. Murdock, if current trends continue, Texas is projected to be less than 50 percent Anglo by 2008 and will have a [...]

TEXAS TECH STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN THE VOUCHER PROGRAM

DATE: Oct. 25, 2004
CONTACT: Tiffany Tubbs-Berry, tiffany.tubbs@ttu.edu

WHAT: The Texas Tech University Center for Campus Life encourages students to participate in voucher program.

WHEN: Oct. 25 – Oct. 29.

WHERE: Room 201 in the Student Union Building on the Texas Tech campus.

EVENT: The Center for Campus Life is working with the South Plains Food Bank to help raise awareness about hunger and [...]

FORMER NFL PLAYER SPEAKS ON RECOVERY FROM ADDICTION

DATE: Oct. 25, 2004
WRITER: Tiffany Tubbs-Berry, tiffany.tubbs@ttu.edu

WHAT: Willie Tullis, former NFL player and Kodak All American cornerback, will speak about his recovery and addiction.

WHEN: 7 p.m., Tuesday (Oct. 26).

WHERE: Allen Theater, located in the Student Union Building on campus.

EVENT: October is National Drug Awareness Month. The Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery is hosting guest lecturer [...]

DONOR CREATES ENDOWED CHAIRS FOR TWO COLLEGES

DATE: Oct. 25, 2004
CONTACT: Tiffany Tubbs-Berry, tiffany.tubbs@ttu.edu

WHAT: News Conference announcing two new Texas Tech University endowed chairs.

WHEN: 1:30 p.m., Thursday (Oct. 28).

WHERE: Lubbock Country Club, located at 3400 Mesa Road.

EVENT: James W. Bagley, chairman and chief operating officer of Lam Research Corp, established two endowed chairs at Texas Tech University in the Rawls College of Business and the College [...]

IROQUOIS CHIEF TO SPEAK AT TEXAS TECH LECTURE SERIES

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Date: October 21, 2004
CONTACT: Scott Slemmons, scott.slemmons@ttu.edu

IROQUOIS CHIEF TO SPEAK AT TEXAS TECH LECTURE SERIES

LUBBOCK – Texas Tech University will host a chief of the Iroquois Nation in its Formby Lectures on Social Justice.

Chief Oren Lyons, traditional Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation Council of Chiefs of the Six [...]

COTTON ECONOMICS EXPERTS MEASURE EFFECTS OF CHINESE CURRENCY APPRECIATION IN WORLD FIBER MARKETS

DATE: Oct. 21, 2004
CONTACT: Tiffany Tubbs-Berry, tiffany.tubbs@ttu.edu

LUBBOCK– Texas Tech University agricultural economists today, (Oct. 20), announced results of an analysis of the effects of a projected Chinese currency appreciation on world fiber markets.

Samarendu Mohanty, Ph.D., associate professor of agricultural and applied economics and study coordinator at Texas Tech, said that an appreciation in the [...]

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER - WALKING AND CYCLING FOR A GREAT CAUSE

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October 16, 2004
CONTACT: Suzanna Cisneros Martinez, suzanna.martinez@ttuhsc.edu

WALKING AND CYCLING FOR A GREAT CAUSE

LUBBOCK – Heart disease is the country’s No. 1 cause of death; stroke is No. 3. Together these cardiovascular diseases kill more than 930,000 Americans each year. More than 1,000 area residents walked and cycled for a great cause by [...]

TEXAS TECH PROFESSOR NAMED DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS

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Date: October 14, 2004
CONTACT: Scott Slemmons, scott.slemmons@ttu.edu

TEXAS TECH PROFESSOR NAMED DISTINGUISHED ALUMNUS

LUBBOCK – A professor in the Texas Tech University School of Law has received the 2004 Distinguished Alumnus Award from Angelo State University.

Brian Shannon, J.D., Charles “Tex” Thornton Professor of Law and the associate dean for academic affairs at the School [...]

TEXAS TECH LAW PROFESSORS NAMED “SUPER LAWYERS”

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Date: October 14, 2004
CONTACT: Scott Slemmons, scott.slemmons@ttu.edu

TEXAS TECH LAW PROFESSORS NAMED “SUPER LAWYERS”

LUBBOCK – Two professors in the Texas Tech University School of Law have been named “Super Lawyers” in a survey by Texas Monthly magazine.

Adjunct Professor of Law Don Hunt, J.D., and Robert H. Bean Professor of Law Marilyn Phelan, J.D., were [...]

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER DOCTOR FEATURED IN NATIONAL JOURNAL

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October 12, 2004
CONTACT: Suzanna Cisneros Martinez, suzanna.martinez@ttuhsc.edu

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER DOCTOR’S WORK FEATURED IN NATIONAL JOURNAL

LUBBOCK – Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center’s E. Eldo Frezza, M.D., chief of General Surgery and the laparoscopic program, is featured as the lead article of the prestigious “Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical [...]

TEXAS TECH STUDENTS EXAMINE MUSIC AND POLITICS

Date: October 12, 2004
CONTACT: Scott Slemmons, scott.slemmons@ttu.edu

LUBBOCK – From colonial-era folk songs and Reconstruction spirituals to 1960s singalongs and today’s angry punk rock and country hits, one thing has tied them all together: politics. And a new course at Texas Tech University is examining just how music and political sentiment interact.

Christopher Smith, Ph.D., assistant professor [...]

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY AWARDS

DATE: Oct. 12, 2004
CONTACT: Tiffany Tubbs-Berry, tiffany.tubbs@ttu.edu

MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TEAMS WIN FIRST PLACE AT RODEO

The Texas Tech University men’s and women’s rodeo teams both won first place at the Vernon College Rodeo, October 7-9.

Stetson Vest, freshman animal and food sciences major from Childress, led the men’s team by finishing first in the all-around [...]

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER'S SCHOOL OF ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES TO SPONSOR JOB FAIR

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 4, 2004
CONTACT: Suzanna Cisneros Martinez, suzanna.martinez@ttuhsc.edu

TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER’S SCHOOL OF ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES TO HOST JOB FAIR

LUBBOCK – The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center’s School of Allied Health Sciences will host a job fair for students from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 26. at the Health [...]

TEXAS TECH POLITICAL SCIENCE CLASS RELEASES FIRST CONGRESSIONAL RACE POLL

EVENT ADVISORY
Date: October 11, 2004
CONTACT: Sally Logue Post, sally.post@ttu.edu

WHAT: Poll results from 19th Congressional District election.

WHEN: Noon, Tuesday, (Oct. 12).

WHERE: Department of Political Science Library, first floor, Holden Hall.

EVENT: A Texas Tech University political science class has begun polling residents living in the 19th Congressional District on the election between incumbents Randy Neugebauer and Charlie Stenholm. The 19th Congressional [...]

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