Friday, January 30th, 2009

From Our Space to Yours

Texas Tech launches official MySpace page.

Friday, January 30th, 2009

What It Feels Like... To Make the Wheels on Texas Tech Buses Go Round

Mannette Breckenridge has driven a Citibus route on campus for nearly two years.

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Texas Tech Partnerships Earn State Awards

A Texas Tech University program director and a partnership with a Lubbock middle school earned statewide awards Jan. 27 in Austin as part of the 2009 State Education Awards Program.

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Graduate Students Take Ecology on The Road with Mobile Classroom

Students from Texas Tech and five major universities will receive hands-on field experience while studying the grazing lands of the United States.

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Texas Tech University Press Books Highlight Black History

Just in time for Black History Month, Texas Tech University Press presents four new books that illuminate a variety of subjects.

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

4-Legged Kids: More pet owners are establishing trusts to pay for the care of their animals after owners die

The first reported pet trust case in the United States took place in Kentucky in 1923, according to estate law professor Gerry Beyer at Texas Tech University in an online article titled “Pet Animals: What Happens When Their Humans Die?”

The courts upheld the owner’s right to provide for her dog, but the case didn’t spur [...]

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

A Farewell to Archives

James Reckner, professor and founding director of the Vietnam Center and Archive, retires after 20 years of service to Texas Tech.

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Undergraduate Research Keeps Fires Lit for Young Scientists

Texas Tech psychology expert and author, Roman Taraban, discusses creating effective undergraduate research programs in science.

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Whitacre College of Engineering to Collaborate on Defense Research

The Systems Engineering Research Center is the first Department of Defense university-affiliated research center focused on systems engineering research in the U.S.

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Expert: Undergraduate Research Succeeds in Keeping Fires Lit for Young Scientists

Undergraduate research programs seem to be a key in keeping budding scientists on track.

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

In the Fight Against Bill Creep, Every Extra Fee Is the Enemy

If automatic payments mean you automatically forget, reconsider whether you need the inconvenience of actually paying a bill to keep an eye on it or if you should cut it altogether and redirect the payment to automatic savings. Vickie Hampton, professor of personal financial planning at Texas Tech University, won’t sign up for automatic payments [...]

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Synergy Group NZ sells world wide through the Web

Studies carried out at the Department of Biological Sciences at the Texas Tech University showed that Alka Vita was found to inhibit the growth of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), Escherichia coli (E-Coli), Salmonella, Streptococcus pyogenes

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Texas Tech Graduate Students will Participate in Traveling Ecology Class

A group of Texas Tech University graduate students will spend two weeks this summer traveling through Nevada, California and Arizona studying the ecology of the nation’s critical grazing lands systems.

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Texas Tech Named Collaborator in First Defense-funded Systems Engineering Research Center

Texas Tech University will serve as a designated research collaborator in a first-of-its-kind Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) funded by the Department of Defense (DoD). The new center focuses on systems engineering challenges facing the department and related defense industries.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Texas Tech Business Students Have the Ear of the Auto Industry

Generation Y forges changes in car design.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

School of Law Launches New Journal

The Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal is the first of its kind.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Texas Tech IT division continues efforts to protect student identity

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Tex., is attempting to stay “a step ahead of the curve” in the ongoing battle against ID theft. Not only is it changing the Social Security number as a student identifier to its own Tech ID number, but it has instituted other prevention measures as well, such as requiring a new [...]

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Texas Tech Law Creates New Estate Planning & Community Property Law Journal

The Texas Tech University School of Law has unveiled a new law journal – the first of its kind in the country – devoted entirely to estate planning and community property issues.

Monday, January 26th, 2009

The Animated Library

From the team behind the Texas Tech University Libraries’ groundbreaking 3D Animation Lab: A 21st century model for your campus’s own 3D learning initiative.

Libraries have always been poised at the crossroads of access tools and content. Librarians, their personnel, and supporters have worked for generations to create the tools to store and utilize content for [...]

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Down with Negative Political Ads

It’s election season, and potential voters are bracing themselves for the (usually awful) campaign aids. US communications experts have found that such ads with “negative messages” disgust viewers. “We found that negative campaign ads that cost millions indeed have a physiological and psychological effect,” says James Angelini. He and colleagues at the University of Delaware, Texas [...]