Archive for March, 2009
Monday, March 16th, 2009
The other six universities — Texas Tech, UT Arlington, UT Dallas, UT San Antonio, the University of Houston and the University of North Texas — are in the same range as UTEP. All aspire to climb into the higher tier of academic research.
Monday, March 16th, 2009
In recognition of his scholastic achievements, Eric Gordon of Corsicana was named to the 2009 Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech dean’s list.
Monday, March 16th, 2009
The curriculum for the new humane care certification program is being developed by Dr. John McGlone, an animal and food science professor at Texas Tech University.
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Basically, the company released these results to five college-student teams representing Clemson University, Gonzaga University, Michigan State University, Syracuse University and Texas Tech University.
Monday, March 16th, 2009
The former Texas Tech star is RodeoHouston’s defending champion.
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Texas Tech Health Sciences Center President John Baldwin spent $1,143.36 on the trip. He chartered a private plane to get from Lubbock to Abilene for a business meeting in July, records The Avalanche-Journal obtained through the Texas Public Information Act show.
Monday, March 16th, 2009
The head of the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center recently paid back thousands of dollars he owed to the university for flying his wife back and forth between Lubbock and New York City on a university account.
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Those who cast the nation’s projected Hispanic population boom as a roadblock should take a closer look, according to three Texas Tech scholars. It’s actually an economic boon, they say.
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Findings released at Texas Tech University Vietnam Center’s conference on Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand and the Vietnam War.
Monday, March 16th, 2009
A majority of Texans list having a healthy marriage as a top priority in life, but many younger and Hispanic couples may need help keeping their knot tied.
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Texas Tech’s Susan Polgar to co-chair the Commission for Women’s Chess.
Monday, March 16th, 2009
Susan Polgar will co-chair a World Chess Federation commitee on women’s chess issues.
Friday, March 13th, 2009
A majority of Texans list having a healthy marriage as a top priority in life, but many younger and Hispanic couples may need help keeping their knot tied.
Friday, March 13th, 2009
Andrea Long Tirey joins Leadership Lubbock class.
Friday, March 13th, 2009
On Thursday, at this year’s meeting, a team from Texas Tech University presented data that challenged the plagiarism detection services in a new way. The team found that services that theoretically detect the same sorts of problems actually find (or don’t find) very different examples of possible plagiarism.
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
The House Higher Education Committee heard Wednesday from leaders of all seven schools: the University of North Texas, UT-Arlington, UT-Dallas, UT-El Paso, UT-San Antonio, Texas Tech and the University of Houston. The committee took no action on the bill.
Donna Halstead, president of the Dallas Citizens Council, suggested letting all seven schools compete for state money, [...]
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Applications for graduate programs at Texas Tech University are up by 20 percent domestically, and 26 percent among international students; meanwhile, graduate school Dean Fred Hartmeister reported an even steeper increase in applications for scholarships and grants.
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
All seven candidates — the University of Houston, Texas Tech University, the University of North Texas and the University of Texas System campuses at Arlington, Dallas, El Paso and San Antonio — all need to pump up research expenditures, academic competitiveness of faculty members and students, endowments and other benchmarks before they could be considered [...]
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence to release previously classified studies of the Vietnam war during the conference.
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Top chess players to compete at Texas Tech’s International Grandmaster Chess Tournament.