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Diana Natalicio on quest to make UTEP a top research school

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.

Familiar Faces

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.

Animal welfare group offers Humane Care certification to food producers

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.

Study: Generation Y Gains Power, Influence over Industry

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.

The former Texas Tech star is RodeoHouston’s defending champion.

Tech leaders: Private flights are necessity

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.

HSC President Baldwin pays back Tech travel debt

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.

Texas Tech Authors See Hispanic Population Increase as Plus

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.

CIA Releases Newly Declassified Assessments of Vietnam War-era Intelligence

Findings released at Texas Tech University Vietnam Center’s conference on Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand and the Vietnam War.

Healthy Relationships Month Raises Question: Can Texas Couples Stay Married?

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.

SPICE Director Appointed to World Chess Federation Committee

Texas Tech’s Susan Polgar to co-chair the Commission for Women’s Chess.

Texas Tech’s SPICE Director Appointed to World Chess Federation Committee

Susan Polgar will co-chair a World Chess Federation commitee on women’s chess issues.

Healthy Relationships Month Raises Question: Can Texas Couples Stay Married?

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.

Texas Tech Development Officer Named to Leadership Texas Class of 2009

Andrea Long Tirey joins Leadership Lubbock class.

False Positives on Plagiarism

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.

Supporters of tier one funding bill address Texas House panel

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, [...]

Grad school applications mixed as economy falters

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.

Rising to tier one will take time, money, political will

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 [...]

Vietnam Center Hosts Conference on Wars in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand

CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence to release previously classified studies of the Vietnam war during the conference.

SPICE Hosts Spring Invitational

Top chess players to compete at Texas Tech’s International Grandmaster Chess Tournament.