Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
The Texas legislation comes partly in response to a 2008 article in the Texas Tech Law Review, “Zeroing Out Zero Tolerance: Eliminating Zero Tolerance Policies in Texas Schools,” which concluded that such laws have failed to reduce school violence while moving more students into the juvenile-justice system.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Luckily, some universities have been stepping in to fill the void. There are now about 100 university financial planning programs across the country, including at schools like Kansas State University, Virginia Tech and Texas Tech, where students take classes on retirement planning, risk management, estate planning, tax law and the latest planning technology.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
A newly developed decontamination wipe designed by researchers at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) at Texas Tech University has proven itself the best for cleaning up chemical warfare agents and toxic chemicals.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Scientists from UC Berkeley and Texas Tech University have found that there will be many shifts in areas susceptible to wildfires over the coming decades.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Award-winning nature writer Rick Bass will read and sign copies of his most recent book “Why I Came West,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award for autobiography in 2008.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Pop-culture guru Rob Weiner’s latest book examines Captain America’s cultural legacy.
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Mascot fulfills childhood ambition by riding Midnight Matador for the 2009-2010 season.
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Miguel Levario, an assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University and an expert on border history explained what he means in a statement.
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Poet and professor of English William Wenthe, of Texas Tech University, is the featured guest at Writers in Performance, Montgomery County’s leading literary group. The event starts at 7 p.m. Thursday in Room B-102 at Lone Star College-Montgomery.
Monday, April 20th, 2009
The advance of climate change will bring not only higher temperatures but also rapid changes in the distribution of wild fires, new research from the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with scientists at Texas Tech University, shows.
Monday, April 20th, 2009
David Rudd, Texas Tech University professor and author “Interpersonal Theory of Suicide,” said the more a person is exposed to violence or death, the more that person loses anxiety about death. This specifically applies to soldiers living in a war zone because the interaction with death makes it more probable that these people will kill themselves when they get depressed or anxious.
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Schauber is working with researchers from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Texas Tech and the University of North Dakota on the eight-year, more than $800,000 study, funded by the National Science Foundation.
Monday, April 20th, 2009
All have pitfalls of one sort or another. Kent Hance, chancellor of the Texas Tech University System, said a freeze would punish Tech, whose governing board held rates steady last year while other boards were raising charges.
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Captain America has fought Nazis, Communists and upheld American ideals for nearly 70 years, but is he the right hero for our era?
Monday, April 20th, 2009
Kristen Rinard revealed herself publicly after serving two years in secret as one of the faces behind Raider Red’s mask.
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Steven Berk, M.D., dean of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, will give the keynote address.
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Ambassador moderates panelists’ discussion.
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Russ Horn says there’s two kinds of technological thieves businesses face in life and both are bad news.
Texas Tech, for example, continues to promote its Safe Computer Practices Campaign at www.safecomputing.ttu.edu where individuals and businesses can be warned about serious problems through its LubbockITAlert.
“Our goal is to empower people with knowledge and tools to combat [...]
Friday, April 17th, 2009
IDEAL youth program for advanced thinkers taking applications for summer sessions.
Friday, April 17th, 2009
CoNetrix was recognized for its contribution to technology Tuesday following the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce’s annual Technology Awards luncheon held at Lubbock Christian University’s Baker Conference Center.
In the nonprofit category, Texas Tech’s Institute for Environmental & Human Health, was given the Innovation in Technology award for work conducted by Seshari Ramkumar, a professor and creator [...]
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