Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Texas Tech Biodefense Law Center Nets Five-Year Funding

The Center for Biodefense, Law and Public Policy at Texas Tech will serve as the Law, Policy and Ethics Core for the WRCE until 2014.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Peggy and Bill Dean Expansion to Merket Alumni Center

Texas Tech Alumni Association executives and friends take part in the ground breaking ceremony for the $4 million Merket Alumni Center expansion project. The project, scheduled to be complete in 2010, will nearly double the size of Merket Alumni Center by adding 10,694 square feet.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

System Honors Hill Country Graduates

Dozens recognized during 2009 Hill Country graduation ceremony in Johnson City.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Alumni Association Breaks Ground on New Merket Center Addition

The 10,694 square foot building should be complete in spring 2010.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

dSPACE, National Instruments and The MathWorks Team to Help Students Develop 'Green' Cars of the Future

EcoCAR teams using HIL technology from National Instruments include Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Georgia Tech, Michigan Tech University, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Texas Tech, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin and Virginia Tech. Two of these teams, Embry-Riddle and Virginia Tech also are using the National Instruments [...]

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Graduation season at Texas law schools

On May 9, Karl Rove, former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush, addressed graduates at Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Emergency H1N1 measures will hit U.S. agriculture

Emergency measures implemented in Mexico to halt the spread of H1N1 influenza will most likely sicken the only U.S. trade sector still generating a surplus in the downturned economy, say two Texas Tech University agricultural economists.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Area's biggest universities are missing out on millions in state funding

So are the University of Houston and Texas Tech University in Lubbock. They both come out top dollar winners, with Houston getting $28 million above what would be expected, followed by Texas Tech, with $23 million. The other universities competing in the Tier 1 sweepstakes are UT-El Paso and UT-San Antonio.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Pantex Plans to Build a Wind Farm

Since this is the regions first publicly funded wind farm, managers will be able to shut down production for the sake of Texas Tech’s research. Something that can’t be done at a commercial wind farm.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Schools probe grading methods to help pupils

Grades are part of a teacher’s assessment of student learning, said Pam Tipton, Texas Tech University teacher certification director. Report card grades and semester grades much lower than a 50 can leave a student with few options for passing, leading many to give up and drop out, educators said.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Texas wine-industry research symposium to be held in Granbury

The first Texas Viticulture and Enology Research Symposium will be held June 2-3 at the new Granbury Resort Conference Center, 621 East Pearl Street.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Tuesday winebits 73: Texas viticulture degree, older wine drinkers, Europeans cutting back

Texas Tech adds degree program: The Lubbock university has added a degree specialization in viticulture and enology, plus classes offering everything from grape growing to wine production and retailing. Texas Tech is the first university in the state, and one of only a few in the country, with this kind of undergraduate program.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Agricultural Subsidies, Food Security and Trade

The Texas Tech analysis “Crop Subsidies in Foreign Countries: Different Paths to Common Goals” is an update of a study first completed in February 2007. Increasing production of ethanol, increasing agricultural subsidies and the current worldwide recession caused the authors to reassess the situation for 21 major developed and developing countries. The study notes in [...]

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Some beginning to believe India wants U.S. out of cotton business

There is a big difference between perception and reality when it comes to crop subsidies around the world.

According to a study from the Cotton Economic Research Institute at Texas Tech University, all countries, both industrialized and developing, support their agriculture sectors with vastly divergent policy tools and combinations of tools.

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Ag Subsidies Common Worldwide

But a report from Texas Tech University’s Cotton Economic Research Institute shows that agricultural subsidies are more the norm rather than the exception for 21 developing and developed countries studied. The study focused on seven commodities: corn, cotton, rice, sorghum, soybeans, sugar and wheat.

Monday, May 11th, 2009

College of Outreach & Distance Ed Names New Assistant Dean

Berhl Robertson has been chosen as the assistant dean for the kindergarten-through-12th-grade program, effective June 8.

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Texas Tech Receives Patent for Decontamination Wipe Creation Process

The process used to create nonwoven toxic chemical decontamination wipes, such as Texas Tech University’s Fibertect™, recently received a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Monday, May 11th, 2009

WHY Technical Textiles is the Next Phase in the Industry

Seshadri S. Ramkumar,Nonwovens and Advanced Materials Laboratory, The Institute of Environmental and Human Health, Texas Tech University,Lubbock, Texas USA

Monday, May 11th, 2009

Rove to Speak at 2 Texas Graduations

On Saturday, Rove is slated to give the commencement address at the Texas Tech University School of Law graduation ceremony in Lubbock.

Monday, May 11th, 2009

http://www.weatherforddemocrat.com/opinion/local_story_129225741.html

We also heard the college choices of WHS’s best: NYU, Auburn, A&M, UT-Austin, Texas Tech. Like a proud pop, WHS principal Dr. David Belding read them off to the cheering crowd.