Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Without an inkling of weariness or frustration, LaGina Fairbetter goes about the work of carefully creating the correct perspective for buildings in a frontier town.
The project, scheduled to open in October, will become the newest addition to the Windmill Museum at the American Wind Power Center in Lubbock. Work on the mural began in late [...]
Friday, June 19th, 2009
Texas Tech team wins Best Education Outreach Award at EcoCAR Competition in Toronto.
Friday, June 19th, 2009
Texas Tech professor receives grant from the National Institutes of Health.
Friday, June 19th, 2009
Texas Tech Executive Chef Rocky Rockwell named Chef of the Year by the South Plains Chef Association.
Friday, June 19th, 2009
Former Texas Tech track star Leigh Daniel and her fiancé, Nick Cordes, passed round one in the marathon for a Today Show wedding.
Friday, June 19th, 2009
Texas Tech has partnered with the Jerry Gray Foundation to raise funds for scholarships to help Estacado High School students attend college.
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Texas Tech partners with the Jerry Gray foundation to bring scholarships to Estacado graduates.
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a report detailing severe impacts that have already occurred in the United States due to climate change. We discuss the report, as well as federal climate change legislation from Congressmen Henry Waxman and Ed Markey.
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Rocky Rockwell said he’s often been the target of criticism in the kitchen when he cooks with his wife of two months.
“She used to call me a kitchen nazi” he said of her reaction to his frequent suggestions when she tried to cook.
“But I don’t even say anything any more,” he said.
Though his wife wasn’t [...]
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Tech hopes its newly hired Vice Chancellor will also help “spur” the University’s growth. Russ Bookbinder retired last June as the Executive Vice President of Business Operations for the San Antonio Spurs.
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
H. Ross Perot Sr. speaks at the Texas Tech University Vietnam Center and Archive’s 20th Anniversary Ball.
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Sitting outside a lab filled with stainless steel instruments and winding cables, Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday signed into law a bill that creates an incentive program to award seven Texas universities millions of dollars in an effort to help them become top U.S. research institutions.
Perry signed the bill in the natural science and engineering [...]
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
New partnership between Dallas-area school districts, the Dallas County Community College District and Texas Tech University prepares bilingual/ESL teachers through distance education.
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Texas Tech University System Chancellor Kent Hance announced today (June 17) the hiring of Russ Bookbinder as vice chancellor and chief marketing officer. He will begin his duties on July 2.
Bookbinder will collaborate with Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Angelo State University to develop integrated marketing and communication strategies for [...]
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
A pop-culture author and guru can examined the Captain’s legacy after his highly publicized assassination in 2007.
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Hospitality Services looking toward an earth- and heart- healthy future.
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Here’s the problem, though. Ever since James ‘Bucky’ Barnes took over the role as Captain America last year, he’s developed a very loyal fan base. Many current Cap readers have voiced their displeasure over Rogers’ proposed return, vowing to drop the book if he does. (Even a noted pop-culture scholar prefers Bucky over Steve.)
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Rather than the heroin addictions many Vietnam veterans brought back with them from Southeast Asia, today’s returning soldiers are more likely to be addicted to prescription medications — the very opiates prescribed to them by the military to ease stress or pain — or stimulants used by soldiers to remain alert in combat situations.
The Internet [...]
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Climate change is visible and occurring throughout the U.S., but the choices we make now will determine the severity of its impacts in the future, according to a Texas Tech University climate scientist who served as a lead author on a report released today by the White House.
Katharine Hayhoe, a research associate professor in the [...]
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
A report released by the U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism found that binge drinking and drinking-related deaths among college-age students are increasing.
Kitty Harris-Wilkes, director of Texas Tech University’s Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery, can speak about drug and alcohol abuse among college students and prevention methods that could help [...]
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