Friday, July 31st, 2009

International Cotton School Brings Pros to Lubbock

The two-week school features hands-on instruction of all phases of cotton production, harvesting, ginning, classing, testing, preparation and processing.

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Texas Tech Spirit Squads Grab Top Scores, All-American Spots at National Camp

Texas Tech’s cheerleaders, pom squad members and mascots notched up a number of honors, including rare fully paid bids to the national championship.

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Graduate School Honors High-Quality Theses and Dissertations

Seven graduate students are honored for outstanding research contributions to their fields of study.

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Texas Tech petition opposes ex-AG Gonzales' hire

A small group of Texas Tech University faculty members is objecting to the school’s hiring of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and is trying to gather signatures for a petition that claims he has “demonstrated significant ethical failings.”

But Chancellor Kent Hance said Thursday that the petition targeting the hire won’t deter him from having [...]

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Solar News on GWS Technologies

GWS Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: GWSC), an alternative energy company developing renewable energy solutions, announced today that it has partnered with Dominion Real Estate Investments LLC, (DREI) to begin development of a 118 acre solar farm in Lubbock Texas.

The project could provide power to a planned housing development and federal facilities contiguous to Lubbock Airport. The [...]

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Hospitality Services Employees Elected to Office In National Food Service Organization

NACUFS appoints Sam Bennett as national president and Kirk Rodriguez as president of Southern region.

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Texas Tech Professors Sign Petition Against Gonzales

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will be on the Texas Tech University payroll for only a year. But that’s not stopping several professors from protesting their soon-to-be colleague’s new job, the college’s student newspaper reported today.

A nine-page petition signed by 70 professors and obtained by The Daily Toreador said it was unethical to hire Gonzales [...]

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Alberto Gonzales and the Texas Tech Faculty Posse

Two years after he was forced to resign as Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales is scheduled to teach undergraduates at Texas Tech, something he has never done before, and the university’s real professors are not happy about it. Over 40 Texas Tech faculty members (47 at last report) have signed a petition objecting to the teaching [...]

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Texas Tech's Walter Schaller Spearheads Petition Protesting Appointment of Disgraced Former AG Alberto Gonzales

Kudos to philosopher Walter Schaller at Texas Tech University for organizing a petition to protest the appointment of disgraced former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to the faculty.  (More information and supporting documents here.)  The petition correctly challenges both the “procedure” by which he was appointed (there wasn’t one!) and the merits of the appointment.  So [...]

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Consider This... Gonzales Perspective Good for TTU Students

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been hired to teach political science at Texas Tech. That decision has had a polarizing reaction. Opponents to the hire are saying he is a bad representative for Tech because of his “questionable and controversial record” as a Bush cabinet member, while the other side says Tech is fortunate [...]

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Some at Texas Tech Protest Gonzales Hiring

In response to a petition objecting to his hiring at Texas Tech University, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said while the petition’s creator is “entitled to his opinion” he “respectfully” disagrees with it.

The petition opposing Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance’s acquisition of Gonzales as a teacher, recruiter and guest speaker was signed by 70 [...]

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Wary Investors Are Seeking Out Objective Voices

In the aftermath of the financial-market crisis, investors are leaving Wall Street to sign on with independent investment advisers.

Last year, registered investment advisers brought in more than $108 billion of net new assets into the three largest custodians, according to Charles Schwab Corp., which holds roughly $500 billion in assets for such advisers. By contrast, [...]

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Tier-1 money among 11 items on Texas fall ballot

Voters will decide this fall whether seven schools, including UTEP, could eventually have access to $425 million to boost them to elite status.

The measure will be the fourth of 11 proposed amendments to the Texas Constitution on the November ballot. Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade on Tuesday randomly picked the order in which the [...]

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

GWS Technologies Announces Initial Development of Lubbock, Texas, Solar Farm

GWS Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: GWSC), an alternative energy company developing renewable energy solutions, announced today that it has partnered with Dominion Real Estate Investments LLC, (DREI) to begin development of a 118 acre solar farm in Lubbock Texas.

The project could provide power to a planned housing development and federal facilities contiguous to Lubbock Airport. The [...]

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Scorching summers a definite possibility

Imagine summers with 21 days of 100-plus temperatures. And 60 days of ”cooler” temperatures in the 90s.

Experts predict this could become Northeast Ohio’s reality by the end of the century.

”The future changes documented in this report are sobering,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University and co-author of a report released Tuesday [...]

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Kathleen A. Phelan to Be Profiled in Exclusive Registry

Kathleen A. Phelan, Student at Texas Tech University College of Education and Student at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, has been recognized by Cambridge Who’s Who for showing dedication, leadership, and excellence.

A doctorate student in counseling and education, a graduate student in counseling and disabilities, with an interest in art therapy, Ms. Phelan specializes [...]

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Texas Tech Graduate School Honors High-Quality Theses and Dissertations

The Graduate School announced awards that recognize the quality of work displayed in several theses and dissertations of graduate students.

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Former AG Teaching at Tech Despite Checkered Past

Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is now in Lubbock.  He’s preparing to begin his new job as a professor of political science and diversity recruiter at Texas Tech University.

KLBK had the chance to speak with the nation’s former top lawyer.  He says he has an intimate knowledge of what goes on when the White [...]

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Texas Tech SPICE to Open New Chess Park

The Texas Tech Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence (SPICE) will celebrate the opening of the TTU SPICE Chess park with a ribbon cutting on Monday.

The chess park, funded by an anonymous donor, is the first dedicated U.S. chess park at a university. The park is located between the Student Union Building and the University [...]

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Texas Tech Goes Mobile with Pay for Parking

Texas Tech University in Lubbock has implemented Verrus Mobile Technologies’ Pay by Phone service in its parking lots. The system was installed to help decrease the number of tickets drivers were receiving while reducing reliance solely on parking meters for collection of revenue.

The service allows users to pay for parking via credit card through their [...]