Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Wind Center Director Makes Case for Federal Funds

Texas Tech wind science expert helps federal officials better understand the need to fund research into alternative energies.

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Car Clinic and Safety Fair Provides Free Services

University Parking Services partners with Scott’s Complete Car Care to educate and inform the Texas Tech community.

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Field Day set for July 21 on Texas Tech research farm

LUBBOCK – Texas AgriLife Research and the plant and soil science department at Texas Tech University at Lubbock will conduct a safflower production field day beginning at 10 a.m. July 21 at Texas Tech’s research farm in Lubbock.

The farm is located in Lubbock at 2nd Street and Quaker.

“We think that winter and spring safflower has [...]

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Lubbock native says 'I do' on national TV

The vows have been spoken, the first dance is over, the bouquet has been tossed.

Lubbock native Leigh Daniel is now Mrs. Cordes.

She and her husband, Nick, married Wednesday morning under the gaze of about six million people. The couple, former track stars who now coach the sport at Ohio’s Ashland University, won a vineyard-themed wedding [...]

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

New Chess Champion to be Crowned at Texas Tech University

The sixth, annual Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls (SPNI), which is the most prestigious all-girls national championship in the United States, will take place July 26-31, 2009 at the Frazier Alumni Pavilion on the Texas Tech University (TTU) campus in Lubbock, Texas.

To be eligible to play, each state can nominate one talented young female [...]

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Texas wine industry continues growth

The Texas wine industry has quite a storied past.

In the 1860s Spanish missionaries began cultivating grapes near present day El Paso. In 1883, Frank Qualia founded the Val Verde Winery in Del Rio, the oldest bonded winery still in operation today.

Texas viticulturist Thomas Munson is credited with saving the European wine industry. Munson developed and [...]

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Column: Gonzales hiring at Texas Tech a curious move

Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch. It seems a bit ironic this is the name of the course former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will teach at Texas Tech this fall. But understand for just a minute how perfect Gonzales is to teach this class. If anyone knows of the issues facing the president of the [...]

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

JACK COWAN: Will West Texas catch Gonzales' falling star?

There was a time when Alberto Gonzales, not Sonia Sotomayor, looked like a good bet to become America’s first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.

It was early in George W. Bush’s presidency and Gonzales, who had been Bush’s lawyer when he was Texas governor and later Bush’s appointee to the state Supreme Court, seemed well-positioned as Bush’s [...]

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Leigh and Nick get married today on TODAY

The Today Show has taken care of every detail to make sure the wedding of Leigh Daniels and Nick Cordes is special.  The big day is finally here.

In fact, you may have contributed in this very special day for them. The TODAY show allowed you to vote for Leigh Daniel and Nick Cordes in the [...]

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Expert urges Congress to fund wind power research

A Texas professor urged members of Congress to drive a growing Big Country industry by funding wind-energy research.

Vital initiatives from building a better turbine to honing wind forecasting stand to benefit from a federal proposal to pump $200 million annually into research and development for wind power, Andrew Swift, director of the Wind Science and [...]

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Texas Tech Wind Expert Testifies at House Hearing on Wind and Solar Energy

Hearing will focus on legislation to increase federal funding of wind and solar research.

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Texas Tech on course to earn coveted tier one designation

The Texas Legislature has given Texas Tech and six other universities an unparalleled opportunity to become the state’s next national research universities. House Bill 51 sets out criteria that must be met to achieve national research, or tier one, status and establishes two funding sources that will help Texas Tech and the other emerging research [...]

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Tech official: Gonzales' pay not unusual

While inviting embattled former attorney general Alberto Gonzales to join Texas Tech’s faculty has raised more than a few eyebrows, university officials said Monday there is no reason for his compensation package to cause a stir.

According to Tech Provost Bob Smith, Gonzales’ $100,000 paycheck is on-par with the amount paid to other university employees who [...]

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Hectic schedule has Daniel, fiance on run

Because of their hectic schedule with NBC’s “Today Show,” Leigh Daniel and Nick Cordes have taken to running through Central Park and Times Square

“We’ve run a couple of times at four in the morning,” Daniel said. “There’s hardly anyone out, no cars to speak of. It’s an interesting feeling, to run through Times Square when [...]

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

College campuses seek balance when views collide

They call it Speakers’ Circle, a First Amendment gathering spot at the University of Missouri where just about anything goes.

Confrontational evangelists condemn abortion and gay marriage. Conservative students bash President Obama’s bailout plan. The rhetoric is heated, and the discussions not always polite.

College campuses have long been hotbeds of activism, from Vietnam War protests a [...]

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Editorial: Will students learn from Gonzales' mistakes?

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been hired to teach a political science course this fall at Texas Tech. Like his tenure in Washington, this new job – lecturing on “Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch” – is generating controversy.Two years after he quit as attorney general, Gonzales remains a toxic figure. He has told [...]

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Hiring Coup or Tainted Hire?

On August 1, Alberto Gonzales will start working at Texas Tech University, where he will teach a seminar in political science while helping the university (and Angelo State University) recruit and retain first generation college students. In announcing the appointment last week, Texas Tech officials praised his “experience” and “expertise,” noting the important legal jobs [...]

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Texas Tech University Hosts First of its Kind Virtual Open House at CollegeWeekLive

Texas Tech University hosted the higher education market’s first ever virtual open house, a dedicated afternoon which showcased the school for interested prospective students. The virtual open house, held at CollegeWeekLive, included live video presentations featuring Texas Tech representatives from admissions, financial aid, and housing, as well as the academics associate vice provost. In addition, [...]

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Understanding History of Southeast Asia’s Island Rainforests Crucial to Understanding Impact of Human Deforestation

After studying a million years of forest evolution on Southeast Asian islands, a Texas Tech University plant biologist said human deforestation and future climate change may add insult to injury for species in an already precarious situation.

Chuck Cannon, lead investigator for the study, said his team studied how changes in climate and sea levels affected [...]

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Texas Tech Press Author to Tell Tales of Old Tascosa

Author Frederick Nolan will sign copies of his new book, “Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times,” July 20 in Amarillo.