Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Patrick Hughes, chairman of the Department of Communications Studies named assistant dean for college programs for the College of Outreach and Distance Education.
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Texas Tech is among the top 15 percent of schools doing the most to embrace American’s veterans as students.
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Emergency management exercise for Texas Tech and Lubbock County will take place Aug. 19.
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Patrick Hughes will oversee operations and advising for the bachelor of general studies program.
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
A corn field owned by James and Patty Simpson of Shallowater is certainly the biggest “guns up” in recent Texas Tech memory.
Every year they put on a corn maze. This year, their son drew up Raider Red on a computer and they used GPS technology to cut out the design in the corn field.
From the air it looks [...]
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Thurman’s documentary “Smokey” follows Elvis impersonator in a small Texas Panhandle town.
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Move over California, Texas is the trendsetter in alternative energy. And much of the credit should go to Lubbock and Texas Tech University.
Earlier this year, I helped create the Innovate Texas Foundation to bring together inventors, investors, institutions and other interested parties in Texas’ future economy.
To ensure a strong economy in Texas for decades to [...]
Monday, August 17th, 2009
She is far and away the most popular figure in the Obama administration, but several recent moves by Michelle Obama could put some tarnish on her sterling public image.
“She is taking some risks,” said Cindy Rugeley, a political scientist at Texas Tech University.
As new figures released Friday showed the nation’s unemployment rate the highest in [...]
Monday, August 17th, 2009
In this week’s column, Rich Rice, Ph.D., associate professor in English at Texas Tech, interviews me, Gergely Antal, and Assistant Head Coach Paul Truong.
Gergely is an international chess master from Hungary who plays for the Knight Raiders at Tech. He was recruited by the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence, and two weeks ago in [...]
Friday, August 14th, 2009
The eleven new members will each serve four-year terms beginning Sept. 1.
Friday, August 14th, 2009
More tickets sold equals more scholarship money for the Tech Marketing Association.
Friday, August 14th, 2009
Tech Marketing Association students get a shot at major event promotion with Jeff Dunham performance.
Friday, August 14th, 2009
Texas Tech University Press has come out with the fourth edition of “Winning 42: Strategy and Lore of the National Game of Texas,” first published in 1997.
Written by Dennis Roberson of Fort Worth, a 42 champion himself, the award-winning paperback book ($15.95) offers useful information for the beginner and the veteran 42 player alike.
The new [...]
Friday, August 14th, 2009
In early July, when last we checked in with former attorney general Alberto “Fredo” Gonzales, he had finally landed a job at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. That — assuming he’s not indicted by special prosecutor Nora Dannehy, who’s investigating the firing of those U.S. attorneys — would be the end of his troubles, we [...]
Friday, August 14th, 2009
New cotton technology developed by the university’s International Center for Excellence in Agricultural Genomics and Biotechnology will have positive impact on fiber properties.
Friday, August 14th, 2009
An international study program at Texas Tech University has provided the seeds for what could become an art and architecture institute converting a war-torn district of Granada, Nicaragua, into a haven for tourists and developers.
Texas Tech College of Architecture students conceptualized the facility at the request of Nicaragua’s Minister of Tourism, Mario Salinas, during a [...]
Friday, August 14th, 2009
Texas Tech University Press announced their latest titles from the CSA series including M. de Garsault’s 1767 Art of the Shoemaker, An annotated Translation. I’m looking forward to reading it even if I don’t currently have any skills in shoe making.
Friday, August 14th, 2009
New board members important to future of Texas Tech System.
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
New institute could convert a war-torn district of Granada into a haven for tourists and developers.
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
An enemy missile has no strategic value if its computer is down. A high-power-microwave emitter can disable its electronics on the launchpad, leaving bystanders unharmed, and now Texas Tech University engineers have a plan to scale down the truck-size tech.
To make strong microwaves, you need a lot of electricity, usually from a bulky generator. Instead [...]
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