Archive for August, 2009
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Texas Tech University System Office of Technology Commercialization and Bayer CropScience have signed an exclusive licensing agreement to utilize a new cotton technology from the university’s International Center for Excellence in Agricultural Genomics and Biotechnology.
When fully developed and introgressed into commercial cotton seed lines, the technology is expected to have a significant positive impact on [...]
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Autumn Douthitt, a freshman at Montgomery Central High School, recently returned from being the Tennessee representative for the Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls (SPNI) chess tournament. Autumn finished the tournament in a tie for 8th place (19th overall) out of sixty competitors. She won four out of six games. Roy Manners, Director of the [...]
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Most everyone knows what happened to Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and even Santana, but what about the rest of the musicians who got their big break at Woodstock? On the eve of the festival’s 40th anniversary, USA TODAY catches up with a few who have enjoyed successful careers, not all of them in music.
CANNED HEAT
Woodstock [...]
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday he wishes he could ”do some things over” from his years with the Bush administration, citing a memo he wrote that human rights groups contended led to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq.
Gonzales said he made a mistake by using the words ”quaint” and ”the Geneva [...]
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Texas Tech University is hosting its annual membership recruitment party from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Aug. 20 in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Banquet Hall.
The event will feature entertainment, refreshments, door prizes and information about OLLI fall course offerings. Anyone 50 years of age and older is welcome [...]
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
New technology is expected to have a significant positive impact on cotton fiber properties.
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has signed on to teach for one year at Texas Tech University. Rich Matthews has the story.
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Having served as a mentor, coordinated mentoring programs, and led mentoring discussions at conferences over many years, I can attest to this simple truth: Professionals who are provided with helpful guidance avoid unnecessary mistakes and distracting anxieties and thereby do their best work.
Unfortunately, many individuals do not have access to personal mentoring. Therefore, in the [...]
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs grants continuing full accreditation for three counselor education programs.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
“The hardest thing for an adviser is to hit these people over the head with a reality check,” says Scott Ciullo, a retirement plan adviser at Raymond James Financial Services, Inc., in Marquette, Michigan, of talking these days with participants age 50 and older who fall far short of their retirement-savings targets. “These are hard [...]
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
The sixth edition of ATNT-09 (Advances in Textiles, Machinery, Nonwovens and Technical Textiles) is scheduled between December 7 and 9 at the Bannari Amman Institute of Technology (BIT) campus in Sathyamangalam.
This international conference is being organised jointly by the US-based Texas Tech University and BIT.
The conference would focus on finding solutions to some of the [...]
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
It’s taken more than two years, but Alberto Gonzales has finally found a job. On August 31, he starts teaching a political science class at Texas Tech University in Lubbock with a one-year appointment that a political friend, university chancellor Kent Hance, a former Democratic congressman turned Republican, wrangled for him. Curiously, the former attorney [...]
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Texas Tech University’s College of Education has received continuing full accreditation for three graduate degree programs in counselor education by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP).
The fully accredited programs include the community counseling master’s, school counseling master’s and counselor education and supervision doctoral degree.
“The College of Education is proud to [...]
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Texas Tech admissions Office is seeing an influx of applications from a group of prospective students who aren’t fresh out of high school.
FOX 34′s Wendy Skyler has the details on the big boom in vets cashing in on the new GI Bill.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Hundreds of summer grads take the final walk at the United Spirit Arena.
More than 1,200 tech students get those hard earned diploma’s in hand.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Nearly two decades is a long time to wait, a group of Texas Tech physicists who had a part in creating the world’s largest atom colliding machine can attest.
The physicists, called the High Energy Physics Group, have been working for about 18 years on the Large Hadron Collider, contributing a pair of energy measuring components.
The [...]
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
International Master Gergely Antal, a senior business major at Texas Tech and member of the Knight Raiders Chess Team, has won the 2009 U.S. Tournament of College Champions, which took place in Indianapolis.
Winning this prestigious national title was not an easy task as Gergely had to face three of UT Dallas’ top players, as well [...]
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Travel back in time starting at 11 a.m. on Aug. 29 at the Museum of Texas Tech, 3301 E. Fourth St.
This year, the museum staff is introducing Medieval and Renaissance life to citizens of the Hub City. Families and individuals will be able to explore culture, history and weaponry through a Renaissance festival and exhibit [...]
Monday, August 10th, 2009
International Master Gergely Antal wins 2009 United States Tournament of College Champions.
Monday, August 10th, 2009
Dennis Michaelis will oversee Texas Tech’s partnership with McLennan Community College and help expand the university’s presence around the state.
