Monday, August 10th, 2009
Perchlorate seems to be everywhere these days. It is in a lot of water supplies, in fruits and vegetables, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, and even on Mars.
That is good and bad news for the Defense Department and military contractors battling accusations that they have polluted groundwater with perchlorate, a primary component of rocket fuel.
Science was [...]
Monday, August 10th, 2009
Chess champion and Texas Tech chess institute founder Susan Polgar’s U.S. Chess Federation membership was revoked Friday.
The organization’s board of directors revoked her membership and her husband Paul Truong’s membership Friday in Indianapolis, Truong said. Polgar and Truong were elected members of the federation, each holding the title of board member-at-large, according to the federation’s [...]
Monday, August 10th, 2009
Texas Tech hopes to snag future Raiders at birth.
Under a legacy enrollment program presented to regents Friday morning, Texas Tech would woo the children of university donors with birthday cards, token gifts and even a Tech blanket for their crib. Legacy students may then receive scholarships and conditional guaranteed admission to the university when they [...]
Monday, August 10th, 2009
The first evaluation of alternative farming practices—based on changes in soil microbes—in the Texas High Plains has been done by an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist.
Soil microbiologist Veronica Acosta-Martinez has also done a similar analysis for land in USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a first nationally. Changes in microbes can give a relatively early indication [...]
Monday, August 10th, 2009
Title: “Lonestar Wildflowers, A Guide to Texas Flowering Plants” Book Signing
Location: McPherson Cellars
Description: Willa Finley, Lubbock resident and West Texas native, is co-author of “Lonestar Wildflowers, A Guide to Texas Flowering Plants,” published by Texas Tech University Press. Join the First Friday Art Trail at McPherson Cellars to meet Willa and her co-author, LaShara Nieland [...]
Monday, August 10th, 2009
Donald E. Powell, who served as the ancient federal coordinator of Gulf Coast rebuilding and chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., choice express at Texas Tech University’s undergraduate commencement ceremonies Saturday (Aug. 8). things turned brief at the United Spirit Arena, 1701 Indiana Ave.
More than 1,250 students choice get diplomas during the 9 a.m. [...]
Monday, August 10th, 2009
As the first Latino to have served as the attorney general, what are your thoughts as Sonia Sotomayor prepares to become the first Latina on the Supreme Court?
This is obviously a proud and historic moment for all Hispanics.
It has been two summers since you resigned, and you’re still living in Virginia?
I’ve got an [...]
Monday, August 10th, 2009
Renee Brosch honored by the Texas Supreme Court for her pro bono contributions to the underserved community.
Monday, August 10th, 2009
It’s a first for Texas Tech University, a national title in chess. Hungarian international master Gergely Antal, a senior at Texas Tech, took the 2009 title during the United States tournament of college champions. The Knight Raiders chess team member beat the defending national champion from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Texas Tech [...]
Monday, August 10th, 2009
Director of external college and community relations will begin on September 1.
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Record spring enrollment could mean higher fall enrollment numbers.
Friday, August 7th, 2009
The Knight Raiders chess team member beat the defending national champion and three International Masters.
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Perchlorate seems to be everywhere these days. It is in a lot of water supplies, in fruits and vegetables, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, and even on Mars.
That is good and bad news for the Defense Department and military contractors battling accusations that they have polluted groundwater with perchlorate, a primary component of rocket fuel.
The debate [...]
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Texas Tech business school students could pay new fees to cover the cost of constructing a building that has failed to entice donations.
Regents gave preliminary approval Thursday to a program charging students $18 for each class hour they spend in a new Rawls College of Business Administration building to help fund the $70 million project.
Students [...]
Friday, August 7th, 2009
A small group of Texas Tech University faculty members is objecting to the school’s hiring of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the grounds that he demonstrated ethical failings while in office.
Friday, August 7th, 2009
The Texas Tech System Board of Regents’ Finance and Administration Committee approved the 2010 operating budget on Thursday. The budget is up 7% from last year. To put that into perspective, it’s a $93 million increase.
This budget for 2010 includes salary increases for faculty and staff as well as money for research. “Our goal is to make [...]
Friday, August 7th, 2009
The potential for renewable energy in agriculture and eastern New Mexico’s contributions to biofuel efforts will be topics of interest at the annual field day at New Mexico State University’s Agricultural Science centre at Clovis.
The featured keynote speaker at the event on 18 August will be US Sen. Jeff Bingaman.
“This annual event is designed to [...]
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Texas Tech Law Graduate Earns State Pro Bono Award
A Texas Tech University School of Law graduate recently received a state award for her commitment to the provision of legal services to the poor.
The Texas Supreme Court’s Access to Justice Commission Law Student Pro Bono Award has been given to Renee Brosch, a May law graduate [...]
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Remember self-acclaimed US Top Cop Alberto ‘Speedy’ Gonzales (right)?
And ex-secretary of state Condoleezza Rice?
Guess what Speedy’s doing now?
He’s a “visiting professor” at Texas Tech University where he has a one-year contract for $100,000, “to teach a junior-level course on the executive branch, deliver guest lectures, and help recruit first-generation and minority students,” says the Chronicle [...]
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Keep Rowlett Beautiful has awarded two Paul Brunelle Memorial Scholarships to Rowlett residents.
KRB presented a scholarship to Charles Adam Brinkley, who attended Garland High School. He will attend Stephen F. Austin State University to earn a degree in forestry, focusing on wild life management. His ultimate goal is to work in the National or State [...]
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