Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Students Honored During Summer 2009 Commencement

Donald E. Powell to keynote summer commencement ceremony.

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Cielo to use Samsung's first wind turbines

Cielo Wind Power announced Wednesday it will install and operate the first three wind turbines produced by South Korean powerhouse Samsung Heavy Industries.

Austin-based Cielo has developed four wind farms in the region, and Samsung is most noted for building ships.

Cielo will install the turbines, with serial numbers 1, 2 and 3, by 2011 near Lubbock, [...]

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Students Honored During Summer 2009 Commencement

More than 1,250 students will receive diplomas at summer graduation.

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Tuition raises could fund pay hike for faculty

Texas Tech leaders could spend the bulk of the steepest tuition increase in years on raises for faculty and staff under a budget up for approval this week.

Tech’s board of regents will look at a billion-dollar budget when they convene on campus this morning. Better competing for faculty and high-performing students and shoring up research [...]

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Back to School Fiesta Gets Families Ready for School

Local students and their families learn about higher education opportunities at Texas Tech as they prepare for the new school year.

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

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

Cheerleaders and Pom Squad receive full paid bid to National Championships in Daytona Beach.

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Texas Tech Named a Best in the West College by the Princeton Review

Students rate their own universities based on academic, social and campus life.

Wednesday, August 5th, 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.

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

International Cotton School Brings Pros to Lubbock

Intensive two-week session emphasizes cotton production and high-volume instrument technology.

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Back to School Fiesta Gets Families Ready for School

The three-hour event provides free school supplies, college resources, free food and entertainment.

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Texas Tech named ''Best in the West'' college

Texas Tech has been named a “Best in the West” college by The Princeton Review, a New York-based company that sells testing and other educational materials.

Tech is featured on the company’s Web site, “2010 Best Colleges: Region by Region.”

The company uses several criteria including asking students to rate their own schools on several issues — [...]

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Texas Tech to get four million dollars from Senate bill

Kay Bailey Hutchison announced Tuesday the Senate approved the Fiscal Year 2010 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill.

The measure includes four million dollars for Texas Tech agriculture projects. Hutchison says the funding will help Texas Tech research to expand cotton production and trade. The measure will now be reconciled [...]

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

New GI Bill applicants up 20 percent at Texas Tech

The GI Bill has been good to Kyle Mallette.

After returning from Army service in Iraq two years ago, the Texas Tech finance major used the government assistance program for soldiers to get through college.

“I make more money going to school than I would working,” Mallette said with a laugh.

For millions of service men and women [...]

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

1st National Championship for Texas Tech

Hungarian IM Gergely Antal, a senior at Texas Tech University, has just won the 2009 United States Tournament of College Champions. He is the official representative of Texas Tech University at this event. He is also the first titled player to join SPICE.

Winning this prestigious national title was not an easy task as he had [...]

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Long-Time Museum Executive Director Retires

Museum of Texas Tech Executive Director Gary Edson leaves after 25 years of service to the university.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Titles with Texas ties range from mysteries to money

The number of new books the Chronicle receives each month is stupefying.
On average, 40 new titles enter the building every single weekday. That’s 200 packages to tear open each week and 200 decisions to make: Keep it? Review it? Donate it? Or — and this is what usually happens — put it in a pile [...]

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Correction: Texas Tech-Gonzales

In a July 30 story about a Texas Tech faculty petition opposing the hiring of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, The Associated Press reported erroneously that university Chancellor Kent Hance was a Republican former congressman. Hance served in Congress as a Democrat for three terms. He switched parties after leaving office in 1985.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Texas Tech Professor Receives NSF Career Grant

Professor Michael Mayer’s research focuses on developing new, more flexible plastic materials.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Federal official to speak at Tech commencement

Donald Powell, who served as a federal coordinator for hurricane rebuilding, will speak this weekend at Texas Tech’s graduation ceremony.

More than 1,250 students will receive diplomas at the Saturday ceremony that begins at 9 a.m. at the United Spirit Arena, 1701 Indiana Ave.

President George W. Bush named Powell the federal coordinator of Gulf Coast Rebuilding [...]

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Sustainable agriculture at the ESA Annual Meeting

Advances in ecology increasingly reveal that conventional agricultural practices have detrimental effects on the landscape ecology, creating problems for long-term sustainability of crops. In a series of sessions at the Ecological Society of America’s Annual Meeting, ecologists will present their ideas on how our agricultural practices can take lessons from natural environments.

Reduced tilling improves soil [...]