Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – Texas Tech Police are searching for a suspect in last week’s attack on a female student. Tech Police say the student was walking on campus around 10 p.m. last Thursday night when she was attacked.
Texas Tech immediately released a Tech Alert to all students, faculty, and staff on the attack, and [...]
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Students work with Nicaragua’s Minister of Tourism to conceptualize a new private art and architecture institute in a war-torn district of Granada.
Monday, September 14th, 2009
The fact that the state’s seven emerging universities came up with more than $50 million in donations over the short summer months to claim a pot of matching state funds speaks volumes about the support for higher education in our state.
Texas Tech had announced they raised $50.6 million.
Monday, September 14th, 2009
A Texas Tech freshman hit his head on a diving board this summer and fell unconscious to the bottom of the pool, convulsing under 12 feet of water.
Sarah Martin, a lifeguard on duty at the university’s leisure pool that June evening, saw the student hit his head as he tried a back flip, and she [...]
Monday, September 14th, 2009
New incentives for growing Texas research universities proved “wildly successful,” but ambitious schools need big gains in research faculty to help convince legislators to keep up the investment in two years, a key author of the incentives said Thursday.
State Rep. Dan Branch, D-Dallas, said tight budgets and no more stimulus money could make some of [...]
Monday, September 14th, 2009
Gov. Rick Perry said today that he wasn’t involved in Mark Griffin’s decision to resign from the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents.
Monday, September 14th, 2009
A woman was attacked near Urbanovsky Park on Texas Tech campus shortly before 10 p.m. Thursday.
The suspect was described as a “skinny white male,” in his late 20s to early 30s, according to Tech police.
Monday, September 14th, 2009
LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – Just a few days after Governor Rick Perry denied any involvement in the recent resignation of Texas Tech Regent Mark Griffin, another former Regent says this is not the first time the Governor’s Office has tried to pressure a Regent’s resignation.
“It looks like a pattern, and the pattern is you know, if [...]
Monday, September 14th, 2009
Lubbock — A recently patented chemical additive could make old antibiotics effective again against resistant bacteria, a Texas Tech researcher said.
A short chain of nucleic acid, called an aptamer, can stop antibiotic-resistant bacteria from breaking down antibiotics, said Robert Shaw, associate chairman of Texas Tech’s Department of Chemistry.
Monday, September 14th, 2009
More than 100 cases of flu reported at University Medical Center in Lubbock this season are believed to be the H1N1 virus strain that emerged this spring, a hospital official said.
Six students at Texas Tech also were diagnosed with the flu in the last several days, university spokeswoman Sally Post said. Post said the university [...]
Monday, September 14th, 2009
Fall lineup includes bestselling author Jeannette Walls and up-and-coming jazz vocalist Rachael Price.
Monday, September 14th, 2009
Texas Tech takes top two spots at 75th annual Southwest Open in Fort Worth.
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Student Access and Success Partnership opens doors for both Texas Tech and WTC, and allows for a seamless transfer process for students between schools.
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Texas Tech linguistics professor Andrew Farley’s new book delves into the truth of Jesus’ teachings and challenges common misconceptions in modern English.
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Arrrrhhh, me hearties. International Talk Like a Pirate Day is Sept. 19, the day we play those land-lovin’ Longhorns, so be sendin’ a video tellin’ why you love Mike Leach’s swashbucklin’ ways.
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Students enrolled in restaurant, hotel and institutional management classes gain real-life experience at the Overton Hotel and Conference Center.
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Many antibiotics in our arsenal are becoming practically useless, as bacteria breed resistance to them. But researchers at Texas Tech University and Baylor University have developed a chemical additive that could make old drugs useful again.
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Texas Tech’s 2009 Presidential Lecture & Performance Series to feature a bestselling author and a jazz vocalist.
Friday, September 11th, 2009
“The Midwest climate is already changing,” Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University and a co-author of the report, said in a statement.
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