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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Texas Tech Announces 2009 Who’s Who Selections

Faculty, staff, family and friends of the recipients are invited to attend the 2009 Who’s Who Recognition Reception.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Dead dinosaurs Victims of bad luck vanished in a geological eyeblink

The Chicxulub crater, as it is known, may have been a mere aperitif. According to Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, the main course was served later. Chatterjee has found a bigger crater — much bigger — in India. His is 310 miles across. The explosion that caused it may have been 100 times the size of the one that created Chicxulub. He calls it Shiva, after the Indian deity of destruction.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Celebracion' exhibit part of Dia de los Muertos commemoration

Bell, director of the Texas Tech International Cultural Center, said that more than 600 visitors are expected to take part in Friday’s processional, which includes one-hour stops at three locations

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Texas Tech Meat Judging Team Secures Top Honors

The team defeated the competition by a 150-point margin and placed first in the beef grading, lamb judging, overall beef, pork judging and total reasons divisions.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

115 mln-yr-old pterosaur could not only walk and fly, but also sail across the sea

However, researchers at Texas Tech University, the University of Kansas and University of Florida have found that the animal’s strange body actually made it a mastery of nature’s drawing boards.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Safe trick-or-treating at the United Spirit Arena

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – Halloween is right around the corner and Texas Tech is hosting family friendly events this week to celebrate.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Indian gets award for decontamination wipe

A Texas Tech University researcher who developed a decontamination wipe to meet a critical need for the U.S. military received the Scientist of the Year award from the Lubbock chapter of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Episcopal church’s 1914 building gets distinction of oldest in Lubbock

Gary Smith, now associate dean in Texas Tech’s College of Architecture, helped sort out what the original building would have looked like.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Dallas County constables' growing ticketing said to boost safety - and county coffers

Texas Tech University law professor Charles Bubany, an authority on Texas criminal procedure, said that judges like to think that they’re engaged in rehabilitation and deterrence, but that traffic enforcement is “basically a revenue collection device.”

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Column - John Huffaker: Tech, Panhandle need Proposition 4

Texas voters can, with one vote, help Texas Tech University take another step toward becoming the next national research university and, at the same time, encourage economic development and improve higher education across the state.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Amendments deserve nod

This is a big one for Texas Tech University, which is vying with other universities to achieve Tier One research status. It won’t increase taxes, but will enable universities to dip into a $500 million dormant fund to reward universities for seeking to upgrade research programs.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

UW-Platteville Places Third at Regional Soils Competition

Only the top three teams qualified for the American Society of Agronomy National contest to be held in March 2009 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Princeton students express concern over grade quotas

Students hoping to get a leg up in the admissions process have learned to seek the Facebook pages of admissions counselors such as Adabel Estrella in the Texas Tech University office of admissions.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Odessa Animal Control: Yet to Sell Cats to Texas Tech for Experiments

Texas Tech University is not purchasing cats from Odessa Animal Control so far this year for experiments.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Man claiming to be sheriff threatens Tech fans with tickets

Someone claiming to be the Armstrong County Sheriff says he will write anyone a traffic ticket just for having a Texas Tech sticker on their car.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Con-way Inc. Announces 2009 Scholarship Winners

Whitney Kunze, Lorena, Texas: Texas Tech University

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

An unexpected sunrise: Artist, students create mosaic mural to shine light on neighborhood

Students enrolled in the program spend a semester in the field doing public art projects and interacting with the landscape throughout the Southwest. Chris Taylor, an architect teaching architecture at Lubbock’s Texas Tech University, also helps operate the program.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

History Channel - U.S. Cable

Thanks to research labs like the wind science center at texas tech university, the modern storm shelter is sturdier and more resistant to wind-blown debris.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Texas Tech Student Chosen for 2010 National Beef Ambassador Team

Participants were judged on the depth of their industry knowledge, impromptu, informative, verbal expression, composure, confidence, manners and appearance.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Texas Tech Student Chosen as Part of 2010 National Beef Ambassador Team

A Texas Tech University student was chosen as a National Beef Ambassador Contest winner at an event hosted Oct. 9-11 by the American National CattleWomen.

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