Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Physics Professors Earn Grant to Study Non-Traditional Teaching Methods

Beth Thacker and Kelvin Cheng received $809,700 from the National Institutes of Health to research teaching practices.

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Family-Friendly Halloween Activities Scheduled

Texas Tech University will host Halloween events for community members this week.

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Texas Tech Meat Judging Team Secures Top Honors at Eastern National

The Texas Tech University Meat Judging Team successfully began its fall judging season with a win on Oct. 3 in Wyalusing, Pa.

In the contest, 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.

Individually, the team also brought home [...]

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Alternative dino-killer theory lands with a thud

Have we been missing the real killer of the dinosaurs? This week, Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University told the Geological Society of America that the fatal blow was struck by a 40-kilometre object that blasted a 500-km hole into the continental shelf west of India, called the Shiva structure (see National Geographic News story).

Monday, October 26th, 2009

INFRE Certified Retirement Counselor Accreditation Distinguishes Retirement Planning Professionals

InFre Certified Retirement Counselor program receives national Accreditation. Combine the current economic crisis with the fact that there are 78 million Boomers getting ready to retire over the next 18 years, and the result is a whole new world for retirement planning professionals.

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Safe Room Expert Views New Mounds Elementary

MOUNDS, OK — Texas Tech University’s Ernst Keisling, a pioneer in above-ground storm shelters is getting a first-hand look at a school that has built safe rooms for its students.

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Symposium covers marbling from all angles

This summer an American Society of Animal Science symposium focused on getting the most meat quality with maximum efficiency.

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Texas Tech Reaches Top 20 in use of Historically Underutilized Businesses

The use of HUB vendors has dramatically increased from 3.5 to 27.63 perecent in the last six years.

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Education Team Travels to Uganda

A team of eight educators and students from Texas Tech University’s Virginia Murray Sowell Center for Research and Education in Sensory Impairment will make a nearly two-week trek to the African country of Uganda, Oct. 20-31.

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Flirt away, it's all in the name of healthy jealousy

According to Sybil L. Hart, a professor at Texas Tech University’s Department of Human Development and Family Studies, who pulled together contributions from a variety of scientific sources for the forthcoming Handbook of Jealousy , this answer is yes. Long ago, she tells me, jealousy was an accepted part of a relationship, usually settled by duels.

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Texas Tech Hosts Family Friendly Halloween Activities

Texas Tech University will host family friendly Halloween events Wednesday and Thursday (Oct. 28 and 29) for community members.

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Attorney to Visit Texas Tech, Speak about Ethics

A former attorney with the Department of Health and Human Services will visit Texas Tech University Oct. 27-28 to speak about the responsible conduct of research and ethics.

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Editorial: Prop 4 to aid Panhandle

One of them is Texas Tech University, which is seeking to attain Tier One status, which would enable the state to invest unprecedented amounts of money in research

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Major Growth

Texas Tech University has more than 39,000 students and 18,000 faculty / staff from over 100 countries. The main campus in Lubbock, Texas has 30,049 students. Texas Tech also many other locations such as San Angelo, El Paso, Spain, and Germany, etc. It is expected to be designated as a tier one university soon.

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Flying reptile was configured like sailing boat

“Their design is very similar to a sailing ship, but nobody had come up with the idea that they could actually sail like a sailing boat,” said Sankar Chatterjee, a geoscientist at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, USA.

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

I am become Death, destroyer of worlds

According to Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, the main course was served later. Dr Chatterjee has found a bigger crater—much bigger—in India. His is 500km 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.

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Technique Could Improve Accuracy of Child Testimony

Sarah Kulkofsky, an assistant professor in Texas Tech’s Department of Human Development and Family Studies, presented preliminary findings at the biennial conference of the Cognitive Development Society in San Antonio.

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

History becomes art

Paired with traditional drawing and painting techniques, “Blue Prints reminds us of invention in the oldest sense: the use of what is already available; the making of something not wholly new, but rather composed of past ideas or elements or images,” wrote Jennifer Snead, Ph.D., in the exhibition catalogue. Snead is an assistant professor of English at Texas Tech University where Flueckiger teaches.

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Texas Wine Month drawing to a close

Another component of what makes the Texas Wine Industry great is the educational aspects. Grayson Community College in Denison hosts an Associates’ Degrees in winemaking. In addition, they host a monthly extension outreach program at various locations throughout the state at various wineries and host centers. Texas Tech University in Lubbock now has a Bachelor’s Degree in Oenology

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Petroleum Engineering Receives $42.5 Million Software Donation

Schlumberger donates $42.5 million in software to help prepare students for the work force.