Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
A recently published joint study by Texas Tech University and Texas A&M University found that wines produced in Texas share the anti-cancer traits known for wines from other regions.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
“The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder” is published by Texas Tech University Press under its Great Plains series, which is edited by University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor of history and journalism, John R. Wunder. It traces 130 years of shared history between two communities, the Oglala Lakotas of the Pine Ridge Reservation, S.D., and the border towns of Sheridan County.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Biologist Robert Baker, of Texas Tech University, was among the first to report that Chernobyl had become a wildlife haven. He has taken research teams to the region more than 30 times since the early 1990s.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
He said collaboration with scientists at Texas Tech will help evaluate the fruit. “We may look at producing a small quantity of wine.”
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Verett says the spirit of cooperation that has been a key part of the center’s focus for decades is instrumental in many of the innovations. He said Texas Tech, USDA, and the AgriLife Extension and Research teams all coordinate efforts to find solutions for High Plains challenges.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Even though Jazz Summers is autistic, she is a musician and student at the University of Central Arkansas. She and her mom have written a book called “Autism is Not a Life Sentence,” and they are inviting you to join an interactive discussion Wednesday morning from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Texas Tech Allen Theater.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Lubbock’s Chamber of Commerce urged voters to approve a state constitutional amendment that would boost Texas Tech’s efforts to improve the university’s research profile.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Video footage from the recent Knight Raiders chess tournament at Carlsbad Caverns, which was hosted by the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University says a giant basin in India called Shiva could also be an impact crater from the time of the dinosaurs’ demise, and the crash that created it may have been the cause of the mass extinction scientists call the KT (Cretaceous–Tertiary) event.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Meanwhile, the ballot for voters across Texas includes Proposition 4, an amendment to allow for the creation of more Tier One universities in Texas from among 7 “Emerging Research Universities,” including Texas Tech.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Tapejara, a native coastal dweller of what is now Brazil, was an excellent flyer that also had an innate nautical knowledge of sailing, said Sankar Chatterjee, Horn Professor of Geosciences and curator of paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Rob Weiner, who lectures on the history of horror cinema at Texas Tech University Libraries, said these attractions provided something movies can’t — an in-your-face experience.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Actually training a man to “sound” like a woman is enormously difficult and doesn’t have much to do with pitch, according to a paper by James Dembowski, a researcher at Texas Tech University in San Antonio.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Authors of A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions are a husband and wife team; Katharine Hayhoe is a climate researcher who focuses on global warming’s regional impacts, and who shares the 2007 Nobel Peace prize with Al Gore and the IPCC; and her husband Andrew Farley is an evangelical minister.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Rachael Price, a talented jazz vocalist, will perform at 7 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Allen Theatre in the Student Union Building.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Burkhart Center welcomes Lynley and Jazz Summers, authors of “Autism is Not a Life Sentence.”
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Texas Tech University will test its TechAlert emergency communications system and sirens at 10:50 a.m. Oct. 20.
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Texas Tech paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee discovers that ancient flying dinosaur also sailed the seas.
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Texas Tech paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee discovers that ancient flying dinosaur Tapejara wellnhoferi not only could walk and fly, but also could sail across the sea.
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University and a team of researchers took a close look at the massive Shiva basin, a submerged depression west of India that is intensely mined for its oil and gas resources.
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