Archive for November, 2009
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Texas Tech University’s Livestock Judging Team was crowned national champions at the 2009 North American International Livestock Exposition Nov. 17 in Louisville, Ky.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
A group of 1967 Lee High School graduates — ex-Marines all — are seeking help to beef up a Texas Tech University scholarship fun for one of their own — Medal of Honor winner George H. O’Brien.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Reckner is also founding director of the Vietnam Center and Archive of Texas Tech University.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
The Texas Tech Federal Credit Union received two first place awards this month for its marketing efforts.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Texas Tech’s student government has a non-voting body of student organizations that advocates student government for change and access to money, said Joe Sangirardi, University College district representative.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Clint Cannon of Waller, who will head into the National Finals with a commanding lead in the world bareback riding title race, won the Stampede. Former NFR qualifier Wes Stevenson, a former Texas Tech star who lives in Lubbock, finished fourth in the bareback riding average.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
The three men, it should go without saying, are die-hard pirates and their state-of-the-art rig one-ups most — if not all — competition in the world of on-campus tailgating at Texas Tech.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
After years of researching, developing, designing and planning, Carter Aviation Technologies marked a major milestone Tuesday.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
A Texas Tech linguist begins a journey to preserve and teach the Comanche language.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Texas Tech University’s Meat Judging Team earned the national championship title at the American Meat Science Association’s International Meat Judging Contest held Nov. 15 in Dakota City, Neb.
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Scientists hope the $10 billion Large Hadron Collider and Compact Muon Solenoid will prove the existence of matter’s smallest building blocks.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Nural Akchurin tells why research into matter’s smallest building blocks is important.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Erin Collopy, associate professor of classical and modern languages and literatures, can discuss the transition from vampires of mythology to the modern, sensitive and more seductive vampire.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Newswise — A team of Texas Tech University physics researchers involved with the CERN experiment is available to speak to the media as scientists prepare to test the particle beam of the world’s largest particle collider deep beneath the Swiss Alps.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
After a morning break, Thomas Parsons, a forensics pathologist at Texas Tech University, was called to the witness stand.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
The scenario above is not the figment of some scriptwriter’s imagination. Instead, it is the essence of a theory put forward by Sankar Chatterjee, a professor at Texas Tech University, to explain why dinosaurs became extinct almost 65 million years ago.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
A former Army staff judge advocate and military law expert at Texas Tech University suggests that it could take about two years to go to the military equivalent of a trial, depending on the defendant’s health. And the outcome of the case would likely end up mired in complex appeals.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Shortly after Chatterjee joined Texas Tech University here as curator of palaeontology 30 years ago, he heard about the possibility that ranches around the town of Post, near Lubbock, may be the key to unlocking mysteries about some animal species that became extinct millions of years ago.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
UNF’s hand-tooled, shop-made robot faced heavyweight challengers from schools such as Texas Tech and Notre Dame.
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
SAN ANTONIO — Kailee Wegehaupt and Lindsey Terrill are advanced sixth-grade students at La Vernia Middle School. They are so proficient in math, both tested to skip sixth grade math. They enrolled in “Credit by Exam” through Texas Tech University. Students who score a 90 or above can skip a grade in the subject tested.