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Archive for November, 2009

Fort Hood Shooting suspect's attorney speaks out

“In this case, it’s almost certain to be a General Court Martial, which includes sentences all the way up to and including death,” said former military attorney Richard Rosen, who’s now a professor at Texas Tech University.

Couple's book tackles evangelicals' questions on climate change

Katharine Hayhoe and her husband, Andrew Farley, the pastor of a nondenominational church in Lubbock, Texas, decided to answer the questions in a new book from religious publisher FaithWords, “A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-based Decisions.”

Environment-inspired comes to Mid-Valley

Waters is an art professor at Texas Tech University, where she teaches sculpture and drawing. She earned her Masters of Fine Art in Clay/Sculpture from Indiana University. Her work can be found in art collections at The Institute of Contemporary Ceramic Art in Shigaragi, Japan, Southwestern Bell, Compaq Computers, and the Texas Tech University Museum.

Dinosaur whodunit: Is Shiva crater the missing link?

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. Chatterjee’s hypothesis is that the crater, named Shiva, fast forwarded the extinction of dinosaurs.

Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing

Micah Green, a Texas Tech University professor, helped co-author the jounral “Nature Nanotechnology.”

Minding Your Pain

The study, conducted by Patrick Randolph, Ph.D., at Texas Tech University, combined the mindful therapy of yoga and meditation with traditional medical treatment among chronic pain sufferers and found that the one-two punch was superior to medicine alone.

Rawls College of Business Hosts CEO of Bizideo.tv

Texas Tech University’s Rawls College of Business Administration will
host Bill Pelton, CEO of Bizideo.tv, at its Chief Executives’ Roundtable Speaker Series.

Texas Tech Researcher’s Partnership with Chemists in Northern Ireland, Italy Finds Ionic Liquid’s Makeup Measurably Non-Uniform at the Nanoscale

Researchers find that parts of ionic liquids at the nanoscopic level were not uniform.

Texas Tech Professor Appointed to State of Texas Workgroup

Jeffrey Wherry will contribute to a project that addresses the needs of children and families, especially those impacted by child abuse and domestic violence.

Texas Tech University Press Book Wins Two Awards

A book published by Texas Tech University Press has won two Nebraska Book Festival Awards.

War Correspondent, "We Were Soldiers" Author to Visit Texas Tech

Joe Galloway co-authored the book “We Were Soldiers Once … and Young,” which was adapted into the movie “We Were Soldiers,” starring Mel Gibson.

Cotton drawing Texas, India closer

For Dr. Seshadri Ramkumar, manager of the NonWoven and Advanced Materials Laboratory at the Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University, now is the perfect time to bring Texas cotton farmers and the textile industry in India together.

Dinosaur whodunit: Is Shiva crater the missing link?

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,

Chicago-Kent "lawyers up" at Illinois ALA competition

A blog by Robert Sherwin, director of Advocacy programs at Texas Tech’s Schools of Law.

Law Grads Best in Texas on Bar Exam

Texas Tech University School of Law led all Texas law schools on the July Bar Examination.

Texas Tech Law Grads Top Texas Law Schools on July Bar Examination

Highest percentage of students pass first-time test than any other law school.

FLDS TRIAL: All eyes still on Jessop, for now

Those other cases will depend on “the facts and circumstances” in each one, said Dan Benson, a Texas Tech University law professor. The other 11 FLDS men facing charges might, at this point, consider plea deals, depending upon what might be offered, said Arnold Loewy, a Texas Tech University law professor and criminal law expert.

Thousands of species adapt to extreme conditions of Llano Estacado

Playas are found everywhere on the Llano Estacado. Texas Tech professors produced a map of the more than 20,000 playas found in the region.

Prop 4 money years away

The emerging research universities — UNT, the University of Texas at Arlington, UT-Dallas, Texas Tech University, the University of Houston, UT-El Paso and UT-San Antonio — would need to meet a laundry list of criteria before the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board would grant the funds.

Couple's book tackles evangelicals' questions on climate change

Texas Tech professor Katharine Hayhoe and her husband, Andrew Farley, co-author “A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-based Decisions.”