Monday, December 21st, 2009

Mix of Lullaby and Massage Could Help Lull Toddlers to Sleep

A book that combines lullaby and massage could help children go to sleep.

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Texas Tech University in Abilene Adjusts Offerings to Meet Student Needs

Students can access credit hours for several other master’s degree programs through Texas Tech’s University College.

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Lust for the vampire

But if there is an epicentre of vampire studies, it appears to be Texas. Texas Tech University has a class called “The Vampire in East Europe and Western Culture”, which discusses the ways in which the vampire image has shifted to conform with social trends, especially in modern popular culture.

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Tech anthropologist works to save dying Comanche language

The language of the Comanche people, a lifeline of its culture, is fading fast.

Its muted vowels and sapient cadence once echoed throughout the fenceless grasslands of the South Plains, but today it can muster barely a whisper.

That’s why Texas Tech anthropologist Jeff Williams and a handful of other researchers have devised a plan that could [...]

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Oversight of student distress on agenda

New regulations giving Texas Tech administrators the authority to address students’ mental distress took one step toward final approval.

The proposed amendments to the Tech student handbook passed through a committee of the university system’s board of regents and will be up for final ratification today.

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Wind firm negotiations on moving to Abilene continue

No action was taken Thursday on a proposal to offer as much as $1.2 million in incentives to a wind blade repair company considering moving some operations to Abilene.

The DCOA voted unanimously to grant $50,000 to a new “startup wind initiative” with the goal of boosting collaborative research between the government, universities and the private [...]

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Storm Tracking Goes Hi-Tech

The 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season seemed as though it would be active, with Tropical Storm Ana, Tropical Storm Claudette and Hurricane Bill all forming and moving closer to the U.S. by the middle of August.  These were followed by an additional six tropical systems.  Thankfully, only one of these nine systems, Tropical Storm Claudette, made [...]

Friday, December 18th, 2009

TEXAS READS: The best Texas book title of the year

I listed Bill Neal’s latest book, “Sex, Murder and the Unwritten Law,” among my Top 10 favorites of 2009, but if there were an award for Most Compelling Texas Title of the Year, this would obviously be it. The subtitle is “Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style.”

In this collection (Texas Tech University Press, $29.95), Neal’s third [...]

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Phi Beta Kappa Chapter Receives Top Honors

Phi Beta Kappa chapter ranked one of the very best in the country; puts Texas Tech among the nation’s elite liberal arts and sciences programs.

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Time to Quit Your Job? Some Tips From an Ancient Chinese Philosopher

Philosophy professor Howard Curzer on his paper “Take Your Job and Shove it: Mencius on Resigning and the Doctrine of the Mean.”

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Texas Tech’s Phi Beta Kappa Chapter Receives Top Honors from National Society

Lambda of Texas, the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Texas Tech, was one of only 22 chapters to receive the rating.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

More than just a Franciscan friar

Young has been research coordinator for the Texas Tech University Air Quality Research Monitoring Operations in the area since March 2005.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Community banks paying price for behemoths' financial missteps

Scott Hein, director of the Texas Tech School of Banking in Lubbock, said the new payment plan couldn’t come at a worse time for our jobless recovery.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Choose trees for easy growing indoors

Cynthia McKenney, an associate professor of horticulture at Texas Tech University, also endorses the weeping fig, rubber plant and the dracaenas, although she points out that spider mites can become an issue with the latter.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Green movement grows at Tech

Right now it’s just a pit in the north end of campus, but the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration may be a harbinger of changing times at Texas Tech.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Irrigation's economic impact is not a dry issue

“Irrigation is a primary fuel source for the region’s economic engine,” said Dr. Darren Hudson, who conducted the study and is the Larry Combest Endowed Chair in Agricultural Competitiveness, as well as director of the Cotton Economics Research Institute at Texas Tech University.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Lego class sparks engineering interest

The club rents Lego kits from Texas Tech University, where Harnar was trained over the summer in all things Lego. She is a high school algebra teacher who needed to renew her teaching credentials, and she chose to do so by taking a class in Lego robotics at Texas Tech.

The university is one of only [...]

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Texas' editorial roundup for the week of Dec. 14

But it’s not clear that Gonzales — who resigned in 2007 and now is helping Texas Tech University recruit more minority students — learned at all.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Column - Darren Hudson: Water policy: Get it right, and conserve

Darren Hudson occupies the Larry Combest Chair of Agricultural Competitiveness at Texas Tech University’s Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Editorial: Colleges need new paths for more to graduate

That’s why we hope Texas legislators continue increasing investments in the state’s community colleges. They are more affordable for many families and potentially closer to home, while offering students a chance to get the basics before paying more for upper-level courses at a University of Texas, Texas Tech or Texas A&M.