Monday, May 31st, 2010

Biologists Discover Secret of Success For Mysterious Caribbean Bats

Research has uncovered what was necessary for an uncommon hybrid species of bats to thrive where other mammal hybrids have failed.

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Texas Tech Researchers Discover Secret of Success For Mysterious Hybridized Caribbean Bats

Sometime in the last 30,000 years or so, two separate bat species colonized the Caribbean and converged on islands in the southern Lesser Antilles. One came from Mexico while the other traveled from northern South America.

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Judson Maynard Summer Carillon Series Plays Again

The series will include 10 outdoor musical performances by seven carillonneurs for the Texas Tech and Lubbock community.

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Short-Lived Series Shows Comics Struggled with Strong Female Characters

The ill-fated series Night Nurse provides a glimpse at how the comic book industry struggled to utilize strong female characters, says a Texas Tech librarian.

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Texas Tech Expert: Oil Spill Could Cause Population Problems for Endangered/Threatened Animals

Celine Godard-Codding, is keeping a close eye on endangered species and how they are affected by what has now been dubbed the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

Friday, May 28th, 2010

2010 Judson Maynard Summer Carillon Series

The Texas Tech University School of Music announces the Summer Carillon Recital Series featuring the refurbished Baird Memorial Carillon located in the west bell tower of the Administration Building.

A carillon concert will take place every Sunday at 8 p.m. from June 6 to Aug. 1. In conjunction with the Fourth on Broadway celebration, a special [...]

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Hurricane Season May Be "Extremely Active"

The U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast should brace for a potentially “extremely active” hurricane season, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 2010 Atlantic forecast, released Thursday.

NOAA warned of added risk from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, saying a hurricane storm surge could bring ”discernable deposits” of oil even farther ashore along the Gulf [...]

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Short-Lived Series Shows Comics Struggled with Strong Female Characters

Night Nurse lasted only four issues despite strong writing and ER-worthy plots.

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Texas Tech Professors Receive Distinguished National Science Foundation Grants

Aranya Chakrabortty, John Schroeder and Ronald Hedden are receiving nearly $770,000 to further their research with synchrophasors, engineering designs against thunderstorm winds and the elasticity of polymers.

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Three Texas Tech Professors Receive NSF Grants

Three Texas Tech University professors have been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation.

Aranya Chakrabortty, John Schroeder and Ronald Hedden are receiving nearly $770,000 to further their research in various areas.

Chakrabortty, an assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering, received nearly $300,000 to investigate how the complicated behavior of large power grids can be efficiently [...]

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Texas Tech Announces New Dean of College of Arts & Sciences

Interim Dean Lawrence Schovanec will become the next dean of the college on June 1.

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Texas Tech Officials Announce New Dean of College of Arts & Sciences

Interim Dean Lawrence Schovanec becomes the next dean of the College of Arts & Sciences effective June 1.

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

History Professors Sculpt Future of International Relations

Ron Milam and Justin Hart spread their knowledge to Vietnam’s educators in an intensive five-day course.

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

A Circle of Many Memories

An area of remembrance, Memorial Circle has been a part of campus since the beginning, but its role has expanded to include memorials for many people.

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Researchers hope cotton might be oil spill answer

As the Gulf Coast continues to experience a “crude awakening” a Texas Tech scientist burns the midnight oil to turn West Texas cotton into the fabric that saves lives.

“My lab focuses on cotton for industrial products where the margin will be higher,” says Ramkumar.

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Hutchison makes campaign stop in Hub City

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison stumped in the Hub City on Thursday during a five-city sweep through West Texas in her quest for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

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Hutchison spoke to a room full supporters about the need to stimulate employment in the private sector and her desire to see Texas Tech become a tier one research university.

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Texas varsity shows how Fibertect mops up oil

The Insitute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University has come out with a demonstration of how its contamination wipe called Fibertect can mop up oil in seconds. In a demonstration shown on CNN iReport (http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-447299), the Director of the Institute shows how the Fibertect mops up oil in an aquarium filled with [...]

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Financial advice from the nation's top grads

NEW YORK — It’s graduation season. That means hordes of newly-minted MBA students and undergraduate business majors will soon be entering the work force.

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Young adults, and everyone else for that matter, shouldn’t forget those thrifty philosophies after they move into a higher income bracket, said Brandon Garrett, 22. He recently graduated with the highest grade [...]

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

History inspires author Thomas

Amarillo native and popular women’s fiction author Jodi Thomas has come a long way since her days as a student at Texas Tech University in the 1970s. She has published 29 novels in the last 22 years, landed on the New York Times and USA Today’s best-seller lists and found success with critics and readers [...]

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Alstom ready to dig in, set up in Amarillo

Multinational wind company Alstom Power Inc. will symbolically lay the cornerstone for its activities in the American market this week at Amarillo’s CenterPort Business Park, a company spokesman said.

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The company has extended its reach by joining research and development partnerships such as the National Institute for Renewable Energy, a Texas Tech University-led initiative, and the [...]