Archive for May, 2010
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
LUBBOCK, TEXAS & AUSTIN, TEXAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has issued a two-year $912,943 grant to biopharmaceutical company Selenium, Ltd. to support the development of antimicrobial dental devices and water lines.
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SeLECT technology was originally developed by Dr. Ted Reid and Dr. Julian [...]
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Debra Reed’s class has developed a cookbook with healthy and inexpensive meal options for the nation’s undernourished.
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
The men’s and women’s rodeo teams finished third and fourth for the year among 16 schools in the Southwest region.
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Debbie Laverie was selected as a 2010 Piper Professor for her superior teaching.
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Even if BP can stop the leak nearly a mile down, serious ecological harm from oil already spilled is inevitable, says Dr. Ron Kendall of Texas Tech University.
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Texas Tech’s Board of Regents is scheduled to make a final decision this week on exactly how much to raise next year’s tuition rates at the flagship campus and at Angelo State University.
The board will convene for two days beginning Thursday to address the proposed tuition hikes along with a variety of other housekeeping measures, including a long-term plan for facilities construction and a contract
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
One of Texas Tech’s top administrators will step down at the end of the month, the university announced Tuesday.
Corky Dragoo, Tech’s chief operating officer and vice president for administration and finance, will leave his post as a key fiscal administrator to take on new role overseeing special projects.
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
A bleak state funding outlook hit home in Austin this week when the University of Texas announced it will be laying off 122 people, but officials at Texas Tech renewed their vows to absorb a similar financial blow without axing jobs.
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Lloyd Heinze, chairman of the petroleum engineering department at Texas Tech University, agrees that this is an unusual approach. “Normally, you would not evacuate the riser until you were done with the last plug at the sea floor,” he said in an interview.
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Lloyd Heinze, chairman of the petroleum engineering department at Texas Tech University, agrees that this is an unusual approach. “Normally, you would not evacuate the riser until you were done with the last plug at the sea floor,” he said in an interview.
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Advised that his best chance was to run for an FFA state office, Alejandro’s speech so impressed Dr. Bill Bennett, the director of the Texas Tech School of Agriculture, that he was given a scholarship and was also elected as the Texas State FFA President, the first Hispanic to hold that office.
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
While thousands of workers are desperately trying to shut off a nearly three-week-long leak in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists from around the country are evaluating the impact this oil spill will have on the nation.
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But there are still potential major impacts beneath the surface, says Ronald Kendall, Texas Tech University’s Environmental and Human Health [...]
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
5,000 barrels of oil (210,000 gallons, or 794,937 liters) a day are thought to be bleeding from a damaged wellhead at the nearby site of the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster. All that oil is poisoning the less photogenic creatures—plankton, sand crabs, and fish larvae, among others—at the base of the region’s food web, Schweiger noted.
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That [...]
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Inside the National Weather Service office in Slidell, Louisiana (map), data screens are showing clear skies over the Gulf of Mexico.
But lead forecaster Robert Ricks, who’s coordinating 12-hour emergency shifts to provide information to people combating the Gulf oil spill, knows not to drop his guard.
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Ron Kendall, chair of the Department of Environmental Toxicology at [...]
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
In a part of the world accustomed to the annual ritual of hurricane season, anticipating the landfall of oil from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform that sank in the Gulf of Mexico April 22 has an eerie familiarity.
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“We literally have just about a worst-case scenario,” says ecotoxicologist Ron Kendall, who directs the Institute of Environmental [...]
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Brevard beaches could blacken with tar balls and mats in a matter of weeks.
Brown melted chocolate-like globs might lap up on shore, less toxic than in Louisiana, weathered by weeks of sun, bacteria and other elements.
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“In my opinion, in two weeks this oil’s not going to be very weathered,” said Ron Kendall, director of the [...]
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – From Lubbock to Amarillo in length and from the Hub City to the New Mexico border in width – that’s how much oil is covering the Gulf Coast. One local environmental expert believes this could be the worst and most devastating oil spill in our nation’s history.
Texas Tech University’s Environmental and [...]
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Scientists at Texas Tech’s Institute of Environmental and Human Health say their research may come in handy for the recent oil spill. Right now they’re testing how contaminants similar to oil affect sea turtle cells.
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“We could be wiping out a whole generation of sea turtles in the Gulf Coast,” says Ron Kendall, Ph.D., and director [...]
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
An over 7,000-square-mile wildlife “dead zone” located in the center of the Gulf of Mexico has grown from being a curiosity to a colossus over the past two decades, according to the National Wildlife Federation (NWF), and scientists are now concerned the recent oil spill and other emerging chemical threats could widen the zone even [...]
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Texas Tech University’s Environmental and Human Health Director Ronald Kendall says BP oil spill in the gulf could be the worst in history. He would know, he was at the Exxon-Valdez oil spill. According to Kendall, this is a bigger spill and will have much worse consequences for the enviroment.
