Friday, June 18th, 2010

Texas Tech Alumni Association Cuts Ribbon on Expanded Merket Alumni Center

A two-and-half-year fund raising and construction project doubling the meeting space in Merket Alumni Center will culminate with ribbon cutting.

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Initial Texas Tech-Created Fibertect Field Test a Success

The nonwoven cotton absorbent wipe would be a perfect remediation tool for use by oil spill cleaning crews.

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Therapeutic Riding Center begins construction of new riding facility

The Texas Tech Therapeutic Riding Center broke ground at the Texas Tech Equestrian Center on Monday in the first phase of a three-phase project to construct a new therapeutic riding, teaching and research facility.

Heather Hernandez, program director for the Therapeutic Riding Center and certified instructor with the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association — [...]

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

New Public Art Branches Out

Inspired by a seed-pod skeleton, Artist Robert Tully created three practical benches at Horn Hall that convey the idea of plant community.

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Katrina and BP, Two Sides of the Same Coin

Mississippi’s Governor Haley Barbour, in the wake of hurricane Katrina, often blunted attempts of the media to goad him into criticizing the rescue efforts of President George W. Bush by stating, “Louisiana has the same president as Mississippi has.”  That is to say Bush’s supposed inaction in the New Orleans’ “come rescue me” fiasco was [...]

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Texas Tech Branches Out Public Art

Written by Sherrel Jones
Artist Robert Tully sat on a bench nestled underneath lush trees at Texas Tech University while wondering how to connect people with their natural surrounding through art.
Across from him was an empty space waiting to be transformed.
Inspired by a seed-pod skeleton, Tully created three practical benches at Horn Hall dormitory that convey [...]

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Hoffman: Tech junior Creasy ties for first in bareback riding at CNFR

A Texas Tech junior English major, Creasy tied for first place in the first round of bareback riding at this week’s College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyo., after turning in a score of 80.5.

And while attending the 62nd CNFR, Creasy received an $1,800 academic scholarship during a ceremony earlier this week that honored rodeo [...]

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Education Graduate Earns Student Teacher of the Year

A May graduate won one of two state-wide awards, a first for a College of Education student teacher.

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Engineering Team Gets Microscopic Checkmate

The electrical engineering team will see their designs birthed in a microfabrication facility.

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Texas Tech College of Education Graduate Earns Student Teacher of the Year

A May graduate of Texas Tech University’s College of Education has won one of two state-wide awards for Student Teacher of the Year, a first for a Texas Tech student teacher from the College of Education. Katie L. Moreland will be honored at the annual conference of the Consortium of State Organizations for Texas Teacher Education [...]

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Texas Tech's Fibertect Absorbent Can Clean Gulf Oil Spill’s Crude, Hold Toxic Oil and Mustard Vapors

Seshadri Ramkumar, an associate professor of nonwoven technologies, said the Texas Tech-created nonwoven cotton carbon absorbent wipe can clean up crude oil and adsorb toxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon vapors reportedly sickening oil spill clean-up crew members.
Also, Fibertect has been tested to successfully remediate mustard vapors such as those found from dumped munitions discovered this week [...]

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Micro Chess Board and Microbarbershop Win Sandia’s Design Contest

The two winning teams will see their designs birthed in Sandia’s microfabrication facility, one of the most advanced in the world.

The micro chess board, created by students at Texas Tech, comes with micropieces scored with the design of traditional chess figures. Each piece is outfitted with even tinier stubs that allow a microrobotic arm to [...]

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Texas Tech Wins Design Competition with Microscopic Chess Set

World’s smallest chess set and a microbarbershop win big at Sandia.

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Texas Tech University Statement Regarding Big 12 Conference

Texas Tech announces its recommitment to membership in the Big 12 Conference.

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Researchers Set to Find Why Chemical Reactions Work Through Computerized Simulations

With the help of international collaboration, Texas Tech uses computers to learn what happens on a basic level.

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Tech professor to train students for international competition

The month of June is a critical training period for these students with work sessions sometimes lasting more than 13 hours a day. Texas Tech professor Razvan Gelca says it’s necessary because this isn’t a simple high school test. He’s the one to push the team members as far as they can go.

A former Mathlete [...]

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Groundbreaking Therapeutic Riding Center Expands in More Ways Than One

The expanded facility will help provide more therapeutic riding sessions and broaden equine therapy research.

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Dean List: After Two Years, Texas Tech Law School Still Hasn't Hired a New Leader in Lubbock

Despite an almost two-year search, the Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock has not found a permanent successor for Dean Walt Huffman. As the search continues, law professor Susan Fortney will take over as the interim dean July 1.

“It’s not a question of nobody wanting to be dean of the Tech law school; [...]

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Texas Tech Dept. of Theatre and Dance to kick off Summer Rep’ 2010

The Texas Tech Department of Theatre and Dance is proud to present Summer Rep’ 2010, a summer play lineup including two plays that will be performed in the week to come.

The first play is “The Big Friendly Giant,” The play will premiere Thursday and its last showing will be June 22. It will be directed [...]

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Storm chasers and film crew gather in Lubbock

Dozens of storm chasers stayed in Lubbock Monday night after following storms in Lynn County. The storm chasers are part of the VORTEX2 project, trying to collect data on Tornadoes.

“We’re going out with our armada of vehicles to research the origins of tornadoes and try to improve our knowledge so that we can improve our [...]