Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
While politicians, law enforcement officials and citizens of every background stand divided over a recent Arizona immigration law designed to secure the state’s borders from illegal immigrants, a Texas Tech University expert on immigration and border history says that the law is no different than the Repatriation Act of the 1930s or Operation Wetback of [...]
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
As we see more wind turbines popping up across the West Texas landscape researchers say there’s a great deal of uncertainty over how it’s affective native bird populations.
They suspect the animals are avoiding areas with turbines, which would shrink the amount of space they have to populate.
The research project’s co-principal investigator, Matthew Butler, says that [...]
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
The Leach legal team held a news conference on Wednesday afternoon. Among the things they discussed were how wrong the Texas Tech lawyers have been at every juncture. According to the Leach legal team, Texas Tech said that the Leach law suit would be summarily dismissed. It was not. Texas Tech said that there not [...]
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Former gold medal winner Razvan Gelca trains top high school mathletes for the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Texas Tech response to news conference comments.
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
The children’s play, from the award-winning author of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” opens June 17.
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
More than a month into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, as we watch that dramatic underwater video of crude gushing out of the broken BP well, many are asking “Why isn’t anybody doing something about this?
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, facing 13 counts of premeditated murder, made his first in-person court appearance Tuesday, before military judge Col. James Pohl and won a request to delay the trial for four months.
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
The annual clash against the Longhorns will be televised nationally on ABC.
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
A Texas Tech engineering professor has been awarded nearly $400,000 by the National Institutes of Health to help prevent mitral regurgitation.
Zhaoming He, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was given this award for his proposal titled Mitral Valve Coaptation Plate for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation.
He has been studying the mechanical and muscular function of [...]
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
Tom Stalcup, a production volunteer for more than 14 years, was given a Distinguished Service Award by the National Friends of Public Broadcasting.
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Second statement on ruling in Mike Leach case.
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Statement from Texas Tech Attorney Dicky Grigg following June 1 court rulings.
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Judge issues rulings in Mike Leach case
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Texas Tech research will assist site developers in choosing locations based on bird populations.
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Most mammals can trace their origins to a single ancestral species. But in the Caribbean islands of the Lesser Antilles, there is a fruit bat with a far more complex family tree. Artibeus schwartzi’sgenome is a hybrid mish-mash of DNA inherited from no less than three separate ancestors. One of these is probably extinct and the other two of which still live on the same island chain. It’s a fusion bat, a sort of fuzzy, winged spork.
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Project will assist site developers in choosing locations based on bird populations.
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
Written by Sherrel Jones
As a professor prepares his mind and packs his suitcase, he thinks back to when he won the international gold in 1985.
This summer, Razvan Gelca, associate professor of mathematics, will not train athletes. The former mathlete will train the best high school math students in the world for the International Mathematical Olympiad [...]
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
The Gulf oil spill could end up blasting New Orleans with crashing waves of black muck.
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