Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Dr. Brian Stacy was conducting a necropsy on a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, found floating in the Mississippi Sound on June 18.
It was one of hundreds of dead creatures collected along the Gulf Coast since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Swabbed for oil, tagged and wrapped in plastic “body bags” sealed with evidence tape, [...]
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Ryan Jarrett may have put together the fastest four days of tie-down roping in rodeo history at the 2010 Calgary Stampede.
Jarrett, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association 2005 world all-around champion, stopped the clock at 6.6, 6.3, 6.9 and 6.8 seconds during performances on July 9-12 at the renowned Alberta rodeo.
At the Stampede, ropers are allowed [...]
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Texas Tech is preparing for an overhaul of its website to comply with a new state law that legislators hope will make the state’s higher education system more transparent, but some Tech faculty members don’t share lawmakers’ enthusiasm.
The measure requiring state universities to provide prospective students with more online information about courses and instructors has [...]
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Dr. Ronald J. Kendall, director of the Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University, demonstrates an oil-absorbing fiber developed by Assistant Prof. Seshadri Ramkumar.
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Searching for a Smoking Gun
In a laboratory at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Jennifer Cole, a graduate student, was slicing a precious chunk of living dolphin tissue into 0.3-millimeter sections.
Supervised by Céline Godard-Codding, an endangered species toxicologist, Ms. Cole was studying cytochrome P450 1A1, an enzyme that breaks down hydrocarbons.
Tissue samples are one of the [...]
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
The oil from the broken well 40 miles off the Louisiana coast keeps getting closer to the plate.
Researchers at the University of Southern Mississippi earlier this month found oil droplets in the tiny blue crabs that feed much of the larger sea life in the coastal gulf waters. And in what might be worse news, [...]
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
A pair of Texas Tech law students won first place this month at an international legal competition in Australia, the university announced Tuesday.
Tech law students Allyson Bazan of Seattle, Wash., and Michael Martinez of Brownfield defeated 15 other teams from around the world July 4 during this year’s International Negotiation Competition, which pits two-person teams [...]
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
While children enjoy playing in the rain and flood water, it might not be all fun and games. Water covering streets, neighborhood lawns, and fields, runoff into the flooding water potentially creating a cesspool of bacteria and chemicals your child may be playing in.
“It’s a legitimate question to ask, are there significant amount of chemicals, [...]
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
On paper, R. Carter Hailey’s scholarship is exceptional. A leading expert on papermaking and early modern printing, Mr. Hailey just spent a year as a research fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, studying the paper stocks used in early editions of Shakespeare. He probably knows more than any other person alive about the [...]
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
Everyone on the High Plains knows about the troubles of the Ogallala Aquifer. Five trillion gallons get pumped out each year to irrigate about a third of the nation’s food and fiber, according to William Ashworth’s 2006 in-depth book about the aquifer, Ogallala Blue. With the aquifer declining year by year, how long can it [...]
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Robert Weiner is the author of Marvel Graphic Novels And Related Publications: An Annotated Guide To Comics, Prose Novels, Children’s Books, Articles, Criticism And Reference Works, 1965-2005, and Captain America And The Struggle Of The Superhero.
For his most recent publication, Graphic Novels And Comics In Libraries And Archives: Essays On Readers, Research, History And Cataloging [...]
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
The Texas Tech School of Law’s student negotiation team has won the 2010 International Negotiation Competition in Australia, the university announced today.
Two Tech law students, Allyson Bazan of Lubbock and Michael Martinez of Brownfield, finished first at the 16-team competition, defeating teams from places like Japan and Northern Ireland.
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
When students return to school, starting September 1, they’ll have much more than just a few lines to read to judge a class. Texas Tech administrators say the goal is three clicks.
With each click students, parents and anyone else will be able to look at a course syllabus, teacher background or past evaluations.
Texas Tech already [...]
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Remediation and communication
In my own presentation, I offered a demonstration of the adsorption and absorption characteristics of the Fibertect® nonwoven dry decontamination wipe, research that fits well with the hazard mitigation program of the U.S. DOD. The patented technology is manufactured by Waco, Texas-based Hobbs Bonded Fibers, and marketed by First Line Technology of Chantilly, [...]
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
For the second time in five years Texas Tech law team takes the international title.
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
University Student Housing was presented with the Presidential Service Award from the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International.
Monday, July 12th, 2010
If you haven’t read the front page article in todays A-J titled “Study Stirs Controversy About Abuse,” you must do so. It reports of two Texas Tech sociology professors who did a survey of 600 college students, called it a “study,” and concluded that the more fundamental the Christian beliefs college students have, the more [...]
Monday, July 12th, 2010
The oil spill that is destroying wildlife and wetlands and impacting the economy and livelihoods all along the Gulf Coast has turned the spotlight on ways to clean up the mess.
More than 30,000 suggestions have been submitted by the public for dealing with the oil goo that is floating ashore, but two proven products for [...]
Monday, July 12th, 2010
The writer is a student at Texas Tech University.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the stock market regulator, has imposed an additional Tk 200 in annual maintenance fee on each beneficiary owner (BO) account. According to press reports, SEC took the decision to increase government revenue from stock market. The maintenance fee will go to [...]
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Foy and Hahl Proctor will be celebrated at a reception on July 12 in Midland.
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