Friday, July 9th, 2010

Biggest Brains in Biggest Danger

TIEHH featured in “Living on Earth” segment of National Public Radio

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Dodging the Bullet—Advances in Ballistic-Resistant Textiles

Recent Developments

In April 2010, NATO sponsored a two-week workshop in Split, Croatia, chaired by Paul Kiekens of Ghent University, Belgium, to study technologies to combat military threats, including ballistic hazards. Ballistic protection topics included unidirectional layers, 3D structures, and the effect of weave and fabric structures. Workshop presenter and organizing committee member Seshadri Ramkumar, associate [...]

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Gulf oil-spill disaster likely to exert environmental harm for decades

More than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez foundered off the coast of Alaska, sea otters still dig up oil in their hunt for clams in Prince William Sound. Nearly 25 years after an oil storage tank ruptured near mangrove swamps and coral reefs of Bahia Las Minas in Panama, oil slicks still form in [...]

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Librarians Prove MJ was a star in Academic Literature

Jackson not only changed music and pop culture, but also the way college professors teach in a multitude of disciplines

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Midland Reception Honors Philanthropists

The memory and philanthropy of Foy and Hahl Proctor will be honored at a reception from 4:30-6 p.m. July 12 in the Petroleum Club of Midland, 501 W. Wall St.

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Texas Tech Honored with Presidential Service Award

Written by Sherrel Jones
University Student Housing at Texas Tech University was honored with the Presidential Service Award at the Association of College and University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I) Annual Conference and Exhibition in Austin.
Twelve members from the department attended the event. Members presented programs, won awards and assisted with the logistics of the conference. The banquet [...]

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

BP oil spill: Deepwater Horizon and Hurricane Alex

In the Gulf of Mexico last week a huge storm was brewing, as rapidly warming surface waters hit the crucial temperature of 80.6F (27C). Powered by heat transference from the sea surface, cyclones like Hurricane Alex rampage across the coastal regions of the southern states every summer. But this year Alex, and the storms that [...]

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Tests for oil keep Lake Alan Henry closed

A future drinking water supply and popular summer spot could remain closed through the weekend as state officials try to determine the extent of the damage from an upstream oil spill earlier this week.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality sent off Lake Alan Henry water samples Wednesday to test for tell-tale traces of crude oil, [...]

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Texas Tech University to Participate in Gulf Project

Texas Tech University will join several other state universities in a collaborative and intensive research effort to help prevent deep sea drilling accidents and better prepare the state for future environmental and economic disasters, announced today (July 6) by Texas Gov. Rick Perry at the Johnson Space Center in Clearlake, Texas.

“Texas Tech appreciates the governor’s [...]

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Hanoi hosts workshop on Vietnam-US relations

The workshop was also attended by Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh, US Senator Jim Webb who is visiting Vietnam, and US Ambassador to Vietnam Michael Michalak.

Delegates looked at the normalisation of Vietnam-US relations in 1995, the achievements and pending issues that need to be resolved, and prospects for stronger cooperation in [...]

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

New Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Named

Juan Sanchez Munoz will oversee the areas of academic advising and retention, community college and transfer relations.

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Texas Tech Names New Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education

Juan Sanchez Munoz has been named vice provost for undergraduate education.

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Preventing Future Disasters: Researchers to Participate in Statewide Gulf Project

In an effort to prevent future environmental and economic disasters, Texas Tech has teamed up with other universities and state officials in the Gulf Project.

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Scholarship issue to be cleared up

The Miss Juneteenth Scholarship Showcase pageant winner will receive her $1,000 scholarship when she enrolls for classes, Texas Tech officials confirmed Tuesday on the heels of a news conference regarding allegations the award had not been received.

Tonya Johnson, president of the Lubbock Juneteenth Committee, in a news conference Tuesday afternoon outlined allegations 2007 Miss Juneteenth [...]

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Texas Tech researchers to take part in Gulf Oil study

Researchers from Texas Tech are headed to the Gulf to study the oil spill.

Governor Rick Perry announced the collaborative study on Tuesday.

“I’m announcing the formation of the Gulf Project – representing an unprecedented collaboration of the state’s top scientists, engineers and researchers, focused on a clear set of vitally important goals of protecting our residents, [...]

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

NCTC, Texas Tech look for ways to partner

North Central Texas College took a step closer to forming a partnership with Texas Tech University last week.
Throughout the week, several members of the Tech faculty visited Graham to discuss ways NCTC and Texas Tech could work together to offer higher education to students.
Texas Tech President Guy Bailey personally made the trip to Graham and [...]

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Do Video Games Cause Attention Problems in Kids?

While researchers are still divided on the issue, the findings jibe with most earlier work on the effects of television watching in kids, they said.

“What we don’t know at this point is why TV and video games really would cause attention problems,” said Douglas A. Gentile, who worked on the study.

Gentile, who runs the Media [...]

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Holy Sequels! Texas Tech Guru Authors Second Graphic Novel at University

Atlas Black, the slacker turned entrepreneur, defied the odds and found his way in Managing to Succeed, thanks to graphic novelist and Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business Associate Professor of Management Jeremy Short.

Now, the unsung hero of sorts has come back to life in a second graphic novel just released this week in [...]

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

NO GED testing in city this year

Lubbock has been without a General Educational Development testing center since the end of 2009, but the high school equivalency testing will be available at Texas Tech beginning in the fall.

The Region 17 Education Service Center had operated a GED testing center in Lubbock for several years but closed it on Dec. 31, said Kyle [...]

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Tech sending hundreds abroad each year

Twenty years ago, the old joke goes, Texas Tech students interested in studying abroad would consider places like Austin, or maybe Oklahoma City.

Today, the university sends hundreds of its students to study in faraway places each year, while its administrators routinely trot the globe in search of new partnerships in places like Ethiopia, Greece and [...]