Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
stringsmagazine.com – A teacher can uncover a wealth of information about his or her own performance through a simple student evaluation. Bruce Wood, an associate professor of music education at Texas Tech University and director of the Texas Tech String Project, has created an evaluation with nine open-ended questions that can uncover students’ opinions about their teacher.
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Alvin Davis will be inducted at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center.
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
myfoxla.com – A Texas Tech University professor of management is urging his students to read graphic novels in order to grasp the business world. He is also the author of the books.
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
investmentnews.com – “I’d never keep money with an insurer, and I’d never recommend a client do it,” says Gerry Beyer, who teaches estate planning at Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock. “It isn’t financially protected.”
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
eurekalert.org – The University of Missouri has now received $230,000 in grants from the Ford Foundation and its partner organizations to advance the DDI. This includes the recent $30,000 grant that will be dispersed among several participating institutions including Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State, Baylor, the University of Kansas, and Iowa State.
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
krqe.com – NMSU is working with Texas A&M and Texas Tech, the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service labs and Cropping System Research Lab, in Lubbock, Texas, and the National Peanut Research Lab in Dawson, Ga., to bring the latest information about the different peanut varieties.
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
TTAA Ambassadors provides for volunteer opportunities within the alumni association.
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
statesman.com – Cunningham, a Texas Tech history professor, focuses on the years from the mid-1950s to 1980, a period when profound social changes accelerated a realignment of Texas and American politics that culminated with the election of Ronald Reagan.
Monday, August 30th, 2010
foxnews.com – A team of researchers led by Dr. George Cobb from Texas Tech University sampled 128 sites throughout New Orleans and combined their findings with data gathered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
“Our evaluation of contaminants in New Orleans was critical in determining whether storm surges and resultant flooding altered chemical concentrations or distribution,” concluded Cobb. “Our results show how long-term human health consequences in New Orleans are difficult to attribute to chemical deposition or redistribution by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, yet reveal how chemical contamination is a historical problem for old cites in the U.S. Our results and the data from coastal ecosystems reveal the value of long-term monitoring programs to establish baseline concentrations and distributions of contaminants in the environment.”
The levels of lead found in the samples taken by Cobb and his team exceeded the threshold for safety in the United States. Lead exposure has been linked to brain and nervous system damage, developmental delays and hearing impairment in children. In adults, it has been linked to reproductive issues, miscarriage and birth defects, nerve damage, cognitive impairment, high blood pressure, joint pain and digestive issues.
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Abilene reporternews.com – It is astounding and frightening that so much of our country (which I thought considered free exercise of religion and private property rights as two of its cornerstones) is bothered by the prospect of a group of Muslims building a mosque. To be sure, two blocks from ground zero is hallowed ground. Consequently, a monument to those who destroyed the twin towers is, and should be, offensive.
Monday, August 30th, 2010
npr.org – Jeremy Short and his co-authors are showing that college textbooks don’t have to be dull or expensive.
Short is a professor of management in the business school at Texas Tech University.
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Tri-cityherald.com – Most men with genital piercings don’t fit into the usual stereotype of bikers, druggies or Goths, researchers said Monday. In fact, most who responded to a survey are nearly middle-aged, middle class married men, according to an online study performed by researchers from Texas Tech University.
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Round Rock Leader.com – Students involved with the automotive technology programs in Hutto and Taylor ISDs are one step closer to becoming Texas Tech University Red Raiders through a new partnership announced Aug. 17 at the East Williamson County Higher Education Center in Taylor.
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Discovery News “Robotic strategies are intriguing, and they create further opportunity to consider responses in the future,” said Ron Kendall, director of the Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University and professor of environmental toxicology. Although robots hold promise, Kendall cautions that they could have key limitations.
Kendall said that much of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf entered the water column, which would present a serious challenge to robots that stay on the surface. He also compares the surface oil he saw in the Gulf to extremely sticky chocolate mousse. Even nonwoven material developed at Texas Tech that can absorb 40 times its weight in crude oil couldn’t handle the substance.
“This demonstrates the need for new innovation in oil spill cleanup and remediation,” he said.
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Resource ShelfAfter several months developing the collections, the Texas Tech University School of Law Library has announced the official launching of the TTU School of Law Digital Repository designed to save, store, archive, and share Tech Law’s digital materials, including research and scholarship of TTU Law faculty and students, institutional history, and more.
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Statesman.com – Texas Tech has its own supercomputers and is maxing out their capacity, said Taylor Eighmy, Texas Tech’s vice president for research.
And though the university can also get access to federal systems, having additional access to the new Lonestar is “immensely valuable to us,” he said.
Supercomputers allow immensely complex computations, which require a lot of bandwidth and data storage, Eighmy said. “The ability to do these things as fast as possible is where advances happen now,” he said.
Monday, August 30th, 2010
HPCwire – Guy Bailey, president of Texas Tech University, said, “At Texas Tech, we’re aggressively building our research infrastructure and access to resources to provide our faculty and students with new opportunities for research and education. This partnership with UT Austin and TACC will help us ensure that our researchers have access to the best computational technology available.”
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Conduct research, chat with a librarian or find phone numbers from your smart phone.
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Event will address key issues for policymakers and military strategists in fighting global terrorism.
Monday, August 30th, 2010
bastropadvertiser.com – Another suggestion some are mentioning as an alternative to ACC is a partnership with a four-year college such as Texas Tech or Texas State University.
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