Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Houston Chronicle — Some community leaders in Victoria have asked to sever ties with the University of Houston system, which has had a campus in the city for almost 40 years.
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Armstrong said he and other community leaders have met with Kent Hance, chancellor of the Texas Tech University system, about a possible [...]
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
In the magazine’s yearly assessment of America’s best schools, Texas Tech’s undergraduate engineering program is now tied for 78th.
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Central Science — My story looking into the details of the January incident at Texas Tech University is out today: Texas Tech Lessons. In short, a graduate student made way too much of an extremely hazardous material, didn’t use protective equipment, and got badly hurt when the substance blew up in his [...]
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
ChemBark — I just read Jyllian Kemsley’s news article in this week’s C&EN and her associated blog post on the Texas Tech lab explosion that occurred back in January, and all I can say is “wow”. First off, what great coverage by C&EN—a thorough story with plenty of quotes and even some “supporting information” in [...]
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Q: So what is the prognosis on your hands so far?
A: The right hand is pretty good. And the left hand is missing 3 fingers, but they say that’s looking pretty good.
Q: How’s your vision?
A: It’s fine. It’s certainly not as good as it was before. But it’s certainly good enough to do [...]
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
San Angelo Standard Times — After razing the roof of one dormitory hall, Angelo State University broke ground to raise the roof of another one.
ASU, Texas Tech University and city officials gathered Tuesday morning for a groundbreaking near the university’s pavilion to announce the start of construction for the Plaza Verde residence [...]
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Corante– If you haven’t heard about the explosion at Texas Tech earlier this year, this piece is the place to learn about it. (More from Chemjobber and the newly re-blogging Paul Bracher). In short, two graduate students were preparing a nickel hydrazine perchlorate complex, on far more than the recommended scale, [...]
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Los Angeles Times — 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.
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Research also found little literature exists about medical needs and health issues related to the piercings.
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Austin American Statesman — Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will serve as a visiting professor at Texas Tech for a second year.
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
The educational experience in Texas Tech University’s Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering is one of the nation’s top 80, according to U.S.News & World Report’s 2011 college rankings, released recently.
In the magazine’s yearly assessment of America’s best schools, Texas Tech’s undergraduate engineering program is now tied for 78th. The undergraduate program rankings are [...]
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
A team of researchers has found that chestnut-sided warblers possess two distinct cultural traditions in song variants that evolve independently – one, used for territorial disputes that changes frequently, and another, used for romance that relies on a small unchanging sampling of classics. The findings suggest songbird culture is more [...]
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Investment News — After her mother died, Jasmine Williams was assured by MetLife Inc. that her $101,819 in life insurance benefits were safe and was sent what the company called a guaranteed money market “checkbook” in 2002.
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“I’d never keep money with an insurer, and I’d never recommend a client do it,” says [...]
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Grant Vickland of Longmont said he thought he had a chance at winning this year’s market beef championship at the Weld County Fair.
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But in the eyes of Ryan Rathman, an associate professor of animal science at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, Vickland’s 1,298-pound crossbred steer was at the top of the [...]
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Austin News 8 — Classes began Monday at the Hill Country University Center in Fredericksburg.
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Texas Tech University Off Campus Sites Director of Operations Julie Martenson said the facility gives potential students in the Hill Country the opportunity to start or further their education without leaving home.
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Austin American Statesman — Like most Americans, I am a descendant of immigrants and a grateful beneficiary of the opportunities available to our nation’s citizens.
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Gonzales, a visiting professor of political science at Texas Tech, served as White House counsel and U.S. attorney general in the George W. Bush administration. The column first [...]
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Amarillo Globe News — Houston foundation presented a report Monday that touts investment in Texas’ renewable energy to create jobs and clean up the air, and in the bright and breezy Panhandle, solar and wind development is a natural.
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While there are four or five moderate-sized wind farms in the area and more [...]
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Abilene Reporter-News — Abilene Rep. Randy Neugebauer said locating a new mosque in New York City near the site of the deadly terrorist attacks is inappropriate and insensitive to people who lost family members on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Texas Tech University law professor Arnold Loewy said he knows of no legal reason why [...]
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
C&EN News — On Jan. 7, 2010, Texas Tech University (TTU) graduate student Preston Brown was working with another graduate student to synthesize and characterize an energetic material, most likely nickel hydrazine perchlorate. Despite being told by their adviser, chemistry professor Louisa J. Hope-Weeks, [...]
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
The mascot ranks ninth in The Associated Press poll.
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