Archive for September, 2010
Monday, September 20th, 2010
Abilene Reporter-News – “Oil field Trash: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch” (Texas A&M University Press, $29.95 hardcover) covers the Texas oil scene from 1901 to 1960. Earlier this year, Texas Tech University Press brought out a book of Weaver’s humorous tales called “Hotter ‘n Pecos and Other West Texas Lies,” which also deals with life in the oil fields. “Oil field Trash” is a more serious — though certainly not dull — history.
Monday, September 20th, 2010
Abilene Reporter-News – The number of bachelor’s and associate’s degrees and certificates awarded increased 5.9 percent from fiscal year 2008 to fiscal year 2009. Both Texas A&M and Texas Tech were ranked No. 2 and No. 18 respectively in the Wall Street Journal’s new education ranking series in which recruiters identified the top 25 undergraduate universities that produce the best graduates according to academic strength, communication and leadership skills based on their hiring experience. Our institutions continue to be successful in their efforts and I trust they will continue to provide a prosperous future for our state.
Monday, September 20th, 2010
ABC News – Ron Kendall, director of The Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University in Lubbock and a member of the assessment team for the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989, says it will take “extensive environmental sampling” over a period of years to determine how much oil is embedded into coastal habitats, and where.
Friday, September 17th, 2010
The campaign is geared toward student scholarships, faculty endowments and facilities of the system’s three universities.
Friday, September 17th, 2010
Written by Dailey Fuller
The Texas Tech University System today (Sept. 17) kicked off a $1 billion fundraising campaign geared to ensuring the future of the system’s three universities.
“Today, the Texas Tech University System is making a bold statement about where we want to be as an organization and how we’re going to get there,” said [...]
Friday, September 17th, 2010
“Fight, Raiders, Fight” epitomizes the tough and unrelenting spirit of the Red Raiders.
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Students at Texas Tech should make being healthy a lifestyle.
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
National Geographic – Oil may be harming base of food web, early results suggest.
Weeks after the U.S. government claimed that the “vast majority” of oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill has been taken care of, oil has possibly been found deep on the Gulf seafloor, scientists announced this week.
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Discovery News – A horrific explosion in San Bruno, Calif., yesterday initially prompted fears of an airplane crash. The source turned out to be a ruptured natural gas line, but what failure actually caused the deadly, Bruckheimer-like scene?
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
The Hindu – KARUR: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Karur Exporter’s Association organised an interactive session with Seshadri Ramkumar Associate Professor of technical textile, Texas Tech University, the United States and Co-Chairman, India committee, Association of the Non-woven Fabrics Industry of United States. The session was on the business opportunities in technical textile and how Karur can take advantage of that section of the textile industry.
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Specialty Fabrics Review – There is no better testing ground for Texas Tech University’s Fibertect®, a cotton nonwoven wipe with an activated carbon core, than Grand Isle, La., where crude oil washing up on pristine white sand beaches is destroying tourism and making cleanup workers ill. Fibertect’s first field test showed that it successfully absorbed up to 15 times its weight in oil and also adsorbed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which may be one component of toxic vapors reportedly sickening cleanup crews.
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Students can avoid the freshman 15 by making good food choices and sticking to a sensible exercise routine.
Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Texas Tech to be a resource for institutions of higher education.
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
The study provides estimates of the economic impact of Texas Tech on Lubbock County for 2009.
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Texas Tech is making investments to create a learning environment of the highest caliber.
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
KCBD-NBC – LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – A new study shows that Texas Tech University has a billion dollar economic impact on Lubbock.
Texas Tech University helped sustain nearly 15,000 jobs and contributed $1.26 billion to the economic pulse of Lubbock County, according to the Economic Impact of Texas Tech University study released Wednesday.
Employees of the University provided a $612-million infusion on annual household earnings, 48 percent of the total economic impact.
University students spent $294 million locally, while 3,261 jobs held by students provided $80 million in household income.
“The updated study notes the impact of Texas Tech is more than $1.25 billion and our strategic enrollment plan of increasing enrollment to 40,000 students by the year 2020 will significantly increase the economic growth of the Lubbock community,” said Michael Shonrock, Texas Tech Vice President for Student Affairs.
The report provides estimates of the economic impact of Texas Tech on Lubbock County for 2009.
The study represents only Texas Tech and does not include the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
One way Texas Tech creates so much revenue for the city is through Red Raider football games.
KCBD NewsChannel 11 is looking into how much revenue the TTU vs. UT home game, is expected to bring into Lubbock.
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Join your friends from Raiderland on foursquare, and explore the Texas Tech campus from a whole new angle.
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Energy Efficiency News – Clean Green Energy, Northern Power Systems and Texas Tech University will work on designs for 200 kW, 450 kW and 500 kW turbines, respectively.
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Fibre2Fashion – The Texas Tech’s Institute of Environmental and Human Health is into groundbreaking research on finding applications and new uses of cotton nonwovens. This initiative of Dr Ramkumar Seshadri, Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Toxicology at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH), is being supported by funding from the Texas Department of Agriculture and the cotton industry.
To know more about the cotton nonwovens project, the funding it receives and the applications of research, Fibre2fashion spoke exclusively with Dr Seshadri. When asked about the cotton nonwoven project he said, “The Nonwovens & Advanced Materials Laboratory at The Institute of Environmental & human Health at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA is focused on finding new and valued added applications for cotton.
“We focus on understanding the comfort of cotton at fiber level. We use needlepunching and ancillary nonwoven processes to develop cotton nonwovens that find applications in defense, homeland security, oil spill situations, etc. Recent research has shown that cotton is superior in absorbing oil against commercial spunbond fabrics”.
When asked to divulge about the funding received for the project, he informed by saying, “The laboratory receives continuous funding from the US Department of Defense. Many cotton related agencies such as the Texas Department of Agriculture through its Food and Fiber Research Program, Texas State Support Program of Cotton Incorporated, USA, Cotton Foundation, USA, Lubbock based The CH Foundation, TTU’s College of Agricultural & Natural Resources, Plains Cotton Growers of Lubbock support the ongoing research by funding projects and providing support”.
We next quizzed him about the applications and target consumer segment of the various applications either under research or which have been developed, he said, “Our cotton research program is broad based and aims to develop products that have applications in defense, domestic and industrial markets.
The R & D from our laboratory has resulted in technology transfer and a nonwoven wipe with defense applications known as Fibertect is already finding applications in defense and homeland security sectors”, he concluded by saying.
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
Trading Markets – The Isenberg Scholarship was recently created by Eugene Isenberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Nabors, who funds the program by donating the entire after-tax proceeds of his salary to benefit the educational pursuits of Nabors employees and their immediate family members, among others. According to the group, these initial Isenberg Scholarship awards will provide 90 percent of the 76 recipients with scholarships in the range of $5,000 – $15,000. This year’s recipients will be attending accredited colleges throughout the United States, including: Texas A&M University, University of Houston, University of Virginia, University of Southern Mississippi, Houston Baptist University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, The University of Texas at Austin, University of Arkansas, Stanford University, and Texas Tech University, among others.
