Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Written by: Morgan Grubbs
Texas Tech University’s College of Mass Communications will host the Outstanding Alumni Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Oct. 16 in the Merket Alumni Center.
Jerry C. Hudson, dean of the College of Mass Communications, said recognition of the outstanding alumni reflects pride in their accomplishments as well as pride in the faculty of the [...]
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
One honoree will receive a posthumous award.
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Texas Tech University’s School of Law and Rawls College of Business have garnered positions in the 2011 Princeton Review’s The Best 172 Law Schools and The Best 300 Business Schools, respectively. The comprehensive reference books are available at book stores.
The Princeton Review does not rank the schools on a single hierarchical list or name one [...]
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
The win marks the 21st national/international championship for the school.
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
The Texas Tech debate team had a strong return to competition at tournaments at William Jewell College and at the University of California-Berkeley.
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Redding Record Searchlight “The bottom line is if they can get enough information about you that allows them to apply for credit in your name … then of course they can run up all sorts of expenses,” said Russell James, director of graduate studies in Texas Tech University’s personal financial planning department. “Certainly you can get pieces of that through standard information people put on Facebook.”
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Omaha World-Herald Cover/Design/Illustration: Mari Sandoz and Kimberli A. Lee, “‘I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter’: The Mari Sandoz Letters on Native American Rights, 1940-1965,” Texas Tech University Press; Lindsay Starr, designer; cover photos courtesy of the Caroline Sandoz Pifer Collection, Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center at Chadron State College.
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal The Great Plains Sorghum Improvement and Utilization Center is, for example, based in K-State’s Department of Agronomy and offers a platform for K-State faculty, USDA-ARS scientists and researchers from Texas A&M and Texas Tech to collaborate on all aspects of sorghum research and education from production, genetics, food processing and bioenergy production. More information about the center is at www.agronomy.ksu.edu under the Research section.
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
CattleNetwork And so Dr. Guy Loneragan of Texas Tech was invited to speak at the conference.
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
CattleNetwork – Michael bought his last group of outside females in 1989. Those were eight bred cows Windy Bar bought from Texas Tech University, through Dr. Bob Long. Those cows made a tremendous contribution to the herd. Since that purchase, all their females have been bred, born and raised at Windy Bar Ranch. They have not built this herd with trader cattle, but by careful selection and relentless culling for desired traits.
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Almost a year since the tragic mass shooting at Fort Hood, Maj. Nidal Hasan begins a hearing today, the first part of the military legal process, in which prosecutors will try to convince military officials to send the alleged shooter to a court-martial.
Texas Tech University School of Law has experts in military law available to [...]
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Famous jam band inspired science fiction, time travel and even zombie stories.
Monday, October 11th, 2010
Texas Tech was named the second-place school at both competitions.
Monday, October 11th, 2010
Dallas Morning News – “This office is one that people have started looking at,” said Cindy Rugeley, an assistant professor of political science at Texas Tech University. “It enables [an officeholder] to establish ID as pro-Texas and pro-Texas business.”
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
USA Today – Since the real estate bubble burst, the American dream of homeownership has fizzled.
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Science Daily – ScienceDaily (Oct. 7, 2010) — The sudden death of bee colonies since late 2006 across North America has stumped scientists. But today, researchers may have a greater understanding of the mysterious colony collapse disorder, said a Texas Tech University biologist.
Friday, October 8th, 2010
San Angelo Standard-Times – The study, conducted by Bradley T. Ewing, the Rawls Professor of Operations Management in Texas Tech University’s Rawls College of Business, also found ASU’s 27,000 graduates throughout the state are responsible for another $484 million impact on the Texas workforce.
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Researchers with a conservation alliance based at Texas Tech have found a quail loaded with high levels of the antibody that fights West Nile virus.
Friday, October 8th, 2010
A Texas Tech biologist said researchers may have a greater understanding of the mysterious colony collapse disorder.
Friday, October 8th, 2010
Win marks the 21st national/international championship for the university.
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