Monday, May 9th, 2011
7th Space Interactive – CollegeWeekLive, provider of the world’s largest college fairs and admissions events, hosted their first science college fair — Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Day — on April 26, 2011.
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
The Bellingham Herald – Scorched Texas is sprouting green. Almost before the embers cooled, nature began its renewal.
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
News Radio 1420 KJDL – For about a month, more than 20 students vied for the winning “Denim Runway” design. The competition was based on the popular Lifetime reality series, “Project Runway,” where designer hopefuls compete for a spot in the winner’s circle – and a healthy designer’s contract.
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
MyPlainview – Plainview High School math teacher Marcie Featherston has been awarded the Helen I. Medley Award for Outstanding Mathematics Teacher of the Year by Texas Tech University Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Sunday, May 8th, 2011
KVUE-ABC – They are as mesmerizing, as they are destructive. For decades, scientists have struggled to predict, study, and make sense of a tornadoes’ random fury.
Friday, May 6th, 2011
For two months, seven students traveled from Texas Tech University to some of the most remote locations of the American southwest.
Friday, May 6th, 2011
About 700 people donned the froggy faces during the Arbor Day celebrations on April 29.
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Winners were selected based on content, originality, design, format and effectiveness. Awards will be presented June 26 at the ALA conference in New Orleans.
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Financial Advisor – One financial counselor with a front-row seat on the impact of the Great Recession on the newest generation of adults is Deena Katz, who is chairman of Evensky & Katz in Coral Gables, Fla., and an associate professor teaching personal financial planning at Texas Tech. “This generation,” she observes, “is seeing what’s happening to their parents’ retirement plans, and how that’s become a real problem for most of them and how they need to change their expectations.
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Poten and Partners – President Barack Obama’s call on a successful mission by Navy SEALs to kill a long-wanted enemy would give the president credibility as a commander-in-chief, Texas Tech University political science assistant professor Cindy Rugeley said.
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Valerie Osland Paton will serve as interim dean, effective June 1.
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Online application has helped streamline the admission process for both faculty and students.
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Amarillo Globe News – Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance says he is confident the school will reach national research institution status by no later than 2013.
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Dairy Herd News – Think about what or who might be impacted, says David Doerfert, professor with the Department of Agricultural Education and Communications at Texas Tech University. A crisis will typically impact more than one thing; consider the impact a crisis could have on humans, animals, crops or the environment.
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Hollywood Reporter – He started his career at age 15. Pelley grew up in Lubbock, Texas, and got his start in journalism at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. The paper had a policy of not hiring employees under age 16, so Pelley lied about his age, according to the Texas Tech College of Mass Communications alumni magazine. He also had his mom drop him off two blocks away from the newspaper office’s so none of his co-workers — or bosses — could see that he couldn’t drive.
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Texas Tech University’s students, faculty and staff set a world record during the Arbor Day celebrations on April 29 for the most people in one place wearing frog masks, according to the World Records Academy.
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Science Daily – “The World Trade Center site was the first major real-world evaluation of robots as tools for USAR,” says Keith Jones, an HF/E researcher at Texas Tech University. “Overall, the robots performed well. One problem that did surface, however, was that the robots got stuck, a lot.” Jones, with coauthors Brian Johnson and Elizabeth Schmidlin, published a study of USAR robot teleoperation in a special issue of the Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making on human-robot interaction.
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Joelle Fuhrmann will be commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Air Force working in the 60th Civil Engineering Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, specializing in environmental engineering. She hopes to help bring clean, safe drinking water to communities around the world.
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Eleven members will be returning, with five new dancers joining.
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Campers will enjoy fashion show production, facials, sewing and more.
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