Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Women's Rodeo Team Ropes Regional Championship

The men’s team finished in third place.

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Franchises and Family Business Follies: Texas Tech Business Professor Creates Second Series of Graphic Novel Textbooks

After two successful management textbooks, Short creates graphic novel on franchising.

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Texas Tech Rawls College Author: Surviving College by Reading Comics

No pop-up pictures, but rather a modern take on creating engaging textbooks.

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Texas Tech Names 2011-2012 Pom Squad

Eleven members will be returning, with five new dancers joining.

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Scott Pelley aims for '60 Minutes' magic

Politico.com –
“No one ever sat me down and explained to me that my dreams were unreasonable and impossible,” he told graduates at a commencement speech at his alma mater, Texas Tech.. “No one explained to me that even though I had been interested in ‘60 Minutes’ since I was 16 years old, that there was no way I could work there.”

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Texas Tech Women’s Rodeo Team Takes Regional Championship

Men’s team takes third place.

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

6 Texas Tech Professor to Host Panel on Latinos in US Sports

Texas Tech University Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Jorge Iber will discuss the issues confronting Latinos who participate in U.S. sports.

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Researchers Gauge New Chinese Cotton Policy Shift

The Cotton Economics Research Institute shows that cotton producers are wary of lower prices in the near future.

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

War-time Nurse Visits Texas Tech for Vietnam Lecture Series

LeAnn Thieman will speak on her experience as a nurse during the Vietnam Orphan Airlift at 7 p.m. May 12 in the Allen Theatre.

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

In Tornado Zones, Seeking Shelter From the Storm

New York Times – To get the idea, just watch this video from the wind laboratory at Texas Tech University showing how a two-by-four traveling at tornado speed deals with various types of walls:

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Professor to Host Panel on Latinos in US Sports

Professor Jorge Iber will discuss both the historical and current role of Latinos in U.S. sports.

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

The American West as Classroom, Art and Metaphor

New York Times – These days a few landmarks rise above the flatness — water towers, radio antennae, lonely-looking trees. Mostly, though, there is still “a lot of land but nowhere to go,” as the artist Donald Judd observed of West Texas. So there may be few better bases of operation for an unusual academic program that has taken root here under the guidance of a Harvard-trained architecture professor at Texas Tech University, in which scholars study and make art in places about as far away from museums and galleries — and from bathrooms, decent beds and air-conditioning — as is possible within the continental United States.

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Annual Nebraska Vietnam Veterans reunion scheduled in Gering

Scottsbluff Star Herald – A major event at the 2011 Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Reunion will be the Texas Tech Vietnam Archives that will be in Gering all three days. The Vietnam Archives are dedicated to “Preserving the Past for a Better Future.”

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Texas Tech Names 2011 Distinguished Engineering Student

This award, provided by members of the Whitacre College of Engineering Dean’s Council, is named in memory of James A. McAuley, an active member of the Dean’s Council, and a Texas Tech Distinguished Engineer.

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Design Students Strut the Denim Runway

Apparel design students learn how cotton goes from the field to fashion in the form of denim.

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

CBS: Scott Pelley replacing Katie Couric on ‘Evening News’

Washington Post – He was inducted into the Texas Tech University alumni Hall of Fame and serves on the board of the university’s School of Mass Communications.

Prior to his time at CBS News, Pelley was a producer/reporter for WFAA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth (1982-89), KXAS-TV Dallas/Fort Worth (1978-81) and KSEL-TV Lubbock, Texas (1975-78). He began his journalism career at the age of 15 as a copyboy at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal newspaper.

Scott Pelley was born in San Antonio, Texas, and attended journalism school at Texas Tech University.

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

New "CBS Evening News" Anchor Pelley Began his Career the Old-Fashioned Way

Wichita Eagle – Before segueing to television while he was a student at Texas Tech, Pelley began his career at age 15 as a copyboy for Texas’ Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. “It’s supposed to be an avalanche of news on your doorstep every morning,” he explained in 1998 to CNN’s Larry King, who was dedicating an hour to the 50th anniversary of CBS’s once-exalted nightly newscast.

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Scott Pelley named anchor of "CBS Evening News"

CBSNews.com – Pelley serves on the board of directors of the International Rescue Committee, the refugee relief agency headquartered in New York City. He is Co-Chair of the IRC’s Board of Overseers. He was inducted into the Texas Tech University alumni Hall of Fame and serves on the board of the university’s School of Mass Communications.

Prior to his time at CBS News, Pelley was a producer/reporter for WFAA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth (1982-89), KXAS-TV Dallas/Fort Worth (1978-81) and KSEL-TV Lubbock, Texas (1975-78). He began his journalism career at the age of 15 as a copyboy at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal newspaper.

Scott Pelley was born in San Antonio, Texas, and attended journalism school at Texas Tech University.

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Blockbuster 'Fast Five' gets summer movie season off to early start

Christian Science Monitor – “This shows that with the right movie, nothing will keep people from heading out to the theater the minute a movie opens,” says Rob Weiner, visual and performing-arts librarian at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Former attorney general Alberto Gonzales releases statement on bin Laden's death

Dallas Morning News – Texas Tech University just released a statement from Alberto Gonzales, the former U.S. attorney general under President George W. Bush . Gonzales was central to the Bush administration’s interrogation regimen, which apparently played a key role in finding bin Laden.

Gonzales is now a visiting political science professor at Tech.