Friday, June 17th, 2011
Philly – WHILE CITY big-shots have been agitating over the school district’s $629 million budget gap, a quieter financial worry is tugging at Vanita Young’s heart.
Vanita, a lovely, soft-spoken junior at the Walter D. Palmer Charter School, needs $2,000 if she wants to attend the nation’s most prestigious all-female chess tournament next month.
Friday, June 17th, 2011
Crazy Engineers – It seems that the next generation airplanes will have a tail wing rudder at nose. Researchers at the Texas Tech University and University of Florida believe that the smaller aircrafts will fly more efficiently if they are designed with the vertical tail in front near the nose.
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Researchers hope to develop more effective detection systems for finding explosive material.
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Texas Tech Vietnam Center and Archive director Stephen Maxner received the Medal for Records Management and Archives Career of Vietnam for his contribution to the archives and relations between the archives institutions of both countries.
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Ultimate Memorial – The Texas Tech Alumni Association (TTAA) Houston networking luncheon is set for July 6 at the Post Oak Grill.
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Benzinga -College Battle of the Bands, a collegiate music talent search, will award this year’s title to the top artist from more than 100 colleges and universities across the United States. This nationwide search culminates at the Echo in Los Angeles on Friday, June 24 at 8 p.m., in collaboration with its popular Club Underground night.
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
San Angelo Standard-Times – Texas Tech University’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction is accepting applications for its new hybrid doctoral program, which will debut in January 2012.
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Trib.com – Ray Tom Meiers and Merritt Smith learned how to ride broncs together.
They’ve battled each other through the high school ranks and within the Central Rocky Mountain Region at the college level.
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Mason County News – The Llano River was recently named one of the “Top Ten Waters to Watch” for 2011. This ranking will be discussed and celebrated at June 25th meeting of the South Llano Watershed Alliance. The meeting will begin at 10 AM at the Texas Tech Junction pavilion and be followed by a free, catered BBQ lunch. Last March, the Alliance partnered with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department on the Guadalupe Bass Restoration Initiative.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Texas Tech University College of Architecture at El Paso today welcomes its new director and associate professor, Robert Alexander González.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
The Department of Curriculum and Instruction’s new program will debut in January 2012.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
PR Newswire – ORLANDO, Fla., June 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — InfoComm Booth #3375 —Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting, lecture capture and knowledge management, today unveils the sixth version of its patented, award-winning Mediasite webcasting platform.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Physorg.com – (PhysOrg.com) — By morphing and repositioning a small aircraft’s vertical tail to resemble the cranial crest of a pterosaur, researchers have shown that the aircraft’s turn radius can be reduced by 14%. The ability to make sharper turns is especially important for small aircraft that operate in urban environments and in the presence of obstacles.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
mrweb – In the US, Texas Tech University has received an anonymous $1.2m donation to enable it to establish a free market research institute.The gift will be used to launch the Institute for the Teaching and Study of Free Market Economics within Tech’s economics department, and the university is currently looking to hire three new faculty members to staff the institute.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Education Week – Next Generation Learning Challenges, an education technology grant competition funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, announced the 19 entrants who won grants through the project’s second wave of funding—and first focused exclusively on K-12 causes—including several “proof of concept” proposals.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Go San Angelo – Kent R. Hance, chancellor of the Texas Tech University System, told the San Angelo Chamber of Commerce that Angelo State University and other members of the TTUS, will be “running lean and mean” in the wake of state funding cuts to higher education.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Designed with the busy lives of education professionals in mind, Texas Tech University’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction’s new hybrid doctoral program will debut in January 2012.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Royal Gazette – When Texas Tech University professor Dennis Fehr’s eldest daughters (twins) Shannon and Shenoa, were born, a black woman running for President was considered a joke by many people.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Houston Chronicle – Deep in the Chihuahuan Desert not far from the Mexico border, archeologists are busy digging up the first bison bones ever found in this remote area of Texas, which they hope will shed light on the little-understood lives of the inhabitants of the region in prehistoric times.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Guardian – Drought zones have been declared across much of England and Wales, yet Scotland has just registered its wettest-ever May. The warmest British spring in 100 years followed one of the coldest UK winters in 300 years. June in London has been colder than March. February was warm enough to strip on Snowdon, but last Saturday it snowed there.
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