Friday, October 7th, 2011

Texas Tech to Help Lead New Climate Science Center

School will have leadership role in a consortium of universities, tribal nations and regional partners.

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Presidential Lecture and Performance Series Announced

Artists and scholars from around the world will speak and perform during this year’s series.

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Educators Sponsor Llama Reading for Local Children

Jumpstart Lubbock helps elementary students experience “Llama Llama Red Pajama” in a creative way.

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Masked Rider No. 21 Remembers Tradition of Pride

During his time as mascot, Perry Joe Church embraced the mentality of being a school ambassador.

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Texas Tech Law Students Finish Second at National Competition

The team of Mischeka Nicholson and Thomason Bush shine at Entertainment Law Negotiation event.

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Vietnam Guest Lecture Series Set to Resume

The Vietnam Center and Archive hosts distinguished speakers from October 2011 to November 2012.

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Texas Tech Law Negotiation Team Takes Second Place at National Competition

For the second straight year, a Texas Tech University School of Law negotiation team has earned a second-place finish at the Entertainment Law Negotiation Competition, hosted by Southwestern Law School Oct. 1-2 in Los Angeles, Calif. The team of second-year (2L) students Thomason Bush and Mischeka Nicholson, coached by professors Nancy Soonpaa and Wendy Humphrey, [...]

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Human Sciences Hosts 29th Annual Distinguished Alumni Luncheon

The honorees will be recognized at 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 13 at the Lubbock Country Club.

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Texas Tech Academics Nab RIIA Thought Leadership Award

onwallstreet The RIIA’s Retirement Management Journal recognized Duncan Williams and his advisor, Michael Finke, for their paper outlining a new approach to withdrawal rates for retirement portfolios.

Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Message in a Bottle: Professor's Letter Surfaces 14 Years Later

Australian couple finds message cast by retired plant and soil science professor George Tereshkovich.

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

College of Human Sciences Honors Distinguished Alumni

Texas Tech University’s College of Human Sciences announces the recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Awards, New Achiever Award, Lifetime Distinguished Service Award and Distinguished Leadership Award. Honorees for 2011 will be recognized at the 29th Annual Distinguished Alumni Luncheon to be held at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 13 at the Lubbock Country Club. The Distinguished Alumni Awards are [...]

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Texas Tech System Chancellor Hosts New Program on KTXT-TV

By Robert Giovannetti
Texas Tech University System and KTXT-TV Channel 5 officials announced the premiere of the station’s latest program “Inside Texas Tech,” which will be hosted by Chancellor Kent Hance.
The first episode of “Inside Texas Tech” will debut at 8 p.m. CST Thursday (Oct. 6) on Channel 5, and the program will showcase Texas Tech’s [...]

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Texas Tech System Chancellor Hosts New Program

‘Inside Texas Tech’ will debut at 8 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 6) on KTXT-TV, Channel 5.

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Meat Judging Team Wins First Fall Contest

The Red Raiders earned top honors, scoring 4,071 points at the Eastern National Intercollegiate event.

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

$5.9M for Texas Tech-EPCC architecture program

El Paso Inc. While cooperation between colleges is nothing new, having the two programs located on the same campus in the same building is unprecedented, says Robert González, director of Texas Tech’s architecture program here.

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Why geezers give the best investment advice

Market Watch “The older you get, the smarter you get,” said Harold Evensky, a 69-year-old financial adviser based in Coral Gables, Fla. “I think I am a significantly better practitioner than I was 10 or 20 years ago. That comes from experience and from the fact that I continue to read [financial] journals, talk to people and teach a graduate course.” (Evensky is an adjunct professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.)

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Texas Tech Meat Judging Wins First Fall Contest at Eastern National

The Texas Tech University Meat Judging Team won its first competition of the fall judging season on Oct. 1 at the 2011 Eastern National Intercollegiate Meat Judging Contest in Wyalusing, Pa. The Red Raiders earned top honors, scoring 4,071 points—defeating their nearest competitor by 44 points.

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Students Win Big in State Writing Competition

The students placed in the top three of the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers event.

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Experts: Smoke from Waxahachie fire may be threat, despite early discounting of toxic risk

Dallas Morning News Texas Tech University toxicologist Ronald J. Kendall agreed that more sources than the chemicals reportedly at the plant were involved in the fire.

He said the smoke appeared to come from a burning petroleum substance and warned that such fires create highly toxic polyaromatic hydrocarbons.

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

Geoscientist will explore climate projections during seminar

The Independent Florida Alligator Distinguished atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe will visit UF to talk about a little more than the weather.

Hayhoe, a research associate professor of the geosciences department at Texas Tech University, will be speaking at a seminar co-hosted by the Florida Climate Institute and the UF Water Institute.