Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

KTXT-TV Names John Kirby as General Manager

After an extensive search, Kirby was the most qualified candidate.

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Professor Links Brain Reactions to Marketing Tactics

Shannon Rinaldo received a $55,000 grant from a private donor to fund the new Physiological and Neural Imaging Laboratory.

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Texas Tech Makes Progress on Tier One Status

The university is on a quest to become one of the nation’s truly great public research institutions.

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Administrator Named to National Engagement Committee

Valerie Osland Paton has been elected to the Association of Public Land-grant Universities (APLU) Council on Engagement and Outreach’s executive committee.

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Texas Tech Petroleum Engineering Receives Schlumberger Gift

Software gift will give students career advantages, attract research.

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Texas Tech’s Rawls College Breaks Ground for New Building

Rawls College of Business Building to be gateway to campus.

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Texas Tech Receives ConocoPhillips Gift

ConocoPhillips contributes $500,000 to scholarships, new students and a building campaign.

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Texas Tech Receives ConocoPhillips Gift for Business, Engineering Colleges

ConocoPhillips contributes $500,000 to scholarships, new students and a building campaign.

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Texas Tech Receives ConocoPhillips Gift for Business, Engineering Colleges

Scholarships, new students and a building campaign will benefit from the gift presented by ConocoPhillips today (Sept.21).

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Another former Tech Regent says the Governor pressured their resignation

LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – Just a few days after Governor Rick Perry denied any involvement in the recent resignation of Texas Tech Regent Mark Griffin, another former Regent says this is not the first time the Governor’s Office has tried to pressure a Regent’s resignation.

“It looks like a pattern, and the pattern is you know, if [...]

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

UPDATE: Race for research dollars

BACKGROUND: Tuesday, a state program debuted with $25 million designed to help seven Texas universities become stronger research institutions. House Bill 51 provides $50 million over two years. Schools that receive donations between $100,000 and $10 million can receive anywhere from a 50 to 100 percent match from the state. In the program’s first day, [...]

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

UTSA now due its biggest donation

Like a fire sale on designer shoes, the race for $50 million in state matching funds among Texas’ seven emerging research universities may be nearly over as soon as it started.

Tuesday was the first day the schools — including the University of Texas at San Antonio — could report private gifts that qualify for a [...]

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Texas Tech Announces TRIP Funds

Texas Tech President Guy Bailey announces private gifts totaling $24.3 million eligible for Texas Research Incentive Program matching grant.

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Texas Tech Announces TRIP Funds

Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance announces private gifts totaling $24.3 million eligible for Texas Research Incentive Program matching grant.

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Texas Tech Announces TRIP Funds

Texas State Senator Robert Duncan speaks during Texas Tech’s announcement of private gifts totaling $24.3 million eligible for Texas Research Incentive Program matching grant.

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Texas Tech Announces TRIP Funds

Private gifts totaling $24.3 million eligible for Texas Research Incentive Program matching grant.

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Texas Tech Receives Nearly $1 Million Grant From NSF

The $978,000 grant will be used to administer the growing number of STEM educational outreach programs at the university.

Friday, August 14th, 2009

New Members Named to Texas Tech Foundation Board

New board members important to future of Texas Tech System.

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Solar News on GWS Technologies

GWS Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: GWSC), an alternative energy company developing renewable energy solutions, announced today that it has partnered with Dominion Real Estate Investments LLC, (DREI) to begin development of a 118 acre solar farm in Lubbock Texas.

The project could provide power to a planned housing development and federal facilities contiguous to Lubbock Airport. The [...]

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Ag Researchers Hold Field Day to Showcase Safflower

Yellow flower joins cotton and sorghum in West Texas crop rotations with expected economic benefits.