Friday, November 6th, 2009
The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) at Texas Tech University is planning to host the 6th annual international conference on Advances in Textiles, Machinery, Non-wovens and Technical Textiles, (ATNT) 2009 at the Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, between December 7 and 9.
The conference will feature papers from natural fibres to fashion design [...]
Friday, November 6th, 2009
How did a musician who saw Jimi Hendrix blow “the rooftop off” an empty club in Washington, DC, find similar resonance in the field of “second order cybernetics?”
For Dr. Bruce “Bruno” Clarke, professor of literature and science at Texas Tech University, Woodstock performer and survivor, (his band, Sha-na-na was the penultimate act before Jimi Hendrix [...]
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Texas Tech University Hosts Major Textile Conference in India
The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) at Texas Tech University will host the 6th annual international conference on Advances in Textiles, Machinery, Nonwovens and Technical Textiles, (ATNT) 2009.
The event, held in collaboration with Bannari Amman Institute of Technology in India (BIT), will run Dec. 7-9 [...]
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Employee reports of hazardous work conditions in the basement of one of Texas Tech’s buildings has prompted officials there to conduct an investigation of the building’s air quality.
Graduate school officials are awaiting a report from Tech’s department of environmental health and safety about the possibility of indoor water seepage and – according to employee complaints [...]
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
An approved amendment to the state constitution means Texas Tech could receive millions of dollars in new grant money.
The passage of Proposition 4 on Tuesday’s ballot gave the state the green light to reallocate about $500 million in existing money from a dormant higher education fund to a new one geared to cultivate more Tier [...]
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Voters in Texas were deciding today whether to approve 11 proposed constitutional amendments, including one that would free up about $500 million to help public universities strive for tier-one status.
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The schools aspiring to join the big leagues are UT-Dallas, UT-Arlington, UT-El Paso, UT-San Antonio, Texas Tech University, the University of Houston and the University of [...]
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
With admission deadlines on the horizon, students applying to college this year face new realities in the process. So, now we’re taking a closer look at social networking’s role in college admissions.
While everyone may not use them, most everyone has heard of Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, and other sites like these. That includes universities like Texas [...]
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Jacqueline Kolosov-Wenthe will present a poetry reading from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday
in the Nasworthy Suite of the Houston Harte University Center at Angelo State University.
Kolosov-Wenthe has published two volumes of poetry: “Vago” (Lewis-Clark Press 2007) and “Modigliani’s Muse” (WordTech Communications 2009). She has a third volume, “Ordinary,” forthcoming this year. She has also [...]
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Students from across the country were in Plainview this past weekend for the annual Cargill Meat Solutions High Plains Meat Judging Contest.
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Claiming second in the Senior Division was Texas Tech University with 4,065 points, and third place went to the University of Nebraska with 4,057 points.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Newly empowered by the Supreme Court, the attorneys general of several states hit hard by the housing collapse are exploring consumer fraud suits against major mortgage lenders.
Frustrated by the banks’ inability or unwillingness to stop an avalanche of foreclosures, the states are considering lawsuits over the creation and marketing of millions of bad loans as [...]
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Texas Tech is the big winner for TRIP or Texas Research Incentive Program money. Although Texas Tech had already announced how much money it could qualify for; it’s now official.
Texas Tech gets more than any other school with $10.8 million this year and up to $21.2 million over two years. UT-Dallas comes in second at $7.7 million this [...]
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
The first criminal trial stemming from the state of Texas’ 2008 raid on a polygamist ranch is under way, with prosecutors attempting to prove that a middle-aged man sexually assaulted a minor he had taken as one of his nine “spiritual wives.”
Prosecutors plan to use DNA evidence to show that Raymond Merril Jessop, now 38 [...]
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Educomp Solutions today announced that its subsidiary, Learning.com acquired Houghton Mifflin Harcourt`s (HMH`s) Connected Tech Texas Technology Applications (Tech Apps), Adoption contracts and an exclusive license to provide the Connected Tech – Texas (CTT) product to Texas Tech Apps Adoption customers.
Friday, October 30th, 2009
LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) – Texas Tech University has made the cut in Victoria’s Secret’s 2009 collegiate collection.
Friday, October 30th, 2009
In investment news, a state-of-the-art fabric laboratory has been opened at Texas Tech University to develop protective products.
Friday, October 30th, 2009
A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Covington currently makes his home on the high plains of West Texas, where he teaches in the creative writing program at Texas Tech University.
Friday, October 30th, 2009
After 2 highly successful chess presentations in Austin, TX to countless state educational legislatures and superintendents, SPICE and Texas Tech University have received unanimous votes to begin pilot chess programs in selected schools in the state of Texas. We will then present the important statistics at a meeting next year for a final green light.
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Texas Tech fans got to experience a Jones AT&T Stadium expansion last week when six new sections were opened for business on the northeast and northwest corners. Next up is the east-side stadium building scheduled to come on line next year.
Friday, October 30th, 2009
“LaShara Nieland,” said Barbara Brannon, marketing manager for Texas Tech University Press. “They have been working together on wildflower research and photography since they were in college at Abilene Christian University. They met in biology class and have both shared an interest and passion for wildflowers ever since.
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Her first book, “Horse and Rider,” will be published this spring as winner of the Texas Tech University Press’s Walt McDonald Prize.
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