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Sacred SISTAHS helps mentor area's girls

Causey-Bush and her husband – Dr. Lawson Bush V, Cal State Los Angeles/UC Irvine Joint Doctoral Program director – were teaching at Texas Tech University when she founded Sacred SISTAHS

Tech fans should greet visitors with respect, not rude behavior

Tech has so many great traditions, such as the Masked Rider, the Saddle Tramps and the Guns Up sign.

Some fans have added other traditions to a home game at Jones AT&T Stadium.

Rafael Anchia: Exonerees deserve Texan of the Year honor

Nothing can right the wrong that was committed against Tim Cole, the 17-year-old Texas Tech student who went to jail an innocent man and died in prison 13 years later. HB 1736, named the Tim Cole Act, will allow his survivors to receive payments that would have gone to Mr. Cole’s estate, although no amount of money can restore a son to his mother or ease the pain of her loss.

Texas Tech turns to data deduplication for data backup, disaster recovery

When Texas Tech University began to move away from relying solely on tape for data backups, it found it easier and less expensive to add data deduplication licenses to its backup software than buying a dedicated deduplication hardware system.

Madrigal Dinner set for Dec. 3 and 5-7

Madrigal Dinner 2009, a Texas Tech holiday dinner theater tradition transporting audiences back to a British castle at Christmas time, will take place at 7 p.m. Dec. 3 and 5-7 in the ballroom at Tech’s Student Union Building.

Human Race Machine launches discussions on race and identity

Texas Tech students are finding out with the help of a new machine that snaps a picture of a person’s face and transforms them into a black, white, Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, or Indian person.

Group wants help increasing Tech scholarship named for O'Brien

A group of 1967 Lee High School graduates — ex-Marines all — are seeking help to beef up a Texas Tech University scholarship fun for one of their own — Medal of Honor winner George H. O’Brien.

Servicemembers sacrifices observed through generations

Reckner is also founding director of the Vietnam Center and Archive of Texas Tech University.

Tech credit union earns awards

The Texas Tech Federal Credit Union received two first place awards this month for its marketing efforts.

Student government conference attendees get demonstration in Lubbock

Texas Tech’s student government has a non-voting body of student organizations that advocates student government for change and access to money, said Joe Sangirardi, University College district representative.

A New Format

Clint Cannon of Waller, who will head into the National Finals with a commanding lead in the world bareback riding title race, won the Stampede. Former NFR qualifier Wes Stevenson, a former Texas Tech star who lives in Lubbock, finished fourth in the bareback riding average.

Midland men outfit trailer with electronics, cooking equipment

The three men, it should go without saying, are die-hard pirates and their state-of-the-art rig one-ups most — if not all — competition in the world of on-campus tailgating at Texas Tech.

Milestone realized Company inks unmanned aircraft deal

After years of researching, developing, designing and planning, Carter Aviation Technologies marked a major milestone Tuesday.

Texas Tech Professors Available to Explain International Search For Rosetta Stone of Physics

Newswise — A team of Texas Tech University physics researchers involved with the CERN experiment is available to speak to the media as scientists prepare to test the particle beam of the world’s largest particle collider deep beneath the Swiss Alps.

Defendant names killer on tape

After a morning break, Thomas Parsons, a forensics pathologist at Texas Tech University, was called to the witness stand.

Dinosaur whodunit: Is Shiva crater the missing link?

The scenario above is not the figment of some scriptwriter’s imagination. Instead, it is the essence of a theory put forward by Sankar Chatterjee, a professor at Texas Tech University, to explain why dinosaurs became extinct almost 65 million years ago.

Complex prosecution ahead in Fort Hood case

A former Army staff judge advocate and military law expert at Texas Tech University suggests that it could take about two years to go to the military equivalent of a trial, depending on the defendant’s health. And the outcome of the case would likely end up mired in complex appeals.

Dino dessert after a Texas dinner - Chatterjee recalls adventures in ranches while scouring for fossils

Shortly after Chatterjee joined Texas Tech University here as curator of palaeontology 30 years ago, he heard about the possibility that ranches around the town of Post, near Lubbock, may be the key to unlocking mysteries about some animal species that became extinct millions of years ago.

Built for Mars, UNF robot is still earthbound - for now

UNF’s hand-tooled, shop-made robot faced heavyweight challengers from schools such as Texas Tech and Notre Dame.

Parents Challenge Test Exam Scores

SAN ANTONIO — Kailee Wegehaupt and Lindsey Terrill are advanced sixth-grade students at La Vernia Middle School. They are so proficient in math, both tested to skip sixth grade math. They enrolled in “Credit by Exam” through Texas Tech University. Students who score a 90 or above can skip a grade in the subject tested.

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