Friday, May 18th, 2012
Honduras WeeklyMore than a dozen Texas Tech University vocal performers and musicians will travel to Tegucigalpa to repeat Tech Music Theatre’s spring production of “Cosi fan tutte” on June 8-9 at the National Theater of Honduras.
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Southwest Farm Press-Glen Ritchie, assistant professor of crop physiology at Texas Tech University, with joint appointment with Texas AgriLife Research, Department of Plant and Soil Science, says the TexasSouth Plains is in a lot better shape than at this time in 2011.
Monday, May 14th, 2012
Huffington Post-”It really doesn’t generally rise to the legal definition of insanity,” says Huffman, now dean emeritus of the law school at Texas Tech University. “So there’s no way to account for it in the guilt or innocence phase of the trial.”
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Yahoo News-“Research at Texas Tech University and elsewhere has shown that only masonry or reinforced concrete walls can protect against lethal flying debris that might be encountered during a tornado with wind speeds up to 130mph,” said Mukaddes Darwish, PH.D., associate professor, Construction Engineering and Engineering Technology, at Texas Tech.
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety-Tornado field research is extremely difficult and can be dangerous, notes Dr. Tanya Brown, IBHS research engineer, who led a VORTEX2 (Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment) team for Texas Tech University in 2009 and 2010.
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Rocket News-“This is engaging the community, private sector and academia; this is what’s needed to fix the economy,” said Castillo, who is executive director and president of the National Wind Resource Center at Texas Tech.
Monday, May 7th, 2012
Chicago TribuneThe program is sponsored by Tech’s International Center for Arid and Semiarid Land Studies with the purpose of encouraging teachers to create projects to heighten student awareness of environmental issues, Bell said.
Monday, May 7th, 2012
Science Daily-”We found that family support is very important for reducing children’s sedentary behaviors,” said author Zhen Cong, Ph.D., an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Texas Tech University. The sedentary behaviors were mainly TV-watching, computer use and video-game playing, referred to as “screen time.”
Monday, May 7th, 2012
Montgomery Advertiser-“You have to remember that Hollywood has always remade films,” said Rob Weiner, the popular culture/fine arts librarian at Texas Tech University. “For example, there were numerous versions of ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ ‘The Lodger,’ ‘The Bat Whispers.’
Monday, May 7th, 2012
AgriNews-“This animal was presented to rendering, which means a couple of important things,” said Guy Loneragan, epidemiologist and professor of food safety and public health at Texas Tech University. “None of the animal entered the human or pet food supply, and this illustrates the surveillance system is working really well.”
Friday, May 4th, 2012
Abilene Reporter-News-Rob Weiner, pop culture librarian at Texas Tech University and instructor of a full-blown superhero academic course, said the past decade of superhero blockbusters is dependent on a couple of factors — technological advances being the obvious one. But more importantly, screenwriters finally started giving these masked and caped avengers intriguing dramas to act out.
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
New York Times -Taylor, the director of the interdisciplinary program Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech, met Tyng in 2010 when Tyng was commissioned by the ICA and the Graham Foundation in Chicago to create “Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry,” a gallery-scale installation and publication.
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
NBC Latino - Eddie Vargas can hardly believe that he’s winding down his sophomore year at Texas Tech University. A first-generation college student, Eddie recalls how difficult it was to persuade his parents to allow him to leave his hometown of Midland, Texas for a college two hours away.
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
The Brownsville Herald-Last week, the Texas Tech University College of Architecture professor stood beneath a black umbrella at the corner of 13th and Madison in Brownsville as a $200,000 three-dimensional laser scanning system bounced beams against the Cueto building, where the UTB-TSC Center for Civic Engagement is located. At 1-inch increments, the laser relayed spatial coordinates to a nearby computer.
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
CBS Atlanta -Ernst Kiesling, Professor of Civil Engineering at Texas Tech University and Executive Director of the National Storm Shelter Association (NSSA), said tornadoes are always a bonanza for the storm shelter business.
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Medical Express - “We found that family support is very important for reducing children’s sedentary behaviors,” said author Zhen Cong, Ph.D., an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Texas Tech University. The sedentary behaviors were mainly TV-watching, computer use and video-game playing, referred to as “screen time”.
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Huffington Post-The researchers from Texas Tech University and Virginia Tech University also found that the clergy who had been forced out were more likely to report lower levels of self-esteem and higher levels of depression, stress and physical health problems.
Friday, April 27th, 2012
NBC Dallas-Ft. Worth “[A] missile goes through there like a hot knife through butter,” said Larry Tanner, a Texas Tech research associate.
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
Star-Telegram Projects like Trinity’s raise public awareness of tornado-resistant construction techniques and may lead to greater acceptance of them, said Ernst Kiesling, a professor of civil engineering at Texas Tech and executive director of the National Storm Shelter Association.
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Bloomberg The latest case is atypical, said Guy Loneragan, an epidemiologist and professor of food safety and public health at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. That means it “may be a spontaneous, extraordinary event in older animals” and not likely due to animal feed, he said.
