May 24th, 2013
Texas Tech, South Plains Astronomy Club to Host Viewing Party for Triple-Play of Planets
Lubbock citizens can watch the event at May Starwatch at 9 p.m. Sunday, a viewing party hosted by Texas Tech’s Graduate Student Advisory Council, the Graduate School, South Plains Astronomy Club and Lubbock Lake National Historic Landmark.
May 24th, 2013
Texas Tech Honors College Announces 32 Terry Scholars
Texas Tech is the fastest-growing Terry Scholar university in Texas.
May 23rd, 2013
Texas Business Hall of Fame Inducts Texas Tech Business Student
A Texas Tech University doctoral student from the Rawls College of Business has been named a Texas Business Hall of Fame (TBHF) scholar.
William “Lin” Humphrey is a fourth-year marketing doctoral student focusing on firm strategy related to social media and mobile marketing and was named the Mobile Marketing Association’s 2011 Global Mobile Marketing Academic of [...]
May 22nd, 2013
Chancellor Provides State of the TTU System Address
TTU System presence has added more than 9,000 people in Lubbock since 2006.
May 22nd, 2013
Texas Tech Law Professor Tapped for Prestigious Health Fellowship
Texas Tech University School of Law professor Jennifer S. Bard will join a prestigious new residency program launched by the Network for Public Health Law and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Bard, the Alvin R. Allison Professor of Law and director of Texas Tech Law’s Health Law Program and J.D./M.D. Program, was one of six senior [...]
May 24th, 2013
Metze on Enforcing the Right to Counsel at Trial
Crime Prof Blog – Professor Metze takes a critical look at the historical and contemporary law on the right to counsel and the evolution of what measure the courts must use to review trial counsel’s performance. By the use of the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the courts have settled on the proper measure of counsel’s representation. Struggling with the new rights extended to former servants and slaves, the courts following the Civil War fought a slow but steady battle to implement the constitutional guarantees of the Bill of Rights to all citizens.
May 24th, 2013
Oklahoma Tornado Preparedness Lauded by Some, Questioned by Others
Property Casualty 360 – Aside from the issue of homes without shelters, a Reuters story addresses the fact that schools leveled by the Moore tornado did not have areas of refuge for those within. Reuters quotes Larry Tanner, research associate for the National Wind Institute at Texas Tech University who studies how shelters behave in fierce storms, as saying that public buildings should have shelters or safe rooms in areas prone to large storms. “Schools should all be built with shelters,” Tanner says, adding, “I would prefer my taxpayer money being directed toward shelters rather than AstroTurf on ball fields.”
May 24th, 2013
Taking Cover: A Guide to Tornado Shelters
en.Parset.com – If you do build a home storm shelter, its important to make sure the product has been tested and approved for use during tornadoes. Though FEMA issues guidelines for storm structures, the agency does not approve storm structures or the material used to construct them. Instead, most of the testing in the United States is conducted at the National Wind Institute at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
May 24th, 2013
IRS Safeguards Toothless in Tea Party Nonprofit Cases
Bloomberg -“They’re at such a high level, like a board of directors but without the powers of a board of directors,” said Camp, now a law professor at Texas Tech University. “They’re primarily a cheerleader for the service on budget issues.”
May 24th, 2013
Inside Higher Ed – What is clear is that Ph.D.s for artists are here for the long term. Besides the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts and Ohio University, Texas Tech University and the University of California at San Diego also offer these degree programs, and the United States is well behind the United Kingdom and Europe, where approximately 40 such programs have been in operation for years.
