May 21st, 2012
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Recent News Releases 
May 21st, 2012
Texas Tech Receives Grant for Upward Bound
Program supports first-generation and underserved students getting to college.
May 16th, 2012
Texas Tech Announces Spring Commencement, Top Students
Two building benefactors will speak at graduation ceremonies.
May 15th, 2012
Astronaut Launches into Space and into Texas Tech Ph.D Program
The College of Education at Texas Tech University announced a NASA astronaut has been accepted to its doctoral program in education.
Joseph Acaba launched May 14 for a four-month tour of duty aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft as part of the team for Mission 31/32 to the International Space Station. He also has been accepted [...]
May 11th, 2012
Texas Tech Student Organizations, Advisors Honored with Awards
Texas Tech University’s annual Student Organization Recognition Awards were announced at the traditional Arbor Day ceremonies.
The Student Organization Recognition Awards recognizes advisors and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to the Texas Tech and greater Lubbock community.
Overall Student Organization of the Year is Tech Habitat for Humanity
Overall Most Improved Organization of the Year is RaiderThon.
Organization [...]
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May 18th, 2012
Texas Tech Will Perform Mozart Opera in Honduras
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.
May 18th, 2012
Rainfall brings hope to West Texas cotton producers
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.
May 14th, 2012
Officer: Military could learn from civilian courts
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.”
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.
May 10th, 2012
Following Science into the Eye of the Storm
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.