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Dec 13, 2010
Ginger Kerrick, who earned her bachelor’s degree in physics in 1991 and a master’s degree in physics in 1993 from Texas Tech, is the first female Hispanic flight director at NASA.
tags: Academics, Alumni, Events, News Releases
Dec 13, 2010
Live Science - 'This is the first time this kind of pollution study has been done on a whole ocean level using a threatened species as a sentinel species,' said Celine Godard-Codding, the lead researcher and an environmental toxicologist at Texas Tech University.
tags: Texas Tech in the News
Dec 13, 2010
The Herald Sun - 'In our current hyper-low interest-rate environment, the burden of carrying a set amount of debt is much less than in previous decades,' said Dr. Russell James, an associate professor of personal financial planning at Texas Tech University. 'But ... the assets they set aside are also generating far less income than in previous decades.'
tags: Texas Tech in the News
Dec 13, 2010
Axis of Logic - Of course, climate change is not waiting for the outcome of all this negotiating hot air. The NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies released temperature data on Friday showing that 2010 boasted the warmest average temperatures worldwide since record-keeping began in the 19th century—a consequence of global warming and an El Nino. As geoscientist Katherine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University in Lubbock notes, ongoing greenhouse gas emissions have committed the world to at least 1.5 degree Celsius warming from pre-Industrial levels—a number that the Cancun Agreements urge consideration of as a future target 'on the basis of the best available scientific knowledge.'
tags: Texas Tech in the News