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Aug 27, 2020
Researchers from Texas Tech University deployed StickNet platforms to measure wind speeds in hopes to better understand and prepare for future storms.
tags: Staff, Wind, Videos, Research, Faculty, Degrees of Impact, Students, Vice President for Research, Feature Stories, Graduate School, Experts, College of Arts and Sciences, Stories
Aug 26, 2020
Washington Post - Across the United States, there are signs of climate disaster. In California, two of the worst wildfires in the state’s history took place simultaneously, scorching more than a million acres of land, including a beloved forested national park. On the Gulf Coast, residents of Louisiana and Texas braced for an unprecedented double-hurricane event churned up by exceptionally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico — the first luckily petered out at sea, but the second, Tropical Storm Laura, is predicted to make landfall late Wednesday after leading to deadly floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Aug 25, 2020
Washington Post - The cartoon flashed across Katharine Hayhoe’s social media timeline in mid-July: Two doctors in lab coats scrutinize a box labeled “covid-19 science" while one says to the other, “As long as we just provide the FACTS to the American people.” Next to them, a pair of climate scientists are clutching their stomachs and laughing themselves to tears.
tags: College of Arts and Sciences, Texas Tech in the News, COVID-19
Aug 25, 2020
The program was recognized by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine and received the Inspiring Programs in STEM Award.
tags: College of Arts and Sciences, Provost, Stories, Academics, Achievements, Campus Access and Engagement