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Wind Researchers Receive $1.4 Million for Innovative Project
Small adjustments to existing wind farms could be worth millions of dollars. Texas Tech University researchers will receive $1.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a new radar...
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Research Team Stumbles Upon Brightest Pulsar Recorded
Astronomers have found a pulsating, dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns. This is the brightest pulsar – a dense stellar remnant left over from a supernova explosion – ever...
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Architecture Faculty, Students Help Develop Lubbock Homeless Facility
An artist rendering of the High Cotton Center. At the corner of East 13th Street and Avenue A in Lubbock sits an old cotton gin at the front of a large lot. On the back of that lot are several tents...
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Second Annual Start-Up Accelerator Opens Applications
Written by Will Lowry Applications for the Texas Tech University Office of Technology Commercialization’s second annual TECHCELERATOR program opened to community entrepreneurs and students Oct. 1. The...
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NBC Learn Higher Ed Available to University Community
NBC Learn Higher Ed is a collection of videos, documents and images from the NBC News historical archives for classroom and online use. The Texas Tech University Office of the Provost today announced...
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IHS Inc. Provides Petroleum Engineering with $1.25 Million Software
Terry Fuller Petroleum Engineering Research Building Whitacre College of Engineering students at Texas Tech University will now have access to a powerful software tool for geological, engineering and...
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Noyce Grant Funds Program Encouraging STEM Students Interested in Teaching
Texas Tech University has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Noyce scholarship grant valued at almost $800,000 to continue a fellowship program in collaboration with Lubbock Independent...
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Researchers Help Ease Water Woes
2011 was the driest year on record for Texas, and many farmers on the South Plains became more reliant on groundwater from the Ogallala Aquifer. But researchers from Texas Tech University teamed up...
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Survey: Public Relations Reps are Knowledgeable but also Unethical
What does the public think of PR practitioners? For years, public relations practitioners have struggled to find the exact, aptly descriptive definition for what it is they do. What may be worse,...
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Nutritional Sciences Researcher Looking for New Ways to Treat Cancer
Could Selenium be the newest weapon in the battle against breast cancer? Julian Spallholz has an old black and white picture above his desk. It looks like a collection of red blood cells, yet they all...
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Professor Selected to Help Implement Braille Changes
Implementation of the new braille language will begin next year. Professor Rona Pogrund is representing Texas Tech University in a stakeholders meeting Nov. 4-5 in Austin to discuss how the state will...
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Retail Management Program Wins Grant from Cotton Incorporated
The grant, which Texas Tech has received for two years, funds a class on retail trends. The Retail Management program in Texas Tech University’s College of Human Sciences is offering a special class...
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President Nellis Named Member of Intellectual Property Task Force
Texas Tech University President M. Duane Nellis has been named to the Managing University Intellectual Property task force created by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU). The...
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USDA Honors Professor with Excellence in Teaching Award
Chance Brooks Chance Brooks, an associate professor of meat science in the Department of Animal and Food Science at Texas Tech University, received the United States Department of Agriculture Food and...
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Burkhart Center Celebrates First Year in New Building
Burkart Center for Autism Education and Research The day before Halloween, the students at the Burkhart Center for Autism’s Transition Academy were busy preparing for their Halloween party. Students...
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Research Team Awarded $1 Million for Collaborative Plant Investigation
Jyotsna Sharma Jyotsna Sharma, an assistant professor of plant ecology and conservation in the Department of Plant and Soil Science at Texas Tech University, will lead a collaborative investigation on...
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Research Fellow Studies Star Power of Galaxies
Paul Sell A postdoctoral research fellow at Texas Tech University recently led an effort exploring the evolution of galaxies and why some evolve from ones full of life to passive, star graveyards. One...
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Texas Tech Set to Host Second TEDx Conference
The second annual TEDx Texas Tech University conference will take place Feb. 28 in the Allen Theatre of the Student Union Building. Texas Tech TEDx organizers are looking for speakers and presenters...
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Ask the Experts: Nutritionist Discusses Role of Diet in Diabetes Treatment
The number of Americans with diabetes has more than tripled. Over the last three decades, the number of Americans with diabetes has more than tripled. One in three American adults has prediabetes....
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New Associate Vice President for Research Named
Patricia DeLucia Patricia R. DeLucia has been appointed associate vice president for research for faculty affairs. The appointment was announced today (Nov. 14) by Robert V. Duncan, Texas Tech...
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