TTAA Latest News | May102013 | Texas Tech Chancellor, A.D. and Coach All Visit Lakes Chapter of Tech Alumni The Texas Tech alumni group that spans Breckenridge, Olney, Newcastle and Graham, known as the Lakes Chapter, warmly welcomed Texas Tech chancellor Kent Hance, athletic director Kirby Hocutt and new head football coach Kliff Kingsbury to a gathering that featured an auction of Red Raider memorabilia and Sonny's barbecue Wednesday night at the Graham Senior Citizen Center. |
| | May092013 | New Faculty Awards One of the most vital assets at any university is the faculty and the TTAA is dedicated to helping Texas Tech attract and retain the best faculty members. The Texas Tech Alumni Association established the New Faculty Awards program in 1987 to recognize outstanding new members of the faculty in each college and the School of Law. |
| | May082013 | Texas Tech Libraries Receives Award The Texas Tech Libraries Communications and Marketing department received the 2013 John Cotton Dana Award from the American Library Association for outstanding library public relations. |
| | May082013 | Texas Tech Libraries Receives Award The Texas Tech Libraries Communications and Marketing department received the 2013 John Cotton Dana Award from the American Library Association for outstanding library public relations. |
| | May072013 | Red Raider Honored at Conference Texas Tech University alum Steven Gamble, Ph.D., was honored with the 2013 E. Joseph Savoie Leadership Award at the District IV Conference of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in Fort Worth. |
| | May072013 | Academic Achievement, Honor Rings True for 400 Ring Recipients More than 400 students were honored during the Spring Ring Ceremonies on Monday, April 29, and Tuesday, April 30. Co-hosted by the Texas Tech Alumni Association and the Student Alumni Board, members of university administration presented Official Texas Tech Class Ring to each ring recipient. |
| | May062013 | CoMC Honors Dean for 35 Years of Service, Hosts Retirement Reception It has been 35 years since Dean Jerry Hudson first came to Texas Tech as an assistant professor for telecommunications. Now, the founding dean of the College of Media and Communication will retire after the spring semester, and was honored during a retirement reception on Thursday. |
| | Apr172013 | Record Crowd Anticipated for Saturday's Spring Game The fever pitch surrounding Texas Tech Football has athletics department and university officials planning for the largest attendance at the spring football game in school history this Saturday afternoon at Jones AT&T Stadium. |
| | Apr162013 | In His Own Words: Baron Batch When Baron Batch returned to Lubbock as the featured artist at the 35th Lubbock Arts Festival in April, he spoke with the Texas Tech Alumni Association. Batch said he learned as much about growing up while a Texas Tech student as he learned in the classroom. |
| | Apr112013 | Texas Tech Grad Appointed New Kaufman County District Attorney Governor Rick Perry has appointed Erleigh Norville Wiley of Forney as Kaufman County District Attorney for a term to expire at the next general election. Wiley received a bachelor's degree from Texas Tech University and a law degree from The University of Texas School of Law. |
| | Apr032013 | Tubby Takes Over at Texas Tech Tubby Smith was introduced as the new men's basketball coach at Texas Tech during a news conference in Lubbock on Tuesday, April 2. |
| | Mar152013 | Texas Tech Named to Community Service Honor Roll Texas Tech was named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The honor roll recognizes higher education institutions that reflect the values of exemplary community service and achieve meaningful outcomes in their communities. |
| | Mar152013 | Texas Tech Alum Rachel Moore Leads Robotics Team for At-Risk Youth While at Texas Tech University, Rachel Moore spent three summers working as a Texas Instruments co-op and founded a FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) robotics team. Moore, who has been involved with the FIRST program for 14 years, now shares her passion for robotics and engineering with 10-15 students on a team for at-risk youths, offered as an after-school program by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas. |
| | Mar142013 | Texas Tech Physicists: Higgs Boson Likely Discovered Members of Texas Tech University’s High Energy Physics Group working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, (CERN) said the particle collider charged with finding the most basic form of matter has most likely discovered the elusive “God” particle after all. |
| | Mar122013 | Texas Tech to host annual Conference on Women in Higher Education The theme of this year's Women in Higher Ed conference is “Women and Global Change: Achieving Peace through Empowering Women, Part II.” The conference will explore the peace-building work of women, including core of movements for social, political and economic change. |
| | Mar012013 | Georgia O'Keeffe: The Art of Desolation Texas Tech University’s Jack Becker and Paul Carlson delve into Georgia O’Keeffe’s years in the Texas Panhandle in their new book, “Georgia O’Keeffe in Texas: A Guide.” |
| | Feb272013 | Spring Graduation Fair Is there a commencement in your future? Make plans now to attend the spring Graduation Fair. And they aren't just for seniors. Try on class rings and make plans for that special day! |
| | Feb262013 | FSN To Air 1993 Texas Tech Championship Documentary The feature documentary chronicling the 1993 Texas Tech women’s basketball team’s journey to the NCAA national title will follow the Lady Raiders game against Kansas at 2 p.m. CT Sunday on FOX Sports Southwest. |
| | Feb202013 | 2013 Football Spring Game Set For April 20 Mark your calendars! The 2013 Texas Tech Spring Game will kickoff at 1 p.m. at Jones AT&T Stadium and will be televised live by Texas Tech TV on Fox Sports Southwest. Admission will be free. Strive for honor, boys! |
| | Feb152013 | Magazine Ranks Texas Tech Among Top Law Schools The Texas Tech University School of Law placed No. 9 in overall quality and No. 2 for student satisfaction in two newly created rankings released in National Jurist magazine’s Best Law Schools 2013. |
| | Feb082013 | Texas Tech System Surpasses $1 Billion Goal in Campaign Officials at the Texas Tech University System announced that its capital campaign and most ambitious fundraising effort has crossed the $1 billion mark nearly a year ahead of schedule. Vision & Tradition: The Campaign for Texas Tech surpassed its $1 billion goal with the support of more than 120,000 donors, making it the most successful capital campaign in the history of the Texas Tech University System. |
| | Feb072013 | Texas Tech Signs 2013 Football Signees Texas Tech Football Coach Kliff Kingsbury announced the signing of 23 student-athletes as part of his first signing class as head coach of the Red Raiders. |
| | Feb072013 | Texas Tech Meat Judging Team Wins in Fort Worth Texas Tech University’s Meat Judging Team enjoyed a 96-point victory Monday, Feb. 4 at the Southwestern Livestock Exposition’s Intercollegiate Meat Judging Contest in Fort Worth. The team dominated almost every division, winning the reasons, placings, total beef, specifications, beef judging, lamb judging and beef grading divisions. |
| | Feb052013 | Texas Tech Sets New Spring Enrollment Record Texas Tech has set another spring enrollment record. The university topped last spring’s record of 30,102 students, reaching 30,399 students enrolled as of the 12th day of classes |
| | Jan312013 | Texas Tech ROTC Wins Over Miss Texas With YouTube Video Luke Guffey, a Texas Tech ROTC student, created a parody of a popular Old Spice commercial and posted it on YouTube as a way to invite Texas Tech law student, Denae Couch, to an upcoming military ball. Couch is the reigning Miss Texas and was a finalist in this year's Miss America pageant. |
| | Jan302013 | Texas Tech Alum Joins Thornton Tomasetti as Chief Learning Officer Thornton Tomasetti, an international engineering firm, announced Texas Tech University alumnus Leigh Mires as the new chief learning officer for the firm. Ms. Mires, who has more than 20 years of experience, is charged with advancing the firm’s organizational development and training initiatives. |
| | Jan292013 | New National Board Members Elected The Texas Tech Alumni Association National Board of Directors elected three new members to the board. Michelle Bleiberg, Nancy Birdwell and Paul Foster began serving their 3-year term in January. |
| | Jan242013 | Amarillo Attorney Gains Certification Amarillo lawyer Joshua R. Woodburn, a graduate of Texas Tech University, was certified by the The Texas Board of Legal Specialization in the area of family law. |
| | Jan182013 | Collective Cultures Collide in an Original Texas Tech Musical Production. "Dancing at the Crossroads: A Celebration of Anglo-Celtic and African-American Dance in the New World” will premiere Feb. 1-2 and 8-9 at the Christine DeVitt Icehouse Theater on the LHUCA campus, located at 511 Ave. J. Christopher J. Smith, the director of the university’s Vernacular Music Center, said singers, players, dancers and storytellers will present a fully staged dance/theater narrative relating the mythic history of the encounter of these two great vernacular performance traditions in the New World, which includes blues, jazz, hip-hop, New Orleans, Irish, English, Scottish and Caribbean music and dance. |
| | Jan152013 | Brian Hanni and Jamie Lent Join Tech Baseball Broadcast Team Texas Tech Sports Network (Learfield Sports) has added two members to its Red Raider baseball radio broadcast team as Brian Hanni has been named the radio play-by-play voice of Red Raider baseball and Texas Tech alumnus Jamie Lent will join Mike Gustafson as a color analyst for the 2013 season. |
| | Jan112013 | Tech Baseball Alumni Game & First Pitch Dinner Set for Jan. 26 The Texas Tech baseball program will host its fourth annual alumni baseball game and FirstBank & Trust First Pitch Dinner on January 26. The alumni game, scheduled for 1 p.m. at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park, will feature the 2013 Red Raiders against former Red Raiders who played Major League Baseball and numerous current minor league players. |
| | Jan112013 | Texas Tech's Online Programs among Nation’s Best Texas Tech University’s eLearning Program is ranked 11th overall among online colleges on the annual list of top online universities as ranked by SR Education Group’s flagship site, Guide to Online Schools. |
| | Jan102013 | Giovannetti Steps Down as Voice of Red Raider Baseball Giovannetti, 1986 graduate of Texas Tech, spent five seasons in the broadcast booth as play-by-play radio voice of Tech baseball. He also spent five and a half years as host of the popular weekday sports talk show "Tech Talk" on Double T 104.3 FM and was the sports director at FOX 34 for a year and a half. |
| | Jan072013 | Career Center Open for Nursing Students and Alumni The School of Nursing recently opened a new Career Services Center to provide programs and services to empower students and alumni to actively explore, pursue and implement career and education decisions. |
| | Dec132012 | 2012 Distinguished Alumni Bear Our Banners Far and Wide What do a NASA flight director, the leader of one of the largest family-owned businesses in the building materials industry and a former Texas Tech University president have in common? They were all recipients of the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Awards — the highest honor bestowed by the Texas Tech Alumni Association and the University. |
| | Dec132012 | Happy Holidays from Our Family to Yours We hope your holidays are filled with joy. The Texas Tech Alumni Association administrative offices will close at 5 p.m. on Dec. 21 and reopen at 8 a.m. on Jan. 2. |
| | Dec112012 | Holiday Gift Ideas Don't fight the crowds this holiday season! The Texas Tech Alumni Association has many unique gift ideas for your friends and family and all proceeds support the Texas Tech Alumni Association. |
| | Dec052012 | 2012 Distinguished Alumni Bear Our Banners Far and Wide What do a NASA flight director, the leader of one of the largest family-owned businesses in the building materials industry and a former Texas Tech University president have in common? They were all recipients of the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Awards — the highest honor bestowed by the Texas Tech Alumni Association and the University. |
| | Nov202012 | Class Notes: Do Tell! If you don't tell us about your engagement, big promotion or newest family addition, we can't brag about it! |
| | Nov162012 | Fall 2012 Official Ring Presentation Ceremonies Official ring recipients will be honored at two special ceremonies on Nov. 26 and 27 at the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center where they will be presented with their class rings by university dignitaries. Much like a commencement ceremony, family and friends are invited to attend this special tradition that serves to honor each ring recipient and to pass on the importance of all that the Official Class ring symbolizes: loyalty, tradition, service, honor and lifelong relationships. |
| | Nov052012 | Raiders to the Rescue When it comes to supporting other Red Raiders, the Red and Black network runs deep for our friends in the military. |
| | Nov052012 | Texas Tech Diploma Frames Give Back Whether you're looking for a gift for the graduate in your life or know someone who could use some extra cash for tuition, the Texas Tech Alumni Association has you covered. |
| | Nov052012 | White Zin is Back! Light, aromatic and crisp, 2012 Texas Raider White Zinfandel is ready just in time for those special holiday meals. |
| | Oct312012 | How Does Your Campus Glow? Before you’ve even contemplated Thanksgiving plans or begun your Christmas shopping, the production of Texas Tech’s most glowing tradition, Carol of Lights, is well underway. |
| | Oct192012 | Boo to You! If you’re headed to Lubbock next week, be sure to pack your kiddos’ Halloween costumes! Friday, Oct. 26, The National Ranching Heritage Center is hosting the 6th annual Heritage Halloween. |
| | Oct172012 | Texas Tech Retires Midnight Matador The 13th horse in the Masked Rider program is the longest-serving mascot in the school's history. He will be honored in an official ceremony at the final home game against Kansas on Nov. 10. |
| | Oct172012 | Class Twists and Turns Into New Autism Therapy Speech therapy graduate students at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center have turned a popular form of dance into an outlet to improve a variety of skills for autistic children. |
| | Oct112012 | Red Raiders Paint San Marcos Red and Black The San Antonio and Austin TTAA chapters organized Little Lubbock in the middle of a Texas State parking lot in San Marcos. $4,000 was raised for scholarships and approximately 2,000 people were in attendance. |
| | Sep202012 | Fall Graduation Fair Is there a commencement in your future? Make plans now to attend the fall Graduation Fair. |
| | Sep142012 | New Dean Talks Future of Rawls College of Business The 10th dean of the Texas Tech Rawls College of Business is putting a new spin on the university’s motto of “From here, it’s possible.” For Lance Nail, “From here, it’s more than possible. It’s expected.” |
| | Sep072012 | OLLI, by Golly! OLLI–short for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at The Texas Tech University–offers a fascinating variety of courses geared toward the 50 and older set. |
| | Aug242012 | Texas Tech Alumni Association Honors 2012 Top Techsans A Texas Tech-sized congratulations to the 2012 winners of the Top Techsan Award! The Top Techsan Award, first given in 1973, honors staff of Texas Tech University for extraordinary work proficiency and an attitude of team spirit. |
| | Jul252012 | Red Raiders Vie for Olympic Gold Texas Tech boasts seven Red Raiders who will compete in this summer’s 2012 Olympic Games in London. The Games begin Friday, July 27, and continue through Sunday, Aug. 12. This gives you seven more reasons to Get Your Guns Up! |
| | Jul192012 | Alumna Susan Graham Honored for Extraordinary Contributions to the World of Opera The Merola Opera Program presented mezzo-soprano Susan Graham with the Merola Distinguished Alumni Award at a private reception on Saturday, July 14th. The award, which has only been given out six times in the program’s 54 year history, is given to recognize extraordinary contributions to the world of opera by graduates of the Merola Opera Program. Born in New Mexico and raised in Texas, Susan Graham studied at Texas Tech University and received the 2001 Distinguished Alumni Award — the highest honor bestowed by the Texas Tech Alumni Association and the University. |
| | Jul102012 | "Any Questions?" New book from TTU Alumnus Ralph Jarvis fuses two business ideas into one solution. |
| | Jul092012 | Reaching Toward Tier One Status Achieving Tier One status will benefit the university in many ways, including increasing the value of every Texas Tech degree. |
| | Jul032012 | Operation Green Zone Texas Tech has implemented programs that make men and women who have served our country feel welcome. |
| | Jun272012 | The Red Raider Tradition: Pass it On! The Texas Tech Alumni Association’s Legacy Program is a tradition to last generations–welcome your children and grandchildren into the Texas Tech family early. |
| | Jun272012 | Need a Job? The Texas Tech Alumni Association is proud to partner with the Texas Tech University Career Center to offer special services to our members seeking a new job or career. |
| | Jun212012 | Texas Tech Alum Featured in Texas Monthly Between Hell and Texas: Once, state photographer Wyman Meinzer was known for his beautiful landscapes. Last year, as drought ravaged the land, his job description seemed to change. |
| | Jun112012 | Justice, Heroes and Research Red Raiders raise the “Bar” and cheat death in a WW II POW camp; Dr. Bailey’s map to Tier 1 are all in the next Texas Techsan magazine! |
| | Jun112012 | HSC to Launch MommyMeds Mobile App Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and the InfantRisk Center plans to release a consumer version of its medication safety app for pregnant and breastfeeding women. |
| | May042012 | 2012 Masters Tournament Trip: Bucket List Realized As a lifelong golf fan, attending The Masters has always been one of those items high on Brent Ross' sports bucket list. Our vice president of marketing had the chance to preview what winners of Texas Tech Alumni Association Masters Golf Raffle get to enjoy. |
| | Apr262012 | Spring 2012 Official Ring Presentation Ceremonies Official ring recipients will be honored at two special ceremonies on April 30 and May 1 at the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center where they will be presented with their class rings by university dignitaries. Much like a commencement ceremony, family and friends are invited to attend this special tradition that serves to honor each ring recipient and to pass on the importance of all that the Official Class ring symbolizes: loyalty, tradition, service, honor and lifelong relationships. |
| | Mar132012 | Don't miss another issue of the Texas Techsan! Join or renew today to make sure you receive the May/June issue. It's packed full of interesting news such as an overview of the new Rawls College of Business Administration building with many photos of the new facility. |
| | Mar072012 | PR News to Induct Texas Tech Alumna into Hall of Fame Linda Burke Rutherford, a 1988 graduate and member of the TTAA National Board of Directors, will be one of six new Measurement Hall of Fame inductees at PR News’ PR Measurement Conference on April 18 in Washington, D.C. |
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