Are jealousy and greed enough to cause a father to allow his son to die? That is the question regarding Charles Wilson Peale posed by a Texas Tech Univeristy art historian. The mystery contains controversy & intrique.
Researchers are narrowing the gap between sorghum that dies prematurely and lines of the crop that seem to display "stay-green" characteristics allowing plants to mature normally in high-heat areas, and creating higher yield for producers.
Researchers at Texas Tech University are touting a longer staple cotton that could open new markets for the Texas crop. The new breed may allow cotton farmers to broaden their demand base and markets for the crops before they are ever produced.
Texas Tech Medical Center researchers have discovered that interrupting bacteria cell communication may significantly reduce infections in burn wounds.
Texas Tech wind researchers traveled to the Oklahoma City area to survey damage and find additional ways to save lives. In Del City, Okla., they located an in-residence shelter that survived the storm and withstood the devastating winds of Monday's deadly tornado.
Texas Tech University's Wind Engineering Research Center experts have arrived in Oklahoma to perform damage documentation on the tornado that struck Oklahoma City.
Preliminary results of a study conducted by Texas Tech University, of how electrical power deregulation may affect the Texas High Plains economy, show there could be a negative impact on agriculture and related businesses.
Agricultural economics researchers at Texas Tech University recently completed a study to evaluate the demand for cotton gin waste as a roughage ingredient to cattle feed at feedlots. The study shows that use of gin trash in cattle feed can reduce the cost of the feed as much as 5 percent.
Animal scientists at Texas Tech University are exploring methods that could produce beef at higher standards of quality and consistency. They also are investigating techniques to make beef products safer for consumers.
Texas Tech researchers are preaching the gospel of fire. With a newly created Fire Ecology Center, the scientists hope to inform the public about the benefits controlled burns have for ecosystems and their inhabitants.
The medical community is slowly accepting that nutrition and gender play a role in disease process. As part of this, a researcher at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center has co-authored a book which examines the roles gender and nutrition play in women's cancer.
To help people with chronic pain, a psychologist at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center has developed a program combining both yoga and meditation with remarkable results. Over 80% of the participants reported more effective stress and pain management.
Texas Tech University's FutureCar Research is receiving an energy boost from Energy Partners, Inc. of West Palm Beach, Fla. The company is donating a hydrogen-powered fuel cell that Texas Tech will install in a Chevrolet Lumina when the cell arrives the first week of December.
To help treat chronic pain patients, a Texas Tech Medical Center psychologist has developed an effective pain/stress management program which combines both meditation and yoga exercises with medical and psychological treatment. 85 percent of participants who used meditation practices to self-regulate pain reported a relief from symtpoms.
The once-maligned castor bean may be the next heavy hitter in cancer treatment, according to ongoing research at Texas Tech University and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
A study by Texas Tech Medical Center researchers has pinpointed two fungi as possible causes for sick building syndrome, according to a study, published by the Occupational and Environmental Medicine journal .
Hurricane Bonnie will provide scientists with an opportunity to document the nature of severe winds. Texas Tech scientists will position themselves in the path of the hurricane to collect wind data using a portable experimental wind tower.
After 21/2 weeks at Texas Tech University, Zhang Jin Zhi said American higher education is superior to Chinese. ''American is better. In Chinese class, we learn more knowledge, but in American class, we learn to practice it.''
Texas and many other states in the South that are currently suffering through drought conditions may be better prepared to handle future droughts due to a weather tracking system Texas Tech University researchers are developing.
Researchers from Texas Tech University say current drought conditions across the southern region of the United States may continue straight through the winter months, meaning less chance of rain and dismal prospects for 1999 agricultural crops.
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