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A new study from two Texas Tech University researchers shows the men most likely to use energy drinks to boost their performance are losing sleep because of their consumption.

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Debra Reed and Allison Childress talk about common misconceptions that lead people to overlook smart eating in December.

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Quantitative specialist Todd Little is director of IMMAP, an innovative statistical analysis center he pioneered at Texas Tech.

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Professor Miguel Aguirre-Urreta and his colleagues investigated the advantages and perceptions of pair programming from the programmer’s standpoint.

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Deena Katz, a certified financial planner and professor of personal financial planning at Texas Tech, is on the InvestmentNews inaugural Women to Watch list.

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Women with multiple tattoos report higher self-esteem than anyone else in the study and escalating acquisition of body art does not correlate with increased depression or suicide ideation. However, the same multi-tattooed women also report a much higher frequency of past suicide attempts.

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In light of upcoming mandated teacher reform, Texas Tech, with funding from the Gates Foundation, is creating a center to help other universities change their teacher preparation programs.

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Jennifer Vanos with the Climate Science Center led the team that found very hot temperatures on playgrounds.

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A Texas Tech University professor garnered national attention in her field when she openly questioned whether she was a bad or imperfect feminist. She unveiled complex challenges of conducting feminist research within the backdrop of post-feminist, neoliberal sensibilities.

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In their soon-to-be-published study, two Texas Tech University researchers said some of the venomous contents in the bats’ saliva likely evolved by recruiting ancestral genes to produce new transcript molecules rather than by creating completely new gene sequences.

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A dozen faculty members and graduate students from Texas Tech are heading to Los Angeles to participate in The Obesity Society’s flagship research conference.

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Educational psychologist Patricia Hawley, who researches bullying, power and aggression, led a workshop for 120 student teachers discussing how to recognize bullying and what to do about it when they see it.

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The Women's Studies Program at Texas Tech will have a 15-hour certificate that allows students to focus on women's issues, health and security and includes a one-month service learning project in an emerging nation.

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The partnership with the Center for BrainHealth at UT-Dallas is designed to give first-year law students the tools necessary to maximize mental efficiency.

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The Institute for the Study of Addiction, Recovery, & Families houses three centers, each with a different focus on community and family systems.

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The Water Resources Center and CASNR Water Center help promote water quality research through collaboration to preserve the region’s fresh water sources.

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Prior to new education standards coming in 2017, two Texas Tech educators are offering advice to teacher education programs in other states on the process of reform.

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Florentia Spires and Jacqueline Fernandez-Romero, both educators in the D.C. area and graduate students in Texas Tech's Global PRiSE program, received honors from the White House and the National Science Teachers Association.

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A study by animal behavior expert John McGlone theorizes cats scratch more due to pheromones left behind from previous cat scratching.

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Nikhil Dhurandhar, who was a pioneer of the concept that obesity is more complex than calories in versus calories out, has found a protein in an obesity-causing virus that may change how we treat diabetes.

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The station is a part of the Texas Tech University Center at Junction, a dedicated research and educational facility on the banks of the South Llano River.

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Non-heterosexual women who feel a disconnect between who they are attracted to and how they identify themselves may have a higher risk of alcohol abuse, according to a new study led by Amelia E. Talley, an assistant professor in Texas Tech University’s Department of Psychological Sciences.

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Nicholas Johnston, a graduate student at Texas Tech, won the Wine Market Council's first research grant to study how millennials interact with wine packaging and other marketing.

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The results of a recent study on targeted therapy of a specific type of brain cancer were published by Nature Medicine showing specific progress in cancer treatment.

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From infrastructure to climate change, the disaster impacts areas of daily life.

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Along the way, the investigation sheds light on the long-held urban myth of the fluidity of stained glass.

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Texas Tech professors Deena Katz and Harold Evensky were named to a national list of influencers in the financial planning industry

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For the first time, Texas Tech turned to Snapchat to help admitted students feel connected to the university and encourage them to attend in the fall.

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Faculty and staff recall the night of the F5 tornado and how the experience emphasized the need for wind research with regard to safety, shelter and construction.

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The study examined aggressive behavior between subjects playing games cooperatively, competitively and by themselves.

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Dr. Shu Wang will research the effectiveness of delivering an anti-obesity compound directly to fat cells through nanotechnology.

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