Academic:
Department of Biological Sciences Guest Speaker
Texas
Tech alumnus Clinton Kenneth Murray, Chief and Fellowship Director of
Infectious Disease at Brooke Army Medical Center and Director of
Multiple-drug Resistant Bacterial
Molecular Epidemiology Referral Laboratory at Fort Sam Houston will
speak at 4:00 pm, March 29, in the Experimental Sciences Building, Room
120. For more information contact The Center for the Integration of
Science Education & Research (CISER).
Honors College Events (remember there is no limit for hours on these):
HON Pizza with a Prof:
PWP
will be held March 22nd in CHEM 25 at 6pm. Remember that pizza is free
for members and $3 for non-members. Drinks are $.75 for everybody.
Please RSVP to
pizzawithaprof@yahoo.com
by March 20th at 10pm. Dr. Wong, from the TTU History Department, will
be presenting on history and popular culture, the hallowed halls of
education and the steaminess of daytime/nighttime/anytime
internet/cellphone/televise/cinematic enterprise, and the ways
in which we begin to bridge what we learn with what we see, what we do,
and what we live. For more information contact
paige.randle@ttu.edu
It’s not too late to join the Honors Book Club!
The Honors Book Club continues through April! If you would like to join us in reading our final book of the semester,
The
Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, plan to attend our meetings on Wednesday, April 4th and 18th from 4:00-5:00pm. And you can still make this week’s discussion for
The Phantom of the Opera this Wednesday, March 21st at 4:00-5:00pm in the Southwest Lounge of Knapp Hall! Please email
sarah.timmons@ttu.edu
to join or for more information.
Llano Estacado Winery Tour
Join
SAB as we tour a Lubbock winery. We will learn all about how the wine
is made and distributed. We will even get to taste a few of the wines
afterwards! The
winery tour is Saturday, March 24th at 12pm. We will meet at McClellan
Hall at 11:15am. To attend this event you must RSVP to
lindzi.shanks@ttu.edu
by March 22nd. All ages are allowed to attend this event; however, you
must be 21 or older to participate in the wine tasting portion.
Lunch Discussion
This
week’s discussion will be led by Professor Brian Shannon from the TTU
School of Law. Professor Shannon serves as the Faculty Athletics
Representative to the NCAA/Big 12
for Texas Tech and his topic relates to his role. Here is what he has
to say:
The
NCAA Board of Directors (on which President Bailey serves) recently
adopted academic reforms that will likely have a substantial impact in
future years. I will provide
a few highlights and address how they might impact future championships
such as the NCAA’s March Madness tournaments in men’s and women’s
basketball.
For some background information:
In
addition, although we are of course in the midst of NCAA basketball’s
March Madness, there has been significant discussion in the last few
months about a possible playoff
system for major college football. Academic issues pertaining to these
topics are often not discussed or raised, but should they have
relevance?
Consider:
This
latter document is a statement by the 1A FAR association, which is an
organization of faculty athletics representatives at NCAA Division I
institutions in the Football
Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division 1A. The mission of the 1A
Faculty Athletics Representatives is to advocate for effective
interaction and academic and fiscal balance between an institution's
academic mission and its intercollegiate program. I serve
as the Big 12 Conference’s representative to the national board.
Lunch
Discussion is held every Friday from 12:00-1:00 pm in the Horn/Knapp
Residence Hall southwest lobby lounge. Enter the building through the
west-facing central doors (facing
the band practice parking lot) and turn right to find the lounge. Food
and great discussion are always provided!
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