Graduate Expo at Texas Tech

Are you interested in graduate school?  Texas Tech University is having a Graduate Expo on April 6th.  This campus event will feature all of the masters and doctoral programs that Texas Tech has to offer.  You can also find out about scholarships and grants that are available for Fall 2013.

The Graduate School at Texas Tech University is hosting its first Red Raider Graduate Expo April 6 across the Texas Tech Campus.

“We are hard at work to make the graduate experience at Texas Tech the richest that it can be, and to provide opportunities that we hope will make a real difference in students’ quality of life,” said Interim Dean Dominick Casadonte.

The Texas Tech Graduate School offers 103 master’s programs and 59 doctoral programs within 65 specialized research centers and institutes. Texas Tech was elevated to National Research University status by the Texas State Legislature in 2012 and offers teaching and research opportunities to its graduate students.

The Red Raider Expo will allow potential students to get an in-depth preview of the offerings available at the Texas Tech Graduate School. Representatives from the nine colleges as well as Graduate School Admissions, University Housing, Hospitality, International Affairs, Student Health, Human Resources, the Graduate Student Association and other student academic service groups will be present.

The schedule is as follows:
8:30 a.m.-Check-in is in the Student Union Building (SUB) near the food court
9 a.m.-Welcome from university president and dean of graduate school at Allen Theatre in the SUB
10 a.m.-Campus tour
11 a.m.-Academic tour and information session
12:30 p.m.-Lunch
1:30 p.m.-Resource fair
2 p.m.-Optional tours, options include the Library, Housing, Wellness Center, Recreational Center

(Note: All afternoon events will be held in the Matador Room on the second floor of the SUB.)

Scholarships, grants and fellowships are currently available for the fall 2013 semester. Forbes magazine and the Fiske Guide to Colleges recently ranked Texas Tech among the best buys in American higher education.

“Whether you are pursuing an MBA degree, working on advancing quantum dynamics or solving the global energy problem, we believe that at Texas Tech you will find a home to do your best work,” said Interim President Lawrence Schovanec and Casadonte in a joint statement.

To register for the expo or to obtain more information about the Graduate School, visit http://www.ttu.edu/gradexpo or email Shannon Samson at shannon.samson@ttu.edu.
Are you interested in graduate school?  Texas Tech University is having a Graduate Expo on April 6th.  This campus event will feature all of the masters and doctoral programs that Texas Tech has to offer.  You can also find out about scholarships and grants that are available for Fall 2013.

DIY Kitchen Chair

Do your kitchen chairs need a little sprucing up?  Check out this do-it-yourself project.  You can turn that boring kitchen chair into a piece of art with a few simple steps.  You can find more projects at HomeLife.

What you will need

• Round timber chair
• Tape measure
• Pencil
• Drill
• White plastic clothesline cord
• Staple gun
• Scissors
• 3mm jumbo ‘Sgetti’ plastic string in white, neon blue, light pink and yellow ($9.90 for 25 yard roll from Craft.com.au)

Step-by-step

1.

Remove seat top from chair leaving bare circular frame. Paint to match chair if necessary.

2.

Measure circular frame. Divide diameter evenly into eight sections marking points with pencil.

3.

Drill holes slightly larger than clothesline cord right through circular frame from outside in at marked points.

4.

Next create a rigid second frame to weave through. Knot end of cord length and thread through first hole from the inside of circular frame out. Stretch tightly over frame and thread through hole directly opposite from outside in. Thread cord through adjacent hole from inside out continuing around circular frame to form an astericks pulling tightly as you go.

5.

Turn chair upside down and staple cord generously to inside of circular frame to secure. Trim the cord. Tie Sgetti to one piece of clothesline cord at central meeting point. Begin clockwise weaving process by stretching Sgetti across to adjacent cord, wrapping around it once before continuing on to following cord.

6.

To change colours knot Sgetti underneath after wrapping once around cord and continue weaving process.

DIY St. Patrick's Day

Are you having a St. Patrick's Day Party, or are you attending one?  These DIY Crafts are super easy to make, and they will help you figure out whose drink is whose.  All you need is some different color card stock, scissors, and straws.   You can follow the directions below and make the straws in different colors.  This way you know what drink belongs to everyone.  For more great DIY St. Patty's Day crafts, you can click on Martha Stewart.



As a nod to Saint Patrick's Day, let your kids create their own luck with four-leaf-clover straw toppers. Shamrocks fashioned from green card stock make for an instantly festive table.

Tools and Materials

Card stock
Scissors
Bendable drinking straws, in green

Shamrock Straw Toppers How-To

1. Cut card stock into 5-inch squares.
2. Fold each square in half diagonally, creating a triangle, and then fold in half once more to make a smaller triangle. Trim off outer points as indicated.
3. Unfold paper halfway, as shown. Cut a small V at the bottom, in the center.
4. Unfold shamrock, and crease diagonally, reversing the direction of the fold; repeat to make another diagonal crease. Slide card-stock shamrock onto one end of a green straw. Make a wish, and have a sip!

Texas Tech and Lubbock Combine Efforts

  Texas Tech and the Lubbock Independent School District, along with multiple community partners celebrated today (Feb. 15) the award of a $24.5 million Promise Neighborhoods grant, originally announced in December 2012 by the U.S. Department of Education.

As one of only seven Promise Neighborhood implementation grantees from across the nation, East Lubbock Promise Neighborhood consortium will receive the funding over the next five years.

“Community outreach and engagement is one of the strategic priorities for Texas Tech,” said Interim President Lawrence Schovanec. “We appreciate this opportunity to work with so many community partners to enhance the education and well being for our young people. The efforts of all those involved reflects a shared dedication and commitment to providing the very best opportunities for our youth and strengthening our community.”

The consortium is a collaboration of the Lubbock ISD, a variety of colleges and administrative units of Texas Tech, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, United Way of Lubbock, Covenant Health System, South Plains Food Bank, United Supermarkets, and the Betenbough Charitable Foundation. The City of Lubbock, South Plains P-20 Council and Generation Texas are also partners in the project.
The Lubbock Independent School District and Texas Tech have combined with many community partners to receive a $24.5 million dollar Promise Neighborhoods Grant.  This town will receive the grant over the next five years to help with different education projects in the Lubbock area.  Keep reading to learn more about the grant and find out more information at Texas Tech.

DIY Art Pieces

Did you ever want to have art pieces hanging around your house?  Now you can do it for a low price.  Check out this easy step by step tutorial about how to make art pieces out of posters.  Please see apartment therapy with any questions you might have.

This tutorial is inexpensive, easy, and best of all: low-risk. I was in need of some art for our bathroom, and it needed to be rather large and until I can afford what I've really got my heart set on — rather cheap.

I decided to take a poster that I liked (picked up at a craft store for around $10) and skip the large expensive frame. Instead, I made it look like a wrapped canvas, using a cheap old thrift store canvas I had lying around. Warning: this project is not for the perfectionist! If you're looking for large-scale art on a budget, and can accept some minor flaws, this is the project for you! I completed this project in less than 20 minutes.

What You Need

• poster
• canvas just a bit smaller than the poster
• adhesive such as mod podge
• brush
• staple gun or stapler

Instructions

1. Lay out your poster.



2. Place canvas on top to be sure you have enough room to fold the edges around.



3. Spread out your adhesive.





4. Starting at the bottom or top, carefully press your poster onto the gluey canvas, taking care to smooth out air bubbles. Note: I didn't photograph this step because I needed both hands — and you will too!

5. Flip the whole thing over and smooth it out.



6. Flip back over and use your fingers, a dry towel, or a brayer to smooth out any extra wrinkles.



7. Flip back over, and carefully wrap the edges around to the back of the canvas. Secure in place with staples.



8. Fold corners neatly like wrapping a present and secure with staples.





10. Hang, and enjoy!