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TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2014 VOLUME 88 ■ ISSUE 153
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Tech receives designation Texas Tech was recognized with the Innovation and Economic Prosperity Designation Thursday for its involvement in economic development efforts. NELLIS The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities awarded the designation, according to a Tech news release. Duane Nellis, Tech president, said in the release, this designation is an indication of Tech faculty, staff and students’ work toward Tier One status. “The IEP application process is an extensive self study that helped us determine not only our strengths in connecting with our community,” he said, “but also the areas in which we need to focus more attention.” The designation, according to the release, is awarded to universities that work with public and private sector partners to support economic development in ways such as entrepreneurship, technology transfer, talent and workforce development, and community engagement. Tech’s self study was conducted through surveys of those involved both internally and externally with the university, according to the release, as well as surveying alumni and students and gathering information at town hall meetings about current and planned innovation efforts on campus. “Through the IEP process, we learned that our faculty and students are strongly interested in economic engagement and entrepreneurship,” Nellis said, according to the release. “We will use this process as a foundation to continue in these areas.” Just one other Texas university, University of Houston, was included in the 13 public institutions recognized by this designation this year, according to the release. ➤➤kbain@dailytoreador.com
2 dead in West Texas wrong-way wreck LUBBOCK (AP) — Two people have been killed and another critically injured in a head-on collision after one vehicle was going the wrong way on a West Texas highway. Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Bryan Witt says a mother and daughter were dead at the scene Monday along U.S. 84 about 25 miles northeast of Lubbock.
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Lubbock community hosts weekly farmers market
KELLY SMITH, A Post native, sells jewelry her husband makes at the Farmers Market on Buddy Holly Avenue on Saturday.
By KAITLIN BAIN Staff Writer
Every Saturday from June to October, Lubbock hosts the Lubbock Downtown Farmers Market at the intersection of 19th Street and Buddy Holly Avenue for farmers and merchants to sell their goods to Lubbock natives and visitors alike. Kammy and Chelsea Philbrick, two Lubbock natives, said they have been attending the market since it started. “Larry, the guy who started this, is an old friend of ours,” Kammy Philbrick said, “so we’ve been coming for forever.” The market, according to the Lubbock Downtown Farmers Market website, grew out of the Lubbock Downtown Art Market, and
this year is the first the market is recognized as a Texas nonprofit corporation. The biggest focus for the market, according to the website, is supporting the local economy by buying from local producers, instead of buying supermarket items that do not always come from the Lubbock area. Adam Johnson, a Lubbock resident, said it is important to him and his family to buy locally-grown produce and items made in the Lubbock area. “I came to Tech for school after my dad lost his farm,” he said. “It’s so important for me, and now my family, to come to the farmers market and buy from here because we don’t want to see that happen to anyone else.” MARKET continued on Page 2 ➤➤
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THE FARMERS MARKET ON Buddy Holly Avenue had multiple vendors selling hundreds of different food items.
Therapeutic riding helps physically and socially By KYMBRE KUPATT Staff Writer
The Texas Tech Therapeutic Riding Center offers a unique experience through its therapy program for both the children participating and the volunteers involved. Tamara Chitwood, office manager for the therapeutic riding center, said children participating receive both physical and social therapy while riding gentle horses and getting social interaction from the volunteers. Volunteers are required to attend an orientation to learn how to properly handle the horses and the best way to benefit the children during their 30 min therapy session according to the Texas Tech website. RIDING continued on Page 2 ➤➤
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ERNESTO LUNA PERFORMS arm exercises during his riding therapy session Monday in the Texas Tech Equestrian Center.
Lubbock Lake Landmark hosts Archeology in Action By KAITLIN BAIN Staff Writer
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Lubbock Lake Landmark hosted Archeology in Action on Saturday to introduce visitors to the history being unearthed daily at the landmark. The landmark, according to it’s website, is a 335-acre natural history preserve and a world-known archeological site. Eileen Johnson, executive director of the Museum of Texas Tech and the director of the Lubbock Lake Landmark, said the dig is unique because it is the only site with a complete history of human occupation. “We have occupations dating from Clovis times, throughout every major cultural time period up through historic times,” Katherine Bell Ehlers, site six’s crew chief, said. “So, as long as people have been in America, they’ve been in Lubbock, which is kind of cool to think about.”
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LUBBOCK RESIDENTS LISTEN to a lecture by members of Archeology in Action, at Lubbock Landmark Lake on Saturday.
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Professor awarded Climate Communication Prize Katharine Hayhoe, direct o r o f Te c h ’s climate science center and climate scientist, was awarded the 2014 Climate Communication Prize HAYHOE from the American Geophysical Union. This award, according to the American Geophysical Union’s website, was established in 2011 and is funded by Nature’s Own. The prize is awarded to those who promote scientific literacy, clarity of message and put in effort to foster respect and understanding of science-based values in relations to climate change, according to the website. The winner, according to the website, receives a monetary prize, an engraved award, recognition at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting during the award presentation year and two tickets to the Honors Banquet at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting, according to the website. Hayhoe said, according to a Tech news release, she is honored that she has been named for this award. “It means a great deal to me to have my fellow scientists, as represented by the AGU, recognize and respect my commitment to communicating the realities of climate change to people who will be affected by it,” she said in the release. Hayhoe was also named to the 2014 TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world, according to a past article from The Daily Toreador. ➤➤kbain@dailytoreador.com
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