It's summer, and it's grilling season. Get ready to set up your cooker and showcase your best barbecue against some of the most talented cooks in the Lone Star State. The third annual Raider Red Meats Barbecue Cook-off will take place Aug. 23-24 on the Texas Tech campus.
Texas Tech is once again offering a non-traditional classroom experience for cotton industry professionals from across the globe, known as the Texas International Cotton School. Running from Aug. 5-16, the High Plains program is two weeks of classes, lectures, tours and hands-on interaction in all phases of cotton production, harvesting, ginning, classing, testing, preparation and processing.
The Texas Alliance for Water Conservation, a research project made up of producers, industries, universities, and government agencies, has received the American Water Resources Association's 'Integrated Water Resources Management Award.' The award will be presented at the group's annual conference in November in Portland.