College Events

September 10-12: The Department of Mathematics and Statistics will host a memorial workshop in honor of Christopher I. Byrnes. For more details contact David Gilliam at david.gilliam@ttu.edu.

September 10-11:  The Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures will host a conference on Convivencia: Christians, Jews, and Muslims living together in Medieval Spain. Dr. Samuel Armistead, Distinguished Research Professor from UC Davis, will be the plenary speaker with 25 other panelists from a variety of disciplines.  For details, contact Dr. Connie Scarborough at connie.scarborough@ttu.edu.

September 10: The Department of English and the Creative Writing Program will host a reception at 6pm at the Ranching Heritage Center, featuring a few of our faculty and students who will give brief readings from their work.  The goal of the event is to raise awareness about the Creative Writing Program, its past, present, and future.  We intend to attract friends and donors to this reception who can partner with us to build endowments for scholarships and other aspects of our writing program.  The Dean of Arts and Sciences and the Chair of the Department of English will briefly discuss the success and vitality of Texas Tech University's Creative Writing Program. 

September 14-16: The Department of Political Science will host a conference entitled, “A Colloquium on United States National Security Policy, Military Strategy, and Contemporary Warfare.” This conference is jointly sponsored by the Department of Political Science and Strategic Studies Institute of the Army War College which made this gathering possible with an academic outreach grant. For more information, contact Dr. Dennis Patterson at dennis.patterson@ttu.edu (806/742-3121) or Dr. Steve Maxner at steve.maxner@ttu.edu (806/742-3742).

September 27, 2010 to October 6, 2010.  The Department of Health, Exercise, and Sport Sciences will host Beatrice Byaruhanga and her husband George. She will be making a public presentation on September 29, 2010 at 5:30 at the International Cultural Center.  The topic will be "From Cassava to Classrooms: The Story of Ayuru Beatrice Byaruhanga and the Lira Integrated.” For details contact Dr. Melanie Hart at melanie.hart@ttu.edu.

October 28-30: The Department of Mathematics and Statistics will host the 10th Red Raider Mini-Symposium "Mathematical Modeling in Population Biology and Epidemiology." For details please contact Dr. Lih-Ing Wu Roeger at lih-ing.roeger@ttu.edu or Dr. Sophia Jang at sophia.jang@ttu.edu.

DATES PENDING: The Creative Writing Program of the Department of English and Iron Horse Literary Review will be hosting a series of readings this fall by some of today's best writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.   These readings are free and open to all.  Please see www.english.ttu.edu for announcements, or contact William Wenthe at wiliam.wenthe@ttu.edu.