VISTAS MAGAZINE
Summer 2001
VISTAS: Texas Tech Research continues to garner awards. The Society of Publication Designers Inc. in New York Deemed VISTAS, Spring 2000 issue, to be a Merit Winner from 7,831 submissions to SPD's 36th annual competition. Secondly, the same issue of VISTAS has been selected to appear in Print's Regional Design Annual 2001 among nearly 32,000 individual entries, representing the best design, illustration, and photography being produced throughout the United States.
Finally, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education on the national level has selected VISTAS to receive a Gold Medal in the Visual Design in Print category among 263 entries.
- VISTAS Editor
Summer 2001 :: Volume 9 :: Number 2
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BODY ART What was once considered a practice of bikers, sailors and rebellious teenagers has now entered into general society. |
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THE BONE EXAMINER Robert R. Paine, Ph.D., solves mysteries associated with forensic cases in a small, secluded room where remains of bone fragments lay scattered on wooden tables. |
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THE WALL STREET WOMEN Business management styles differ noticeably between genders, but Linda Krefing, Ph.D., believes that the mass media perpetuates equivocal images of women executives. |
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AMERICAN DEATH Timothy J. Floyd, J.D., who has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, examines the death penalty system in the U.S. and our ideal of "Equal Justice Under Law." |
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BORDERS OF HEALTH
The needs of elderly people living in rural areas will be easier to address thanks to the Texas Tech 5000 survey.
WIRED
Understanding gray matter has long been a gray area for researchers but now they are using new, high-tech brain-mapping equipment.
FIRST GENERATION
The Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Scholars Program provides first-generation college students the support to make their dreams come true.
FROM WASTELAND TO PROMISEDLAND
Researchers are turning the waste of cattle feedlots and power plant residue into a promise of economic development.
SPACE AGE TERRA FIRMA
A NASA astronaut and a colonias resident share a common need for two of the human body's necessities - fresh water and vegetables.
NURSING US INTO THE FUTURE
The nursing profession faces another shortage in the 21st century that promises to be more complex.
