VISTAS MAGAZINE
Summer 2002
The staff of VISTAS: Texas Tech Research, has been awarded a Silver Medal from the Society of Publication Designers for design in the Winter 2001 issue. VISTAS was judges among major national magazines including Esquire, GQ, and Vanity Fair. CASE is the professional organization for advancement of professionals at all levels that work in alumni relations, communications and development. In awarding the Grand Gold Award to VISTAS for their Winter 2001 issue, the judges for CASE summarized that "VISTAS pushes the sensibility of the reader." This is a magazine you can't throw away.
- VISTAS Editor
SUMMER 2002 :: Volume 10 :: Number 2
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PORK PREDICAMENT Farmers in Europe may want to keep their pork production methods in tact, believes a Texas Tech University scientist. |
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THE ZINC LINK Study suggests possible link between metal-based contamination in the environment and multiple sclerosis. |
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THE MEDICAL MIRACLE OF TELEMEDICINE With a little high-tech wizardry, television turns into telemedicine and can become something of a medical miracle. |
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CAR WARS As the best option to fossil fuels, two Texas Tech engineering scientists put more than 50 years of experience in the debate over alternative energy. |
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NINE LIVES |
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IT'S GOOD TO BE KING
Voters in Texas and across the country are finding little purpose in casting ballots in U.S. House races. The reason, no challengers want to take on the incumbents.
HOPE FOR LUPUS
A new treatment for the devastating disease of lupus may be LJP 394, a drug currently being tested at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center to help those whose bodies are attacking them.
OPERATION
Doctors from throughout the country are taking part in a newly formed endovascular surgery fellowship at Texas Tech, being trained in a treatment that gives patients a shorter recovery time following surgery.
THE LAST ROUNDUP
Texas and leather processing should fit like a well-worn saddle. The time is right and Texas is the place. Texas needs tanneries.
PIECES
Artist Ken Dixon is enthralled by the extravaganza of life. In his work, he searches for meaning out of order and disorder and shows the viewer what he discovers in layers of life and pieces of meaning.
BEYOND THE BABY BLUES
A proposed program could give researchers a chance to provide more comprehensive care to new mothers and perhaps answer the question still lingering about postpartum depression.
REVOLUTION IN EVOLUTION
The teaching of evolution in biology textbooks has reflected society's views since the early 1900s. Will science stand on its own or continue to follow the windy road of ever-changing societal morays?
FILLING IN THE BLANKS
The forensic experts of the Texas Tech Southwest Institute of Forensic Sciences are the last advocates for the dead.
