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Past News for 2011 and earlier

  • 2011-11-18 Lubbock's Sharp Academy students visit WiSE research facilities
  • 2011-10-20 WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #61
  • 2011-10-04 WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #60
  • 2011-09-10 TTU WiSE Partnership with Alstom and DOE on Industry Week website
  • 2011-09-10 TTU WiSE Partnership with Alstom and DOE on Fox TV Lubbock website
  • 2011-09-10 TTU WiSE Partnership with Alstom and DOE on North American WindPower website
  • 2011-09-10 TTU WiSE Partnership with Alstom and DOE on Alstom website
  • 2011-09-10TTU WiSE Partnership with Alstom and DOE on Power Engineering magazine website
  • 2011-09-22 TTU WiSE Partnership with Alstom and DOE on Smart Planet blog
  • 2011-09-10 WiSE Wednesday Seminar schedule announced
  • 2011-09-01 WiSE Founder Leaves for NSF
  • 2011-08-29 Castillo Named Chair in Wind Energy
  • 2011-08-29 WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #59
  • 2011-08-20 London (UK) documentary TV crew visit WiSE research facilities
  • 2011-08-19 WiSE welcomes everyone with Fall BBQ
  • 2011-08-12 WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #58
  • 2011-08-06 WiSE Ph.D Student Chris Pattison graduates from program
  • 2011-08-04 WiSE Ph.D Student Pat Skinner awarded Kishor and Mary Ann Mehta Scholarship
  • 2011-07-29 WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #57
  • 2011-07-15 Advanced Wind Energy Test Facility Makes a Move
  • 2011-07-15 WiSE faculty and Ph.D. student have article accepted for publication in Monthly Weather Review
  • 2011-06-30 WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #56
  • 2011-06-23 Students from Regional 4-H group attend WiSE Facilities Tour
  • 2011-06-16 WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #55
  • 2011-06-14 Students from the City of Irving attend WiSE Facilities Tour
  • 2011-06-09 WiSE Co-hosts Run on the Wind summer camp for students
  • 2011-06-03 WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #54
  • 2011-05-26 WiSE storm shelter expert interviewed in the Christian Science Monitor newspaper
  • 2011-05-26 WiSE storm shelter expert featured on Yahoo News Feed. (Link expired.)
  • 2011-05-25 WiSE storm shelter expert interviewed by the New York Times
  • 2011-05-23 WiSE storm shelter expert featured on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer (national)
  • 2011-05-20WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #53
  • 2011-05-19 WiSE storm shelter expert interviewed by the New York Times
  • 2011-05-14 WiSE/ATMO Ph.D. student Brian Hirth graduates from program
  • 2011-04-20 WiSE storm shelter expert interviewed by the national newspaper USA Today
  • 2011-04-22 WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #51
  • 2011-04-20 Storm shelter experts interviewed for Tennessee newspaper. (Link expired.)
  • 2011-04-12 TWEI Hosts Sustainable Energy Class for Osher Lifelong Learners
  • 2011-03-25 WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #49
  • 2011-03-10 WiSE Spring 2011 official newsletter
  • 2011-03-22 Registration open for Run on the Wind summer residential camp for students entering grades 7-11
  • 2011-03-21 Texas Tech Today features VORTEX2 project with researchers from both TTU's WiSE and ATMO
  • 2011-03-10 WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #48
  • 2011-03-02 Former Senior NOAA Economist Visits TTU WiSE McDonald-Mehta Lecture Series
  • 2011-02-28 WiSE PhD applicants visit TTU Lubbock campus
  • 2011-02-26 State Farm Donates Generous Check to WiSE Research Center
  • 2011-02-24 West Texas Mesonet continues to grow to Station #61
  • 2011-02-24 WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #47
  • 2011-02-16 KXAS-TV (Dallas) visits WiSE research facilities
  • 2011-02-15 Leadership Lubbock group visits WiSE research facilities
  • 2011-02-02 Dr. Gregory Kopp from the University of Western Ontario visits as part of the McDonald-Mehta Lecture Series
  • 2011-01-14 WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #44
  • 2011-01-12 WUAV-TV visits WiSE research facilities at Reese Technology Center
  • 2010-12-03 WiSE Bi-weekly newsletter #42
  • 2010-11 THECB reports praise for WiSE PhD program
  • 2010-11-20 WiSE Fall 2010 official newsletter
  • 2010-11-19 WiSE Bi-Weekly newsletter issue #41
  • 2010-11-05 WiSE Bi-Weekly newsletter issue #40
  • 2010-11-03 FM Global visits WiSE research facilities
  • 2010-10-25 WeatherPredict Consulting visits WiSE research facilities
  • 2010-10-21 WiSE Bi-Weekly newsletter issue #39
  • 2010-10-16 Congressman John Carter visits WiSE research facilities
  • 2010-10-01 WiSE Bi-Weekly newsletter issue #38
  • 2010-09-17 WiSE Bi-Weekly newsletter issue #37
  • 2010-09-15 TTU announces "Vision and Tradition", a video to introduce the campaign to help support TTU's bold vision for the future
  • 2010-09-14 Dr. Ernst Keisling is featured in Wall Street Journal article about safe rooms
  • 2010-08-20 WiSE's Debris Impact Lab is featured in "Awesome College Labs" in the magazine Popular Science . See page two of article
  • 2010-06-29 Dr. Daan Liang awarded NSF grant to study how communities recover from hurricanes
  • 2010-06 West Texas Mesonet continues to grow
  • Dr. John Schroeder was awarded funding from AWS Convergence Technology, Inc., for further development of the West Texas Mesonet Project.
  • 2010-05 WiSE Summer 2010 newsletter
  • 2010-05 New Director for WiSE: Dr. John Schroeder
  • Dr. Xinzhong Chen, Assistant Professor in CE, received three years of funding from the National Science Foundation for his study called called “Reliability-Based Predictions of Extreme and Fatigue Responses of Utility-scale Wind Turbines Through Advanced Modeling and Simulations" for a total of $259,870.
  • Dr. Daan Liang and Dr. Brian Nutter receive funding from the National Science Foundation for a study called “Hyperspectral Imagery: A New Frontier for Windstorm Damage Assessment: RET Supplement.”
  • Dr. John Schroeder received a matching grant award from Risk Management Solutions (RMS) for a one year project called “Improving Hurricane Wind Speed Estimates at Landfall.”
  • Dr. John Schroeder receives funding from Risk Management Solutions (RMS) for a one year project for his study of “Documentation of Hurricane Wind Fields” for a total of $15,000.
  • 2010-05 Dr. Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Dr. Stephen Bayne, Dr. Qing Hu, Dr. Jennifer Rice, and Dr. Doug A. Smith were awarded DOE funding for a two-year project called “Midsize Wind Turbine Designed and Manufactured in USA.”
  • 2010-05 Dr. John Schroeder and Dr. Brian Ancell were awarded a two-year grant from the DOE/AWS True Power for their project called “Enhancing Short-term Wind Energy forecasting for Improved Utility operations”
  • 2010-05 Gone with the Wind: Researchers Embark on VORTEX-2 Project
  • 2010-02 2010 Lubbock Severe Weather Conference Coverage here
  • 2010-02 "VORTEX2 - The hunt begins!" The Weather Channel takes a five week ride with scientists from around the world as they hit the roads in search of tornadoes all in the name of science. Watch our students in videos like these from The Weather Channel:

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