November 6, 2009
Fort Hood Slayings hit Close to Home for UTPB Volleyball Player
Jamie Rodell had no idea what to think.
All she had was a text from her little brother, a student at Killeen High, and another text from her best friend telling Rodell to call her mom, her dad, her boyfriend, anybody from back home.
Fort Hood had been locked down.
November 5, 2009
LULAC and UTPB have invited high school students from across Texas to attend a free Hispanic Youth Summit Nov. 13 and Nov. 14.
Whether we agree with his ideas or not, it is unquestionable that Charles Darwin was one of the most influential people who lived. This young Englishman of little apparent talent would gather evidence on a five-year voyage around the world for a theory that would revolutionize human thinking and then spend 20 years agonizing before he published his findings.
In his remarkable 75-minute, one-man show “Darwin Remembers,” retired professor Floyd Sandford took a UTPB audience on a journey of discovery through the reminiscences of a frail but still vital Darwin as he considers his life and work.
November 1, 2009
UT Austin psychologist Sam Gosling will visit UTPB and talk about his book "Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You!" at UTPB.
UTPB’s work in developing the Advancement Via Individual Determination program for freshmen students grabbed the attention of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the board gave the university a special “Recognition of Excellence” award at its meeting Thursday.
Roland and Lorraine Spickerman have a piece of the rock -- so to speak. It's a jagged fist-sized chunk of graffiti-covered concrete from the Berlin Wall, which came down 20 years ago on Nov. 9, 1989.
October 30, 2009
University of Texas of the Permian Basin: Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery: EXHIBIT: Craft Out of Bounds: Artwork that explores multi-media while remaining firmly grounded in one of the traditional craft media: clay, glass, metals, wood, and fiber, through Nov. 30.
October 29, 2009
UTPB’s work in developing the Advancement Via Individual Determination program for freshmen students has grabbed the attention of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
The board will give the university a special “Recognition of Excellence” award at its meeting scheduled Thursday.
October 27, 2009
UTPB Joining the Fight Against Breast Cancer
UTPB is joining the fight against breast cancer. A support group is forming at the school for people who have been affected by the disease. Students, staff, and community members are invited to join. The group will meet on a regular basis so people battling breast cancer know they are not alone. The first meeting will be on Saturday at 3:00p.m. in the UTPB Counseling Center.
October 23, 2009
Got a job? Good, now how do you keep it? Janene Binnion of First National Bank of Midland will speak at UTPB about the importance of the first 90-days on a job.
October 22, 2009
It's Not Your Momma's Art Show
A new exhibit is scheduled to open Friday at UTPB’s Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery titled “Craft out of Bounds.” Artists for the show are from Texas, Kentucky, South Carolina and California.
October 20, 2009
UTPB Associate Professor of Art Chris Stanley is running the annual Empty Bowls fundraiser. The hundreds of ceramic bowls on display will actually be available for purchase and all proceeds will benefit the West Texas Food Bank. The food bank serves the entire Permian Basin as well as Alpine and El Paso.
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the Pulitzer Prize-winning icons of investigative reporting, spent some time Thursday evening at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin bringing some of their thoughts and experiences to hundreds of people in attendance.
October 15, 2009
Texas Night Out
The city and five neighborhood watch groups were celebrating Texas Night Out, a week after UTPB and most of Texas threw their block parties on the official Oct. 6 date. Children and neighbors at Teakwood Drive on Odessa’s east side shared grilled hot dogs and hamburgers, threw around a dozen beach balls and played basketball as firefighters came along to say hello.
October 13, 2009
Keeping bellies full is as easy as filling your own. The West Texas Food Bank is raising funds with its annual Empty Bowls event. The fundraiser is scheduled for 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at St. John's Episcopal Church, 401 N. West County Road. For a $10 donation participants will receive soup and break plus a handmade ceramic bowl.
China's History
Soldiers, thousands of them, goose-stepped in perfect unison through Beijing’s Tiananmen Square recently, flanked by a sea of red flags amid thousands of military and civilian onlookers.
From sunup to sunrise, the celebrations, parades and fireworks commenced throughout China’s capital city under the watchful eyes of a massive portrait of the party’s deceased but still revered hero, Mao Zedong.
Pink Out
At 7 pm, Oct. 20 at the UTPB vs Angelo State Volleyball match we are having a pink out for breast cancer awareness as part of the Dig Pink program and “Side Out” https://www.side-out.org/. Athletics and Student Life are working very hard to make sure every person who walks into the gym gets a pink shirt and, in addition, we will be asking for cash donations. If you come, please wear pink. If this is a cause your feel strongly about please make a donation.
October 12, 2009
Speaker Offers Jones Students Inspiration
After hearing Jonathan Brown speak at Midland Independent School District's convocation in August, Jones Elementary Principal Angie Henry knew she had to bring him to her school. For Friday's assembly honoring 210 fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders, she fulfilled that wish.
October 7, 2009
UTPB hosted a block party Tuesday evening for Texas Night Out, held the first Tuesday of October for locals to hang out with the police. UTPB Police Chief Tom Hain said National Night Out is held in August but the UTPB campus—with most of Texas—held it Tuesday, when the students would be around taking fall classes.
October 4, 2009
UT Chancellor Brings a Message
The man whose name rests atop the organizational chart of the vast University of Texas System came to the Permian Basin last Tuesday with a ground-level message — the importance of higher education.
People considering a career in accounting need to mark down Oct. 8 on their calendars.
Woodward, Bernstein to Visit UTPB
The two reporters who broke the story on the Watergate break-in that eventually led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation will be the guest speakers at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin’s gymnasium later this month, according to UTPB spokeswoman Iris Foster.
October 2, 2009
Museum Finds Possible Solution
There’s considerable light at the end of the tunnel for the troubled Presidential Museum. Plus, it’s comforting to think that logic won out over emotional issues — and that the collection can remain intact and available for public viewing.
October 1, 2009
UTPB Correct to Address its 'Remedial' issue
The numbers coming out of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin this past week were somewhat startling, but we were glad that the school is attacking the problem head on.
The Yearbook: Fading From the College Campus Scene; It Will Be Missed
In cursive lettering in fountain-pen blue ink, words of tender affection are stylistically feminine in the 70-year-old college yearbook.
September 30, 2009
UT Official Visits Basin
He's got some unique boots adorned with little human-organ-shaped ornaments -- they were a gift from a former Texas governor.
September 28, 2009
Every resident of Odessa should be embarrassed and ashamed that we stood by and allowed the Presidential Museum to close.
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