Bee Allergy-Free (and Pesticide-Wary)

Brooke Carson was once so sick with recurring infections that she had to take time off of school. Now a graduate student studying media and communication at Texas Tech, she attributes her illness to extreme allergies and her recovery to increased consumption of local honey. “My system just, like, crashed because of allergies, and I developed asthma,” the […]

Tech Professors Talk Monarch Butterfly Conservation

Since August 2014, a petition has been circulating to include monarch butterflies on the endangered species list. Scott Starr, a graduate student in biology, said one of the conservation concerns with monarch butterflies is the wintering grounds in the mountains of Mexico. Monarchs migrate across the United States to Mexico and southern California each year. “Unfortunately […]