Sam Houston

BIOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES


 

 

 

 

 

 

For more on Sam Houston the Man see the Sam Houston Memorial Museum Web site, which includes a Chronology of the life of Sam Houston.

 

 


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SHSU 'In the News'

 

An Associated Press story in which Doug Kingman, assistant professor of agricultural mechanization, discussed the use of animal fat as a possible replacement for petroleum as a fuel source has appeared on CNNMoney, Yahoo! Finance Canada, CNBC, Capitol Press Agriculture Weekly, the Detriot News, the Boston Globe and a number of other media outlets.

 

Larry Hoover, criminal justice professor and Police Research Center director, discussed problems with releasing raw police incident reports and other crime statistics on the Internet in an article by the Dallas Morning News that was also picked up by TMCnews.

 

Research by Sibyl Bucheli, entomologist and visiting assistant professor of biology, and Joan Bytheway, assistant professor of ciminal justice, was recently featured in ScienceNews, the magazine of the Society For Science & The Public. In the interview, Buscheli discussed the use of a caterpillars of the casemaking clothes moth, Tinea pellionella, that can yield enough DNA to identify the deceased if one eats human hair from a corpse.

 

 

Today's Birthdays

 

Thursday, Dec. 4

John Haggard

Ronda Harris

Scott Kaukonen

Roy Morales

Sara Ptomey

Charles Rogers

Rita Watkins

 

Staff Council 'Spotlights'

 

Janis Bradford

Rafael Pulgar

Misty Cloud

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