Former President George W. Bush gets ready to address the press after the 100K race.
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Former President George W. Bush cycled through Palo Duro Canyon for the Warrior 100K race for wounded veterans. During the event, he gave a brief press conference and was interviewed by The Prairie. Watch the report here.
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April 27 marked the second day of the Warrior 100K mountain bike ride dedicated to the U.S. service men and women wounded during combat.
“There are 19 of us here and it is just a testament to all of us who have overcome these traumatic instances, overcome these obstacles, these barriers to get here,” Melissa Stockwell, a First Lieutenant of the U.S. Army and member of the Board of Directors for the Wounded Warrior Project, said. “Having President Bush here as our leader and just support riding with us and being there at the finish line is what America is all about, and I think we are all extremely proud Americans with our injuries and with what we have overcome.”
Stockwell said Palo Duro Canyon is a beautiful place with well-maintained routes, an opinion shared by many of the participants at the bike ride.
“This is absolutely beautiful,” said John P. Szczepanowski, Gunnery Sergeant with the U.S. Marine Corps and a wounded warrior program coordinator. “Mathew [one of his colleges] and I are both from San Diego so we came out here and witnessed some of these Texan’s hospitality. It is just something I will never forget.” Continue reading
Former President George W. Bush will host the second annual Warrior 100K at Palo Duro Canyon State Park on April 26-28. The 100-kilometer mountain bike ride is dedicated to U.S. servicemen and women wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan.
“I look forward to spending time with these wounded warriors in a beautiful part of Texas,” Bush said in The Bush Center web site. “The W100 is a great way to remind all our fellow citizens of the unbelievable courage, skill, and sacrifice of those who wear the uniform of the United States.”
Twenty veterans will participate in this ride which, according to The Bush Center web site, “highlights the courage and sacrifice of U.S. military personnel who served their country honorably and were significantly injured during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.”
According to a representative from The Bush Center, the event is not opened to the public and it is dedicated to the 20 warriors and their families. Continue reading
The Music Therapy Club will be hosting its first Music Therapy Awareness Week starting April 9 and will be concluding April 11.
“The awareness week is a week of activities that will help get the word out to other people about music therapy,” Music Therapy major Erin Feuerstein said.
Feuerstein said that the main goal is to get the word out to the students on what music therapy is and how it can help people.
“This is our first year so we’re starting kind of small to see how the week goes,” she said. “And to see how we can grow in the future.” Continue reading
The WTAMU Engineering and Computer Science department opened registration for its high school summer camp, “Designing Tomorrow, Today,” for area high school students.
The camp will run from June 10-15 on the WT campus and is open for any high school student ages 14 and up.
“The camp gives student an idea of what they’ll actually be doing as engineers and gives them an idea of how the campus here works,” Rhonda Dittfurth, outreach coordinator for the Engineering and Computer Science department, said. Continue reading
Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to speak April 24 at 8:00 p.m. at WTAMU as part the Distinguished Lecture Series. The event will take place at the First United Bank Center and it is free and opened to the public. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m.
Oceanographer Robert Ballard, who discovered the Titanic in 1985, will also speak as part of the Lecture Series on April 23.
Check out these pics of the Nance Ranch! To read more about the research being done at the ranch, click here.
Steers line up to be fed the liquid feed. Photo by Ryan Schapp.
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The Nance Ranch Feedlot Research unit in the Department of Agriculture and Natural Science gives students and professors the ability to research the cattle feeding industry in ruminant nutrition, management and animal health.
Dr. Michael Brown, professor of Ruminant Nutrition and Management, said they have a well-equipped research team.
“We have about six to eight people working in the research program at the WTAMU feedlot that consists of undergraduates, graduate students and full-time employees,” Dr. Brown said.
The current study involves liquid feed containing many levels of corn-condensed distillers from an ethanol industry. The goal is to assess the nutritional value of condensed soluble. Researchers are observing protein and energy value contained in the feed. Continue reading
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