Archive for the ‘Texas Tech in the News’ Category
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Crime Prof Blog – Professor Metze takes a critical look at the historical and contemporary law on the right to counsel and the evolution of what measure the courts must use to review trial counsel’s performance. By the use of the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the courts have settled on the proper measure of counsel’s representation. Struggling with the new rights extended to former servants and slaves, the courts following the Civil War fought a slow but steady battle to implement the constitutional guarantees of the Bill of Rights to all citizens.
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Property Casualty 360 – Aside from the issue of homes without shelters, a Reuters story addresses the fact that schools leveled by the Moore tornado did not have areas of refuge for those within. Reuters quotes Larry Tanner, research associate for the National Wind Institute at Texas Tech University who studies how shelters behave in fierce storms, as saying that public buildings should have shelters or safe rooms in areas prone to large storms. “Schools should all be built with shelters,” Tanner says, adding, “I would prefer my taxpayer money being directed toward shelters rather than AstroTurf on ball fields.”
Friday, May 24th, 2013
en.Parset.com – If you do build a home storm shelter, its important to make sure the product has been tested and approved for use during tornadoes. Though FEMA issues guidelines for storm structures, the agency does not approve storm structures or the material used to construct them. Instead, most of the testing in the United States is conducted at the National Wind Institute at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Bloomberg -“They’re at such a high level, like a board of directors but without the powers of a board of directors,” said Camp, now a law professor at Texas Tech University. “They’re primarily a cheerleader for the service on budget issues.”
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Inside Higher Ed – What is clear is that Ph.D.s for artists are here for the long term. Besides the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts and Ohio University, Texas Tech University and the University of California at San Diego also offer these degree programs, and the United States is well behind the United Kingdom and Europe, where approximately 40 such programs have been in operation for years.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Chron.com – The two schools have collaborated in the past for projects not unlike this. Along with Texas Tech University, and the University of Houston, they are partners in the Texas Digital Library and preservation storage in the High Density Repository on the J.J. Pickle Campus in Austin at UT.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
PermianBasin360.com – Thousands of dollars were donated to the scholarship funds of Midland College, Odessa College, UTPB, and Texas Tech.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Beef Magazine – Zoetis Inc., formerly the animal health business unit of Pfizer, today announced a gift of $100,000 for Salmonella research to Texas Tech University, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Department of Animal and Food Sciences. The research gift will help provide resources to better understand and describe the ecology of Salmonella in cattle populations and to discover and evaluate tools that might ultimately result in a safer food supply.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
WBAL – FEMA said much of its information is based on research conducted by the Wind Engineering Research Center based at Texas Tech University.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
InterAkson – Shelters are “highly recommended” for storm-prone areas, according to Larry Tanner, research associate for the National Wind Institute at Texas Tech University who studies how shelters behave in fierce storms. He believes public buildings should have shelters or safe rooms in areas prone to large storms.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Bayou Buzz – The finals will feature 12 teams with seven riders each working their way through seven different heats. Competing universities include Central Florida, University of Miami, Florida State University, Oklahoma State University, University of Louisiana at Monroe, University of Wisconsin, Louisiana Tech University, Texas Tech University, San Diego State, and Arizona State. Several riders from other universities will compete for individual honors.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
news.gnom.es “There are above-ground and below -round storm shelters that offer near absolute occupant protection from the worst-case tornado,” said Ernst Kiesling, professor of civil engineering at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Delaware Online – Storm shelters certified by the National Storm Shelter Association are tested against 250-mph winds and debris traveling at that speed, says Ernst Kiesling, head of the NSSA and a research professor at Texas Tech University’s National Wind Institute in Lubbock. “They would have easily survived the 200-mph winds reported from Oklahoma,” Kiesling says. “We’re greatly chagrined that the message has been sent that the only safe place is underground. That’s simply not accurate. People can feel very safe in a modern storm shelter.”
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Builder Magazine.com – The Texas Tech University Debris Impact Testing Lab certifies above-ground shelters as capable of withstanding EF5 storms. “If the shelter has been tested as an F5, it’s good for a 250 mile per hour tornado,” says Larry Tanner, a research associate at the National Wind Institute and Debris Impact Testing Lab.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
AgriMarketing.com – Zoetis Inc., formerly the animal health business unit of Pfizer, today announced a gift of $100,000 for Salmonella research to Texas Tech University, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Department of Animal and Food Sciences. The research gift will help provide resources to better understand and describe the ecology of Salmonella in cattle populations and to discover and evaluate tools that might ultimately result in a safer food supply.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Tulsa World – The National Wind Institute at Texas Tech University, which leads the nation in wind research, is sending multiple teams to survey the damage from the EF5 tornado that killed 24 people in Moore.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
Textile World – Researchers at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, have found that unprocessed low-micronaire cotton surpasses other, higher grades of cotton in its ability to absorb oil, making it the most effective cotton-based solution for cleaning up crude oil spills.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
The Rachel Maddow Show
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
Slate.com – While there are several recorded instances of powerful storms ripping open the doors to storm cellars and other shelters, no such instance has been documented with a shelter tested and approved by the National Wind Institute (NWI) at Texas Tech University. While other storm shelters may be old or poorly designed in the first place, the shelters approved by the NWI are designed to withstand winds up to 250 mph, which includes nearly all recorded tornadoes (including Monday’s) and most tornadoes rated as EF5s on the Enhanced Fujita scale.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
USA Today – Storm shelters certified by the National Storm Shelter Association are tested against 250-mph winds and debris traveling at that speed, says Ernst Kiesling, head of the NSSA and a research professor at Texas Tech University’s National Wind Institute in Lubbock. “They would have easily survived the 200-mph winds reported from Oklahoma,” Kiesling says. “We’re greatly chagrined that the message has been sent that the only safe place is underground. That’s simply not accurate. People can feel very safe in a modern storm shelter.”
