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Taking Cover: A Guide to Tornado Shelters

May 24, 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.

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IRS Safeguards Toothless in Tea Party Nonprofit Cases

May 24, 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.”

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For Artists, M.F.A. or Ph.D.?

May 24, 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.

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Texas Tech Business Student Inducted into Texas Business Hall of Fame

May 24, 2013

Lin Humphrey is a doctoral student focusing firm strategy on social media and mobile marketing.

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