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Texas Tech Ranked Among Best Online Graduate Programs

Jan 9, 2014

U.S. News & World Report survey lists Engineering and Education.

tags: Academics, College of Education, College of Engineering, ELearning, Feature Stories, Provost

Researchers Awarded $640,000 from National Science Foundation

Jan 8, 2014

The grant will allow faculty members from College of Engineering to study biofuel recovery.

tags: Academics, College of Engineering, Provost, Research, Stories, Vice President for Research

Low-grade Cotton Proves Effective at Absorbing Oil Spills

Jan 8, 2014

Farms.com-Dr. Seshadri Ramkumar, lead author of the study and manager of the Nonwovens and Advanced Materials Laboratory at Texas Tech's Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH), said he and his colleagues found that low-micronaire cotton – one of the lowest-quality types of cotton – is highly effective at picking up oil.

tags: Texas Tech in the News

`Duck Dynasty´: Will `I Stand With Phil´ petition work?

Jan 8, 2014

Yahoo! Finance-“You’ve got an America polarized on issues of sexual orientation, race, gender, all of which is tied into civil rights, and there are radicals on both sides of that fence,” says Rob Weiner, a pop culture expert at Texas Tech University. “But as in life, a reasonable path is the way to go, and there are consequences to what you say, whether it’s ‘Duck Dynasty’ or ‘American Idol.’ ”

tags: Texas Tech in the News