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Jun 3, 2013
Criteria includes the depth of program and faculty, academic reputation, admission process and geographic location.
tags: Academics, College of Human Sciences, Provost, Stories
May 30, 2013
The Economist - OIL and water do not mix. Allegedly. But try telling that to the clean-up team after an accident at sea involving a tanker or an oil rig. Getting the oil out of the water is awkward, expensive and often involves chemical dispersants. A better approach would be to soak it up using an absorbant solid—in effect, wiping the sea clean with a rag. And that is what Seshadri Ramkumar and Vinitkumar Singh, of Texas Tech University, in Lubbock, hope to do, almost literally. Their plan is to absorb spilled oil with cotton.
tags: Texas Tech in the News
May 30, 2013
On Wall Street - To deal with information overload and process new information, people tend to create mental shortcuts, according to Deena Katz, associate professor in the Personal Financial Planning Division at Texas Tech University. When making decisions under uncertainty, these mental shortcuts, or heuristics, can sometimes take them down the wrong path.
tags: Texas Tech in the News
May 29, 2013
NOAA predicts very active season for Atlantic, below-normal in the Pacific.
tags: News Releases