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Texas Tech Rodeo Team Members Headed to Nationals

Jun 5, 2013

Women will defend their 2012 national title.

Nidal Hasan can represent himself at trial, raising specter of jihadist rants (+video)

Jun 4, 2013

Christian Science Monitor - One reason for that decision is to minimize the chance that there will be an error and a justification that could allow a conviction to be overturned on appeal, if it appears the judge didn't do enough to protect Hasan, says Richard Rosen, a professor at Texas Tech University School of Law in Lubbock and a retired colonel.

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Solar System's Long-Term Future Could Lie Outside Milky Way

Jun 4, 2013

Forbes - Astronomer David Sand, at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and colleague Melissa Graham, an astronomer at Las Cumbres Observatory Global Network in California, were co-authors on a recent paper detailing their work on the MENeaCS (Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey, using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) of 58 [nearby] galaxy clusters to look for intracluster supernovae. Out of 23 supernovae found, four are thought to be totally unbound to any galaxy.

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Improved severe weather monitoring

Jun 4, 2013

NewsChannel10.com - Amarillo - Operations Manager of West Texas Mesonet with Texas Tech University Wesley Burgett says, 'We've had one tornado hit up here in McClain in 2007. It went right over the station. Produced 128 miles an hour wind. And that data was relayed directly to the weather service office. Most of our wind data is based on severe storms that are coming in like high winds with blowing dirt that they can use to predict what it's going to be like in the city of Amarillo.'

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