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Jan 18, 2017
Salon - Former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson downplayed global warming's dangers during a hearing into his nomination for secretary of state on Wednesday, refusing to rule out an American withdrawal from a climate treaty even as he acknowledged that "the risk of climate change does exist."
tags: Faculty, Texas Tech in the News
Jan 18, 2017
High Plains/Midwest Ag Journal - Mindy Brashears, a professor of food microbiology and food safety in the Texas Tech University Department of Animal and Food Sciences, has been named a fellow to the National Academy of Inventors.
tags: Faculty, Texas Tech in the News
Jan 18, 2017
WalletHub - Smoking can not only ruin your health, it can also burn a nasty hole through your wallet. Tobacco use accounts for nearly half a million deaths in the U.S. each year and is the leading cause of lung cancer, according to the American Lung Association. Even those around tobacco smokers aren't safe from its harmful effects. Since 1964, smoking-related illnesses have claimed 20 million lives in the U.S., 2.5 million of which belonged to nonsmokers who developed diseases merely from secondhand-smoke exposure.
tags: Faculty, Texas Tech in the News
Jan 12, 2017
The group has won the 2017 Bruno Rossi Prize and the 2016 Gruber Cosmology Prize for its detection of gravitational waves.
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