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Giving Them Shelter

Sep 27, 2011

Concrete Producer -Thanks to the awful 2011 season, the public is getting serious about tornadoes and how to survive them. “Everyone is experiencing quite a surge right now,” says Ernst Kiesling, executive director of the National Storm Shelter Association (NSSA), based at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, where Kiesling also is a professor of civil engineering. He believes most precast producers have experienced increases similar to Barger's.

tags : Texas Tech in the News

Epic scorching drought testing Texas' ways

Sep 27, 2011

MinnPost -'Texans, if you look back through history, have always been able to deal with calamity, and that's still true,' says Richard Verrone, a historian at Texas Tech in Lubbock. 'But unless you see it firsthand, it's hard to imagine the complete losses that are taking away livelihoods and hurting families not just now, but potentially for a couple of generations.'

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Red Raider Writes Book to Honor Vietnam Veteran

Sep 26, 2011

Co-author David Nelson recounts the life of fallen Vietnam veteran and close friend, Lee Roy Herron.

tags : Stories, Texas Tech Press, Vietnam

Red Raiders Publish Book to Honor Fallen Vietnam Veteran

Sep 26, 2011

Following an investigation into the heroic wartime death of his close friend, a former Red Raider took his memories to the page in a book recently published by the Texas Tech University Press, “David and Lee Roy: A Vietnam Story.”

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