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Texas Tech Hygiene Technology to Clean Up at National Convention

Mar 15, 2011

Emerging technology forum offers matchmaking prospects for new technologies.

A look at Japan's Damaged Nuclear Plants

Mar 14, 2011

Chicago Tribune- Officials ordered the evacuation to protect civilians in the event that radiation leaked from the plants. 'You want to err on the side of being cautious,' said (Ron) Chesser, director for the Center of Environmental Radiation Studies at Texas Tech University.

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Keeping Tabs on the Infrastructure, Wirelessly

Mar 14, 2011

New York Times - Jennifer Rice, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Texas Tech in Lubbock, worked on the Jindo project when she was a doctoral student under Spencer. She and her group devised much of the software that conserves power on the network. Instead of having the radios constantly beaming information and using power, the software wakes up sensors for a few minutes so they can collect and analyze data, then switches on the radio to transmit it.

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Nuclear Reactors 'Must Be Cooled'

Mar 14, 2011

Bangkok Post - Ron Chesser, director for the Center of Environmental Radiation Studies at Texas Tech University, was the first American scientist allowed inside the exclusion zone in 1992 in Ukraine following the Chernobyl disaster.

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