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Jun 15, 2011
Physorg.com - (PhysOrg.com) -- By morphing and repositioning a small aircraft's vertical tail to resemble the cranial crest of a pterosaur, researchers have shown that the aircraft's turn radius can be reduced by 14%. The ability to make sharper turns is especially important for small aircraft that operate in urban environments and in the presence of obstacles.
tags: Texas Tech in the News
Jun 15, 2011
mrweb - In the US, Texas Tech University has received an anonymous $1.2m donation to enable it to establish a free market research institute.The gift will be used to launch the Institute for the Teaching and Study of Free Market Economics within Tech's economics department, and the university is currently looking to hire three new faculty members to staff the institute.
tags: Texas Tech in the News
Jun 15, 2011
Education Week - Next Generation Learning Challenges, an education technology grant competition funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, announced the 19 entrants who won grants through the project's second wave of funding—and first focused exclusively on K-12 causes—including several 'proof of concept' proposals.
tags: Texas Tech in the News
Jun 15, 2011
Go San Angelo - Kent R. Hance, chancellor of the Texas Tech University System, told the San Angelo Chamber of Commerce that Angelo State University and other members of the TTUS, will be 'running lean and mean' in the wake of state funding cuts to higher education.
tags: Texas Tech in the News