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Apr 20, 2010
Statistically speaking, Alex Saez should be in jail. The 20-year-old Texas Tech student had all the odds stacked against him. His mother's schizophrenia spiraled out of control about 12 years ago. His father, a worker at a tire shop in the Austin area, couldn't care for Alex and his younger sister.
tags: Texas Tech in the News
Apr 20, 2010
Seven emerging research universities — UTSA, UT-Dallas, UT-Arlington, UT-El Paso, Texas Tech University, the University of Houston and the University of North Texas in Denton — are jockeying for Tier One research status, competing for money in a $500 million endowment approved by voters.
tags: Texas Tech in the News
Apr 20, 2010
Travel expenses for University of Texas at El Paso President Diana Natalicio more than doubled from fiscal year 2008 to FY 2009, from $20,656 to $42,124. During the same period, travel costs for El Paso Community College President Richard Rhodes went up a mere $726. And travel costs for Texas Tech Regional Dean Jose Manuel de la Rosa actually decreased.
tags: Texas Tech in the News
Apr 20, 2010
Texas' High Plains cotton, worth $2.1 billion a year, accounts for a third of U.S. production, according to estimates from Texas Tech's Cotton Economics Research Institute.
tags: Texas Tech in the News