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New Dinosaur Extinction Theories

Nov 11, 2009

Dr. Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University has found a crater in India that is far bigger than the one in Mexico. Reporting on the find, The Economist (October 24, 2009) says Chatterjee’s crater “is 500 kilometres across. The explosion that caused it may have been 100 times the size of the one that created Chicxulub. He calls it Shiva, after the Indian deity of destruction.”

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Ionic Liquid's Makeup Measurably Non-Uniform at the Nanoscale

Nov 11, 2009

Researchers at Texas Tech University, Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland, the University of Rome and the National Research Council in Italy recently made a discovery about the non-uniform chemical compositions of ionic liquids that could lead to greater understanding and manipulation of these multi-purpose, designer solvents.

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After Prop. 4: Who gets the money?

Nov 11, 2009

“I do think Texas Tech and the University of Houston have a leg up because of their large base of graduates and their standing in the Legislature, and their fund-raising capabilities, and a number of things the Legislature wants you to have to match some of this stuff. But I think UTEP gets across the goal line,” said Rick Francis, an El Paso banker and Texas Tech regent. “I think (UTEP President) Diana Natalicio can get it done. I have a great deal of belief in her.”

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