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What It Feels Like... To String 25,000 Holiday Lights

Mar 9, 2008

Red Raiders enjoy holiday lights each year thanks to the efforts of the Texas Tech Building Maintenance and Construction Section. For three years, Kyle Cooper has made sure all 25,000 lights are strung correctly and working properly. The mechanical superintendent at Texas Tech’s Physical Plant, Cooper oversees months of labor that go into putting Will Rogers in a ring of holiday fire and credits the skill and dedication of Electric Shop employees for making it happen.

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What It Feels Like... To Create the Big Bang Behind Exploding Nanoparticles

Mar 9, 2008

Few professionals practice the motto, “Safety First,” more than Michelle Pantoya. But then again, few people have the job of detonating highly energetic materials in their workplace. This mechanical engineering professor observes reactions between energetic materials in her Texas Tech laboratory – sometimes with unpredictable results. While working with a unique sample of nanoparticles, Pantoya and her lab assistant, Emily Hunt, came across such a reaction.

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What It Feels Like... To Work in the Zone of Alienation

Mar 9, 2008

Robert Baker, Horn professor of biology, is one of the world’s foremost experts on the repercussions of radioactive fallout on plants and animals near the Chernobyl disaster site. He first visited Chernobyl in 1994, eight years after a nuclear meltdown decimated an area that was once home to 120,000 people, and has visited more than 20 times since then.

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