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What should you do if you don't match?

Nov 5, 2014

American Psychological Association- Once you recover from the disappointment of not matching in Phase 1, focus on Phase 2, when APPIC lists unfilled positions from Phase 1, new openings, and sites whose funding only became secured after the Phase 1 deadline. Remember, there is only a six-day period after the Phase 1 results to submit applications to Phase 2. 'It's easy to waste a month moping, [but] there are a lot of really stellar sites in Phase 2,' says Mike Parent, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at Texas Tech.

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Mopping Up Disasters: Textiles Protect People and the Planet

Nov 5, 2014

AATC Review - In 2010, the Nonwovens & Advanced Materials Laboratory at Texas Tech University, which had already gained attention for another invention designed to mitigate smaller-scale oil and chemical disasters, was just beginning to experiment with using an inexpensive, natural, renewable resource to clean up large scale disasters.

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Communities find little success in resisting fracking infrastructure

Nov 4, 2014

AlJazeera America - Processing and disposing of a barrel of hazardous waste can cost 10 times as much as nonhazardous waste, according to Bill Keffer, an environmental law professor at Texas Tech University and a former attorney for the oil and gas industry. “Multiply that by tens or hundreds of thousands or millions of barrels that have to be disposed of across the country, and you could see how the economics of that would change.”

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