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Jul 7, 2014
Salon.com - The question of whether that’s doing enough to affect water quality or otherwise harm the environment is still up for debate: Andrew Jackson, a perchlorate expert at Texas Tech, pointed out to Salon that the health effects of perchlorate are chronic, not acute, ”so it would take long-term exposure for it to really be a problem” — in other words, more than can be accomplished during a one-night celebration.
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Jul 7, 2014
nbcnews.com - The scope of this mounting crisis is difficult to overstate: The High Plains of Texas are swiftly running out of groundwater supplied by one of the world’s largest aquifers – the Ogallala. A study by Texas Tech University has predicted that if groundwater production goes unabated, vast portions of several counties in the southern High Plains will soon have little water left in the aquifer to be of any practical value.
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Jul 1, 2014
HealthCareDesignMagazine.com - Debajyoti Pati, Rockwell Endowment Professor, Department of Design, Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas), and Upali Nanda, Vice President and Director of Research, HKS Inc. (Dallas), joined colleagues from Texas Tech and American Art Resources (Houston) to explore the potential influence of design aspects in the physical environment—specifically, contours—on amygdala activation, the brain region associated with fear response.
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Jul 1, 2014
Haramaya University - Dr. Girma Amente, president of HU, said during the occasion that there is high interest from Texas Tech University’s side to forge meaningful and successful partnership with HU in terms of staff-student exchange and joint research projects, among others. The former Ambassador of USA in Ethiopia, Tibor Nagy, who is currently vice provost for International Relations at the University has a great contribution for creating strong bond, Dr. Girma added
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