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Jun 28, 2013
U.S. News & World Report - 'Now the zombie has become a metaphor for the fear of disease,' says Rob Weiner, a librarian at Texas Tech University who will be teaching a course on zombies this fall. The Center for Disease Control even released a plan – albeit tongue in cheek – for zombie preparedness.
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Jun 27, 2013
The Fiscal Times - In truth, the big bank’s concerns over proposed reforms may, in part, be based on false assumptions. In a study published in the Journal of Financial Planning, Michael Finke and Thomas Langdon (professors at Texas Tech and Roger Williams University, respectively, and both certified financial planners) found “no statistical differences” in the ability of fiduciaries “to provide a broad range of products (or) the ability to provide tailored advice (or) the cost of compliance.” In comparing states that already have a fiduciary duty requirement in place and those that don’t, they also couldn’t find any significant difference in the percentages of clients with high net worth. That all suggests that the big banks wouldn’t suffer too much from adopting the higher standard.
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Jun 25, 2013
Arkansas Business - Texas Tech University’s National Wind Institute, essentially a storm shelter proving ground, has tested and approved six shelters from Arkansas in the past two years. At the NWI debris impact lab, repeated volleys of two-by-fours are shot out of a long, cylindrical “tornado cannon” at speeds of up to 100 mph to simulate the pummeling that shelters must withstand in a storm.
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Jun 25, 2013
Investors.com - Texas Tech University is using Mediasite by Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the trusted leader for video content management and webcasting solutions, to seamlessly create a virtual classroom experience three times a week between a professor in Oregon and students in Lubbock, Texas.
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