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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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Jun 21, 2013
U.S. News- 'What [Gandolfini] did was bring it to television, to the homes of millions of people on the small screen. It brought the concept of the mafia family dynamic into the homes of American audience,' says Rob Weiner, an associate librarian on pop culture at Texas Tech University. 'He was 'The Godfather' figure for the millennium.'
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Jun 21, 2013
The Norman Transcript- Ernst Kiesling, executive director of the National Storm Shelter Association and research professor at Texas Tech University’s National Wind Institute, said surviving a tornado isn’t dependent upon having access to a certified shelter.
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