2018 Graduate School Poster Competition Winners Announced

May 1, 2018

The competition consisted of 19 categories students could enter.

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Tornado Debris Impact Testing and Masonry

May 1, 2018

Structure - Those of you who have had an opportunity to work in jurisdictions that have adopted the 2015 International Building Code (IBC) should have noticed a significant change related to mandatory tornado shelters in a significant portion of the Central U.S. For areas that use the 2015 IBC, this new requirement will impact the majority of new school and emergency facility construction spanning as far north as central Minnesota, as far south as southern Mississippi, and stretching to western Pennsylvania in the east and western Texas to the west. This area is shown in Figure 1 and is where tornadoes with wind speeds of at least 250 mph have a history of occurrence.

Lesson From The Tax Court: The Cohan Doctrine Cannot Always Save You

Apr 30, 2018

TaxProf Blog - One of the first clients I had after graduating from law school in 1987 was a fellow in the construction business. I forget what dispute brought him to us, but I will never forget the “records” he brought: a truckload of paper bags. Turns out that each year he would set a paper grocery bag on the floor and, as the year went by, he would dump anything he thought important into the grocery bag ... if he remembered to do so. You can guess who got to go through all his paper bags.

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Economics Expert Available to Discuss Merger of Sprint and T-Mobile

Apr 30, 2018

After years of negotiations, the major wireless carriers Sprint and T-Mobile announced a massive merger on Sunday (April 29), but a Texas Tech University economics expert says it’s not a done deal yet.

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