X
Apr 6, 2012
Bloomberg-Many farmers today see themselves as small-business owners, says Cindy Rugeley, a political science professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Republican identification with low taxes and less regulation appeals to them; meanwhile, government payments that have existed for generations “are institutionalized -- they’re part of business,” she says.
tags: Texas Tech in the News
Apr 6, 2012
The Telegraph India-“These were fully terrestrial, like modern ostriches,” said Sankar Chatterjee, a professor and curator of palaeontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University in the US, who is an authority on ancient flying reptiles called pterosaurs and the biomechanics of flight but was not associated with this discovery.
tags: Texas Tech in the News
Apr 5, 2012
TRIB Local Highland Park High School student Kellen Svetov was named a semifinalist of the 71st annual Science Talent Search. The competition is sponsored by the Intel Corporation and Society for Science and the Public; its goal is to bring together the best and brightest young scientific minds in the United States to compete for $1.23 million in awards.
tags: Texas Tech in the News
Apr 4, 2012
National Review Online However, a group of scientists at Texas Tech University “didn’t find a lot of evidence that those stressors” that are known to be harmful to the lizard, including hydrogen sulfide gas, petroleum hydrocarbon, and the herbicide Tebuthiuron,“were that pronounced in areas that would be considered high oil and natural gas production activity.”
tags: Texas Tech in the News