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Related News:Executive · Politics · U.S. .Romney Taxes: $7 Million in Donations Over 2 Years

Jan 25, 2012

Bloomberg-At first glance, the dollar amount of the Romneys’ charitable giving is “shocking,” Russell James, director of a graduate program in charitable financial planning at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, said in a telephone interview today. “But it’s a different story when you compare it to total wealth. It’s not a shocking amount when you have a quarter- billion dollars in wealth.”

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Bio-science addresses concerns over castor crop

Jan 23, 2012

Poten and Partners-Believing we can have our cake and eat it too, a group of Texas A&M and Texas Tech researchers have been working together on a castor variety that greatly reduces risk and still offers value in production. Working with the best tools agricultural science can offer, they have aggressively developed a semi-dwarf castor variety with reduced ricin levels and one that allows for mechanized production.

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State higher education commissioner addresses financial aid, in-state tuition and more

Jan 23, 2012

statesman.comEmerging research universities. 'Texas Tech is right at the front of the pack' among schools striving to become tier one research institutions, Paredes said. The commissioner didn't say whether any other emerging institutions were neck and neck with Tech. He emphasized that it's impossible to say when any school might achieve such national status. Paredes has said that it could take 20 to 40 years.

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