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Nov 8, 2010
Physorg.com - Wine grapes that flourish in certain parts of Europe just might excel in West Texas. Or at least that’s what researchers at Texas Tech University are hoping to find out.
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Nov 8, 2010
Food Safety News - TV's role in the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak of 2008, which wreaked havoc with the nation's tomato crop, is the subject of a new academic study by Texas Tech University.
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Nov 8, 2010
CBS News - The rare discovery, which was made in China's Yunan region, is offers a closer look at the evolution of this herbivorous dinosaurs. Until now, their development has been 'poorly understood because of a highly incomplete fossil record,' according to Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University, who will be detailing discovery on Oct. 31 at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver. Later sauropods would go on to average 120 feet in length and could weigh 100 tons. By comparison, this early incarnation of the dinosaur was a relative pipsqueak. Still, the skeleton found by Chatterjee's team reveals the the beginning of a long neck that would come later, as well as a four-legged posture. The skull is also in one piece.
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Nov 5, 2010
News Blaze - Mr. Hance is the Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Hance was senior partner in Hance Scarborough, LLP, an Austin law firm. Mr. Hance formerly represented Texas as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, previously served as a Texas State Senator (serving on the Finance and State Affairs committees), and also served as Chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas.
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