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Nov 3, 2010
New York Times - When Texas Tech University in Lubbock started the Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence, known as Spice, in 2007, one of the program’s goals was to organize and promote tournaments, particularly for top-level players.
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Nov 2, 2010
Mercury News - Scientists exploring caves in the tumbled piles of rocks around the sides of Yosemite Valley have discovered a new predatory arachnid species with scary, scorpion-style pinchers but no stinger and no eyes, according to a paper published Sept. 30 by the Museum of Texas Tech University.
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Nov 2, 2010
Fort Bend Sun - But Brian Shannon, a Texas Tech law professor who has served on the boards of the Texas Council of Community Mental Health & Mental Retardation Centers and the National Alliance on Mental Illness Texas chapter, hopes state lawmakers will take an in-depth look at how it allocates its dollars, especially when it comes to mental health care.
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Nov 1, 2010
Canyon News - Emily Hunt, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at WTAMU, and her co-author, Dr. Michelle Pantoya, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Texas Tech University, received word Tuesday, Oct. 26 from USABookNews.com that their book Engineering Elephants had been named a finalist in the seventh annual “Best Books 2010” in the Children’s Picture Book Nonfiction category.
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