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Aug 30, 2010
Round Rock Leader.com - Students involved with the automotive technology programs in Hutto and Taylor ISDs are one step closer to becoming Texas Tech University Red Raiders through a new partnership announced Aug. 17 at the East Williamson County Higher Education Center in Taylor.
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Aug 30, 2010
Discovery News 'Robotic strategies are intriguing, and they create further opportunity to consider responses in the future,' said Ron Kendall, director of the Institute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University and professor of environmental toxicology. Although robots hold promise, Kendall cautions that they could have key limitations. Kendall said that much of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf entered the water column, which would present a serious challenge to robots that stay on the surface. He also compares the surface oil he saw in the Gulf to extremely sticky chocolate mousse. Even nonwoven material developed at Texas Tech that can absorb 40 times its weight in crude oil couldn’t handle the substance. “This demonstrates the need for new innovation in oil spill cleanup and remediation,” he said.
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Aug 30, 2010
Resource ShelfAfter several months developing the collections, the Texas Tech University School of Law Library has announced the official launching of the TTU School of Law Digital Repository designed to save, store, archive, and share Tech Law’s digital materials, including research and scholarship of TTU Law faculty and students, institutional history, and more.
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Aug 30, 2010
Statesman.com - Texas Tech has its own supercomputers and is maxing out their capacity, said Taylor Eighmy, Texas Tech's vice president for research. And though the university can also get access to federal systems, having additional access to the new Lonestar is 'immensely valuable to us,' he said. Supercomputers allow immensely complex computations, which require a lot of bandwidth and data storage, Eighmy said. 'The ability to do these things as fast as possible is where advances happen now,' he said.
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