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Aug 22, 2012
Military Technologies - Two Texas Tech University professors recently received a five-year, $2 million grant to advance the development of nanoscale materials that could lead to more compact and powerful high-energy solid-state lasers for use by the military in missile defense systems.
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Aug 22, 2012
Texas Lawyer - Huffman says the first mission for the board and the subcommittee will be to “look at the issue of how our military justice system is working in the deployed environment.” He says that the goal is to make sure justice is done in cases where civilian deaths are attributable to U.S. forces. Huffman adds that it is important for Afghan people who lost loved ones to have confidence that, if someone should be held criminally responsible, he or she will be.
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Aug 22, 2012
North Texas e-News - Over the past four years, the Energy Department has supported the testing and validation of newly developed technologies to help further reduce costs and speed the deployment of next generation technologies into the marketplace. In Lubbock, Texas, the Energy Department joined with Texas Tech University and Sandia National Laboratories last month to break ground on a new wind farm testing facility in Lubbock, Texas. Through this facility, public and private institutions will be able to assess new methods and technologies for optimizing whole wind farms’ performance and power production.
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Aug 22, 2012
Bend Bulletin - “There have been many severe droughts here before,' said Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University. “What’s really unusual, though, is the heat. When it’s really hot, it actually makes the drought worse, because the hotter it is, the faster water evaporates, so the drier the soil gets.'
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