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Storms possible early today, weekend to have sunny days

Showers are expected to continue today, as the National Weather Service predicts a 30 percent chance of precipitation throughout the day. This comes after a day of severe weather, which rocked most of West Texas and the South Plains.

Lubbock received the lighter portion of the day’s rain, as there were two thunderstorms that came over the city, according to the NWS. But, surrounding Lubbock County were tornado warnings issued for Crosby and Dickens counties, but they expired before the day was through.

The weather brought with it a slight cold front that will drop the spring-like temperature down to a high of near 60 degrees, according to the NWS. Southwest winds will contrib-

ute to the cold temperatures as they blow 10–15 mph, but they will shift to northwest winds later this afternoon.

After around 8 p.m., any rains should subside, and the night will be mostly cloudy with a low of 41 degrees, according to the NWS. However, winds will increase to about 20 to 25 mph and could go as high as 35 mph.

Thursday’s weather will go back to higher temperatures with light wind gust, and afterward the weather is predicted to stay in the mid 70s to 80s, according to the NWS. For Friday and Saturday, the NWS predicts sunny, mostly clear days, according to its website. Meanwhile, Sunday has a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. @MichaelCantuDT

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Hannes Ronneblad reflects on love for golf, home country

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HSC experts tackle doctor shortage issue

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he demand for physicians has intensified nationwide, and it has led some communities to experience doctor shortages. According to a 2017 study conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, by the year 2030, the U.S. will face a shortage of between 40,800 and 104,900 physicians.

In 2010, the Health Sciences Center launched a new three-year medical degree program called the Family Medicine Accelerated Track, according to an HSC news release. The program was designed specifically to combat the shortage of primary-care physicians, particularly in rural communities.

"Texas Tech was the first to establish a three-year program that allowed students to quickly complete their residency training

and begin their careers as practicing family medical doctors," Ron Cook, chairman of the department of family and community medicine at HSC, said. "The purpose of FMAT program was to supply doctors to areas in need of primary-care physicians."

It takes five to 10 years to train a doctor, according to the Association of American Medical College website.

With a population that steadily grows and continually ages over time, the shortage of both primary care and specialty care doctors is of grave concern to health professionals, Cook said.

Another contributing factor to the shortage is the federal government's cap on federally funded residency training positions, he said. The cap was introduced by lawmakers in 1996 and has not been raised since.

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Senior Hannes Ronneblad watches his shot after completing the swing during Tuesday's practice at The Rawls Course. Ronneblad has been on the Texas Tech golf team since 2013. This year, Ronneblad tied for ninth place at the Paintbrush Invitational with a 3-under 213 as well as placed in the top 15 at the Tavistock Collegiate Invitational.

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Senior Hannes Ronneblad traveled across the Atlantic from Kungsbacka, Sweden, to Lubbock not only for his education but also to play for the No. 11 Texas Tech Red Raiders. Ronneblad’s father introduced him to golf, and from there, Ronneblad found his passion.

Before coming to Tech, Ronneblad won the 2012 Kenako South African World Junior Championship title, earned a second-place finish in the 2012 European Boys Team Championship and tied for ninth at the 2012 Polo Golf Classic, according to Tech Athletics.

Ronneblad said the transition from Sweden to the U.S. was not easy.

However, with the help of his team-

mates, he has adjusted to the change.

“It was pretty hard,” Ronneblad said. “It took me basically a full semester to really adapt, but after that, it feels like home, a second home. It’s more the language part of it that was a little tough in the beginning, but just being around all of the guys here, it’s been nice. It’s been pretty easy to adjust.”

In his first year with the Red Raiders, Ronneblad earned a spot on the All-Big 12 Championship team, and he earned spots in Tech’s last four tournaments of the 2013-2014 season, according to Tech Athletics. Among the 10 tournaments he competed in, Ronneblad earned one top-10 finish that season.

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SWC exhibit spotlights Human Sciences to former Texas governor host retail symposium The Texas Tech Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library will host an exhibit documenting the life of former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson at 3 p.m.

Friday in the Formby Room of the library.

Speakers at the event include Tech System Chancellor Robert L. Duncan; Stevenson’s daughter, Jane Chandler; and Stevenson’s grandson, Rep. Andrew Murr, who is also a Tech School of Law alumnus, according to a

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“Gov. Coke Stevenson had a stellar political career in Texas. Unfortunately, in the post-World War II era of highly visible television candidates, historians have overlooked earlier politicians of great repute in their time,” Monte Monroe, Southwest Collection archivist, said in the release. “Also, for many years, Texas historians believed that Stevenson’s personal papers had been destroyed in a barn fire.

However, a few years ago, Tom Arsuffi, director of the Texas Tech Junction Campus reached out to the Southwest Collection, explaining that Gov. Stevenson’s daughter held a large cache of records that needed preserving. Staff at the Southwest Collection

Women’s Studies to host panel on women’s military service The Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center along with Texas Te c h Wo m e n ’s S t u d i e s Program will host a panel discussion on the roles of women in the military from 5–7 p.m. Thursday in the Matador Room of the Student Union Building.

The panel discussion’s purpose is to provide a platform to discuss issues pertaining to the roles of women in the military through a panel of professional leaders currently in the armed services, according to a Tech news release.

Both men and women will participate in the panel to allow attendees to receive

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California prosecutors on Tuesday charged two anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood with 15 felonies, saying they invaded the privacy of medical providers by filming without consent.

State Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the charges against David Daleiden of Davis, California, and Sandra

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“Women in Service was created to teach students how to communicate efficiently and help prepare them for a diverse global society with a heavy focus on career skills,” Keanu Ramos, coordinator of the Division of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement, said in the release.

“Students will leave with an increased awareness of women’s roles in these areas, a more positive self-image and self-worth, and a new development skill set as a positive service provider.”

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worked closely with the family for at least three years to make that happen.”

The collection being displayed in the exhibit includes diaries, legal papers and photographs from when Stevenson was 1 year old up to his death, Monroe said in the release. Stevenson, popularly known as Mr. Texas, was the governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947.

After the reception and exhibit opening, the records will be available for public research purposes, according to the release. Visitor parking is available at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library and between the Student Union Building and the Administration building.

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Merritt of San Jose. The two operate the Irvine-based Center for Medical Progress.

The allegations say the pair filmed 14 people without permission between October 2013 and July 2015 in Los Angeles, San Francisco and El Dorado counties. One felony count was filed for each person. The 15th was for criminal conspiracy to invade privacy.

Becerra says they used a fictitious bioresearch company to meet with women’s health care providers and covertly record them.

The Texas Tech College of Human Sciences Retail Management Program will host the H-E-B Retail Management Symposium from 2–7:30 p.m. April 4 in the Overton Hotel and Conference Center.

The event is sponsored

by H-E-B and Target and will provide students with an opportunity to network with industry professionals while receiving valuable career advice, according to a Tech news release. Texas

Living Magazine, Costco, Suit Supply, Piper,which is a local women’s boutique and Dillard’s are also sponsoring the event.

This year, the Retail Symposium will welcome its first international speaker, Gill Stark, head of the School of Creative and Liberal Arts at Regent’s University-London, according to the release.

There is no cost to attend the event, and registration is open.

“The students will have the opportunity to hear

professionals speak, and they can develop their networking skills throughout the symposium,” Deborah Fowler, director of the Retail Management Program, said in the release. “Many students participate in leadership roles throughout the day. This is one of the opportunities the Retail Management Program offers students to make a successful transition from collegiate life to the professional world.”

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in curricular innovation that will be increasingly competency based,” Steven Berk, HSC exCOOK ecutive vice president, provost and dean of the School of Medicine, said in an HSC release.

“The road ahead for medical education is likely to be linked less to time (and linked more) to demonstrating proficiency in communicating with and caring for patients, and FMAT is one vehicle on that road.”

The FMAT program began training its first class in June 2011, with the first eight students completing training and graduating in May 2013, Betsy Jones, chair of the School of Medicine Department of Medical Education, said. Seven of the eight FMAT graduates chose to practice in Texas, many in small, medically underserved communities.

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ties in the panhandle that have no doctors, hospitals or critical access facilities," Jones JONES said. "Since its establishment, we have had 31 students graduate from the FMAT program."

Access to health care in rural regions is becoming exceedingly scarce, and most FMAT graduates go on to practice in other medically underserved communities, she said. This is how health professionals will tackle this problem going forward, with other medical schools around the country adding similar three-year programs.

"This is a situation where we have more demand for doctors than we can supply," Jones said. "But we're proud of the careers our FMAT graduates have chosen because they have chosen to take their talents to where they are most needed."

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 "We need the federal government to raise the number of residency training slots, so we can have more family physicians, general surgeons and pediatricians," Cook said. "It affects both primary care and specialty care, with shortages in specialty care being particularly large."

U.S. medical school residency matches in family medicine and general internal medicine have fallen by nearly 50 percent since 1997, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians website. A 2006 study by the American Academy of Family Physicians estimated the U.S. would require roughly 39,000 more family physicians by 2020.

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Storm chasers killed near Spur while chasing severe weather storms SPUR, (AP) — Three storm chasers were killed when their vehicles collided at a rural crossroads during severe West Texas storms on Tuesday.

The storms spawned multiple funnel clouds and an occasional tornado in open areas of West Texas on Tuesday afternoon. No damage was reported.

The crash happened at a remote intersection near the town of Spur, about 55 miles

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southeast of Lubbock. Tornadoes had been reported nearby at the time of the crash and heavy rain had been reported in the area, according to the National Weather Service.

The Texas Department of Public Safety identified the three storm chasers killed as Kelley Gene Williamson, 57, and Randall Delane Yarnall, 55, both of Cassville, Missouri, and Corbin Lee Jaeger, 25, of Peoria, Arizona.

DPS Sgt. John Gonzalez said the Chevrolet Suburban driven by Williamson ran a stop sign and slammed into the Jeep driven by Yarnall with Jaeger as passenger. All three were killed instantly.

O n We d n e s d a y, t h e threat shifts eastward, and forecasters say about 19 million people in Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana could see stormy weather, including the possibility of strong tornadoes.

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Senate, White House pass on push to revive health bill WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans and White House officials sounded ready to abandon efforts to repeal and replace the nation’s health care law, at least for now, even as House Republicans — and the president himself — insisted Tuesday they were not ready to give up.

The intraparty dispute came in the wake of last Friday’s collapse of health care legislation in the House, a GOP humiliation at the climactic moment of seven years of promises to get rid of former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., made his views clear after a closed-door lunch with fellow Senate Republicans and Vice President Mike Pence.

“It’s pretty obvious we were not able, in the House, to pass a replacement. Our Democratic friends ought to be pretty happy about that because we have the existing law in place, and I think we’re just going to have to see how that works out,” McConnell said. “We believe it will not work out well, but we’ll see.”

“I want to thank the president and the speaker, they went all out to try to pass repeal and replacement.

Sorry that didn’t work,” McConnell added.

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affairs director Marc Short also emerged from the Senate GOP lunch indicating the administration was moving on despite President Donald Trump’s promises as a candidate to immediately get rid of Obama’s law.

“We understand there’s probably members in Congress who feel like ‘Look, we probably need to revisit this, and we need to make an effort to get it done,’ and if that’s the case, if the legislation reaches the president’s desk, I’m sure he’ll look to sign it,” Short told The Associated Press. “But at this time, at this time today, there are other things that we have on our priority list that we’re moving on to.”

Short pointed to the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, whose nomination will be on the Senate floor next week, as well as a looming funding deadline on April 28 that must be met to keep the lights on in the government. Short said that “of course” the White House hopes to avoid a shutdown. And, senior Republicans and the White House are eager to move on to tax overhaul legislation.

Hours later, though, Trump himself told a bipartisan gathering of lawmakers that he expects to hammer out a new health care deal and thinks it can happen “very quickly.”

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American values contradict, leading to mental anguish

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ur country is the poster child for individualism.

As a society, we are geared toward equipping and uplifting individuals. We are focused on excelling independently and succeeding personally. We are dead-set on climbing the ladder, racing to the finish line and achieving our dreams.

This is one of the characteristics that makes the United States so unique. Constantly, we are encouraged to shoot for the stars and be the best we can be. Sometimes, however, I wonder if this is an internally flawed goal. To be considered the best we can be, do we actually need to be any of the positive traits we are told to cherish?

You see, we are told to value honesty, integrity, kindness, sincerity, diligence, patience and peacefulness. Yet, we are taught to cling to cunningness, flexibility, ambition, haste, sharp-tongued vocabularies, quick thinking and confrontational attitudes. We are told to be first in our class but then forced to wade through waves of cheating, dishonesty and desperation to do so. We are told to be kind to everyone but then find ourselves in a puddle of shallow approval.

We are told to work diligently and be patient but then are reminded that “the early bird gets the worm.”

How can all of these qualities exist simultaneously?

How can a human possibly navigate the ever-conflicting demands of a bipolar society?

I’m not sure we can.

We often find that the United States has the highest frequency of diagnosed cases of depression and anxi-

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ety, second only to India and China, according to U.S. News. What does this tell us about our culture?

Now, considering I was born and raised stateside, I can only evaluate India and China from the perspective of an educated outsider. Within the broad culture of these separate countries, exceptional performance-based results are demanded, and society is largely driven by the fickle force that declares or destroys one’s honor.

Therefore, it makes sense that the elevated expectation for near perfection in these two countries would emphasize the inevitable imperfection that results from one’s humanity, leaving the citizens of these countries in a compromised mindset.

Essentially, while someone is being told he must be the best he can be, the pressure of this demand essentially counteracts his effort to succeed.

We see this in America, too.

I’m going to join the crowd of analysts who are studying this matter by citing a rather trite example: the college student.

What might most of us give or hear as a reasoning for why college students are often found drunk on a Friday night? I would venture to guess it is because students believe, after a long and taxing week of work, such a finale seems only reasonable.

So, what this situation

essentially exemplifies is how our perilous and unrelenting drive can push us to a point of mental anguish. Some may “recover” from such a state by drinking. Some may try to “recover” by antisocially staying in bed all weekend. Some may try to “recover” by resigning to the temptation of cheating.

Regardless, I believe that our society’s damaging insistence on excellence is destroying the very greatness it strives to produce. And, while this might appear to simply be a struggle that is randomly scattered throughout our population, I believe it afflicts each and every one of us to varying degrees.

Do we know how affected we are by our environment, by our culture? Do we understand that the social anxiety that seizes our hearts or the depression that numbs our minds is a symptom of being in a success-obsessed, individualistic, over-stimulated society?

I don’t think we do. I think we are blindly drudging along in this ambitious culture, waiting for the day when a nap doesn’t mean we’re lazy and doing something recreational isn’t seen as a waste of time.

I promise, I am hardly the United States’ largest critic.

In fact, I am often caught singing our great country’s praises. However, I feel burdened by the reality that we are all deeply engrossed in a cycle of structurally perpetuated inadequacy.

Break free.

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Latest ‘Dark Souls’ downloadable content astounds, impresses

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ollowing the lukewarm reviews — as in, a 71 out 100 composite critic score on Metacritic — for the first downloadable content for “Dark Souls 3,” the second and final content piece has big shoes to fill. Released on Tuesday, fans were hoping this final downloadable content — titled “The Ringed City” — would end “Dark Souls 3” with a bang.

I’m happy to say “The Ringed City” doesn’t disappoint.

While I won’t spoil anything major, be warned some minor spoilers lie ahead.

While “Ashes of Ariandel” — the first downloadable content for “Dark Souls 3” — lacked variety, “The Ringed City” has variety in spades.

As I explored the titular city, there were a couple of moments where I thought I had seen everything the new content had to offer. As quickly as these moments came, so they left. “The Ringed City” shakes up its environments and enemies just as things start to grow old, ensuring players never get bored.

Throughout my journey, I

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was constantly rewarded with grand vistas, interesting enemy design, creative new weapons and — this is a “Dark Souls” game, after all — a brutal challenge.

And what a challenge “The Ringed City” is. Putting in more than 170 hours’ worth into “Dark Souls 3,” I’ve beaten the game several times over and consider myself to be pretty good at it.

As I began the new content — somewhat cocky, I must admit — I was quickly put in my place, dying time and time again as if it were my first time playing a “Dark Souls” game. It’s certainly hard but in the best “Dark Souls” way possible.

From new enemy types to the ways levels are laid out, “The Ringed City” offers some of the greatest challenges I’ve encountered in my time with “Dark Souls

3.” I was forced to abandon my tried-and-true strategy of taking the biggest weapon I could find and spamming “R1,” and to instead use the environment and careful strategy to make progress. A certain enemy in the opening area attacks the player from above, forcing players to scan the environment and find cover to hide behind. Another enemy found in the later stages of “The Ringed City” is best taken down from above, causing players to find areas higher up to wait in ambush.

The levels themselves go from large, open areas to smaller, confined spaces shifting the flow of battle.

Sometimes this makes doing battle easier — enemies with sweeping attacks are best fought out in the open — although typically with larger spaces comes a greater number of enemies. “The Ringed City” never goes to the unfair number of enemies “Dark Souls 2” throws at players, but crowd control is, nonetheless, an important skill here.

Unlike “Ashes of Ariandel” and the main campaign

of “Dark Souls 3,” the areas depicted in “The Ringed City” are quite large but not barren. Each area is filled with hidden areas that reward players with interesting new weapons and armor, making exploration worthwhile. I often felt like Indiana Jones — except with heavy, metal armor and a huge sword — as I explored the foreign world in search of new treasures and the way forward.

If you’re even the smallest fan of “Dark Souls 3,” “The Ringed City” is a must-buy.

There are four bosses in “The Ringed City.” Three are encountered naturally as players progress through the content, while one boss is optional and requires a short quest to be completed before it becomes active. All of the bosses are great, with the

optional boss easily taking the crown as the hardest boss in “Dark Souls 3.”

The Nameless King from the main campaign is most often regarded as the hardest boss in “Dark Souls 3.”

Imagine a boss 10 times harder than that. Imagine a boss that can easily two shot a player that has reached the “Vigor” soft cap. Imagine a boss that has so much health, even with a heavy-hitting great sword, only a centimeter is subtracted from the boss’s health after one hit.

Indeed, such a boss does exist in the form of the optional boss in “The Ringed City.” I have killed every single boss in “Dark Souls 3” — including the bosses in both downloadable contents — on my own except for this boss. It is so difficult that I decided to wait for three hours for someone to come to my aid, so I could finally down the boss in time for this review.

The real star of the show is the final boss, however. It’s challenging and fast, and it looks absolutely incredible.

Akin to the speed and intensity of the fight with Champion Gundyr from the main campaign — but on steroids — the last boss instantly became my favorite in “Dark Souls 3.” There isn’t a whole lot I can say without spoiling anything, but — when combined with the incredible score, awesome design of the boss’s visuals and high-intensity gameplay — it wraps up “The Ringed City” in the best way possible.

With expansive levels encouraging — and often requiring — exploration, interesting new enemies, fun new weapons and armor, and some of the best boss designs in the game, “The Ringed City” does not let fans down like its predecessor did. Being the final piece of content developer FromSoftware will create for “Dark Souls 3,” “The Ringed City” offers a fitting ending to one of the best games ever created.

If you’re even the smallest fan of “Dark Souls 3,” “The Ringed City” is a must-buy. aolges@dailytoreador.com

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Donald Trump's lawyers: 'Apprentice' contestant cannot sue president NEW YORK (AP) — Republican President Donald Trump’s lawyers say he’s immune while president from defamation claims brought by a former contestant on his reality TV show “The Apprentice” who accused him of unwanted sexual contact.

The lawyers said in a state Supreme Court filing Monday they’ll formally ask for a dismissal or a suspension of the January claims by Summer Zervos until he leaves office.

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tion immunizes Trump from being sued in state court while he’s president.

The lawyers said their position is supported by a long line of U.S. Supreme Court cases requiring courts to show deference to the president and his schedule.

Zervos was a contestant on Trump’s reality show in 2006. She sued after Trump dismissed as “fabricated and made-up charges” her claims at a news conference that he made unwanted sexual

contact with her at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2007.

The lawsuit sought an apology and $2,914.

Trump’s lawyers said in Monday’s filing that the president denies “these unfounded accusations” and was prepared to show that they were “false, legally insufficient and made in a transparent politically-motivated attack.”

They said the allegations have been disputed even by a member of Zervos’ family.

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women who made sexual allegations against Trump when he was the Republican nominee during the presidential race last year. Trump has strenuously denied their allegations.

After appearing on Trump’s show, Zervos said she later asked him for a job. She said they met and he kissed her on the lips and asked for her phone number.

She said at a later meeting at a California hotel he became sexually aggressive, kissing her and touching her breasts.

During the presidential campaign, a tape of Trump talking about fame enabling him to grope and try to have sex with women emerged. On the 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape, Trump says when he’s attracted to beautiful women “I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet.” He says when you’re a star, women let you.

“Grab them by the p----,” Trump adds in the video. “You can do anything.”

Trump later said in a presidential debate that he

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never did any of the actions heard on the tape, which he described as locker room talk.

Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, blamed “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush for what Trump said. She said they were involved in “boy talk, and he was led on, like egged on, from the host to say dirty and bad stuff.”

A Zervos attorney, Gloria Allred, said she doesn’t believe the president of the United States enjoys legal immunity from a defamation lawsuit.

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Undergraduate students display research

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The 2017 Undergraduate Research Conference began in the Student Union Building ballroom on Tuesday with undergraduate students presenting their research in various areas including arts, biological and chemical sciences, humanities and social sciences.

Jerylme Robins, unit coordinator for undergraduate research in the Center for Active Learning & Undergraduate Engagement, said this is the ninth conference hosted at Tech. There are six visiting institutions for the conference.

Around 200 Tech undergraduate students are presenting their research at the conference, Robins said.

Faculty-led research usually consists of students participating in a portion of a faculty member’s research. But, some students are taking another approach, Robins said.

“A good number of the students actually have their own project,” Robins said, “and the faculty’s just serving as a mentor through the process.”

Robins said among the research posters that stuck out to him was one that detailed how the character Loki was portrayed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the one that detailed development of a saddle for bicycles.

Cynthia Perez, a junior psychology major from Amherst, said her research was for the department of computer science and involved testing declarative programming with high school students to observe how they understand and applied it to situations that require problem solving.

“The whole purpose of it is to try to introduce it as a new strategy to teaching students computer science and getting them more interested in it,” Perez said.

When it comes to making a research poster, Perez said, one has to balance the content so that both people involved and those not involved with computer science can understand the research.

Parth Patel, a sophomore microbiology major from Austin, said his research involved the vaccine Sm-p80 and how

it compares to other vaccines in targeting the Schistosoma japonicum parasite.

“The way that the parasite infects a human is just through skin contact,” Patel said, “and the way that it returns back to the environment is through defecation or urination.”

The parasite can be found in developing nations, and the process of the research involved vaccinating mice three times and then using the Schistosoma japonicum on them during the 12th week, Patel said.

Six weeks were given for the parasite to go through the bodies of the mice, and they usually ended up in the liver or the spleen, Patel said. Then, a necropsy was conducted after 18 weeks to analyze the response from the mice’s immune systems.

Most students present their research at other disciplinespecific conferences after the Tech conference, Robins said.

“Our conference is a good preparation for that,” Robins said, “because usually at discipline-specific conferences, it’s a lot more intense as far as the reviewers, the questions that they ask and things like that.”

Patel said the conference has helped him in sharing research and understanding the implications of research.

“Research isn’t just about finding new jobs, finding out new scientific methods,” Patel said. “It’s also about having that curiosity to want to know why someone is infected with something versus trying to treat some random disease.”

Patel said the researchers involved in his project are hoping to be able to produce the vaccine for people in need.

Workshops and funding are provided for undergraduate researchers throughout the year, Robins said, and the most important aspect of the students being able to display this research is the experience.

“It’s just different, even practicing your presentation with your faculty member or your friend,” Robins said, “versus actually having someone that you don’t know, who you’re not familiar with, but does have expertise, actually come up and ask you questions.”

The conference will continue at 9 a.m. today with the Visual Art Exhibition. @KirbyWarnerDT

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The Texas Tech track and field team will participate in the annual Texas Relays from today through Saturday in Austin at

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This will be the third outdoor meet of the season that the Red Raiders will compete in, according to Tech Athletics. On Friday and Saturday, Tech competed in the ACU Wes Kittley Invita-

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achievement landed Brown at No. 8 all time in the long jump for the Red Raiders, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

The men’s 4x100 relay team is also set to make an appearance at the Texas Relays. Last weekend, the team found itself with a time of 39.53 seconds, which gave it the No. 10 spot in the Tech record books, according to the release. The women’s 4x100 relay team will compete, as well, after having a strong performance in Abilene last weekend with a winning time of 44.59 seconds.

Senior Viershanie Latham was another Red Raider who put herself in the record books at No. 2 in the triple jump after landing a mark of 13.46 m/ 44-2.00, which also won her the meet title last weekend, according to the release. Additionally, Latham placed third in the women’s 200-meter dash with a time of 24.04 seconds.

Freshman Happiness Okeke is another athlete who will represent the Red Raiders at the Texas Relays and com-

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In the 2014-2015 season, Ronneblad earned First-Team Academic AllBig 12 honors and competed in all 13 tournaments, according to Tech Athletics. He finished the year with six top-10 finishes.

In the 2015-2016 season, Ronneblad racked up multiple awards, including PING All-Region nominee, GCAA All-Academic Scholar and First-Team Academic All-Big 12.

Ronneblad said the achievements and awards he has received throughout his collegiate career are a testament to his drive to be the best. “(It says) that whatever that I want to do, I want to do well,” Ronneblad said.

“It can get hard sometimes, because you want to perfect everything, but I guess that’s something I really want to do. I want to be good. You need to have the will to do everything as good as you possibly can.”

Ronneblad entered the spring slate of the 2017 season in the Palmer Cup European’s top 20, according to Tech Athletics.

In the most recent tournament at the Bandon Dunes Championship from March 12–14 in Bandon, Oregon, Ronneblad earned his second colle-

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Senior sprinter Kyle Collins readies for the 4x400 relay on March 24, 2016, at the Texas Tech Outdoor Open. The members of the men’s 4x400 relay team will participate at the Texas Relays in Austin that will be hosted from today through Saturday. pete once more in the women’s discus. Okeke’s best mark was on March 17-18 in San Antonio at the UTSA Invitational when she threw for a distance of 49.43 m/ 162-2, according to Tech Athletics.

This will be the 90th annual Texas Relays with just under 200 college teams competing against each other this week, according to Texas Athletics. giate-career individual title. In 2015, Ronneblad won the Lone Star Invitational and is one of six players under Tech coach Greg Sands to earn multiple individual titles.

Ronneblad was recently selected to the Arnold Palmer Cup European team along with Tech teammate junior Fredrik Nilehn, according to Tech Athletics. Sands said this is an honor for both Red Raiders, and it will add to their experience.

“Anytime you get to play for your country, your continent in this case, it’s an honor,” Sands said. “So, it brings out a little more.

You see what happens in the Ryder Cup when these guys get to play for USA or Europe. So, I think it gives you a sense of pride in where you’re from to represent them.”

For Ronneblad, he said his plans after graduating from Tech include getting a few starts in the Challenge Tour in Europe.

“I’m still playing golf.

That part is not really different,” Ronneblad said, “But just the fact that it is professionally, and it’s the way I want to finance my life.”

When he was a child, Ronneblad competed in soccer, alpine skiing and also golf, but in the end, he found golf was the right sport for him. However, he

Last year, Texas Relays was ranked the 13th-best multiday meet in the world, according to statistical analysis by www.All-Athletics.com.

For the fifth year in a row, the Longhorn Network will provide coverage of the meet.

The broadcast schedule will be announced soon, according to Texas Athletics. @M_Ramos_DT

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Senior Hannes Ronneblad puts on the green during the Red Raider Shootout on April 18, 2015, at The Rawls Course.

Ronneblad gained his love of golf through his father, who also played golf. said he goes skiing from time to time, an activity his family has done his whole life.

“I liked competing in all sports, but I think I realized a little bit early that I wanted to do an individual sport,” Ronneblad said. “So, that’s where soccer got out of it, because I didn’t want to be that dependent on other people, but then, I just realized that I was just a lot better at golf. So, it was pretty natural.” @JackDensmore_DT

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