Video by Blake Silverthorn The New Petroleum Engineering Building When entering the new Terry Fuller Petroleum Engineering Research Building, you first notice the Double T on the floor, but then you notice how the entrance hall tells the story of petroleum engineering. Visitors cannot miss the wall to the right that resembles geological layers in […]
Fortune 500 Companies Donate Money to Tech
February 13, 2014 by
The new Texas Tech University petroleum engineering building will receive another $2 million thanks to donations from the third largest U.S. corporation and a Texas-based Fortune 500 oil and gas company. Chevron, a California-based energy corporation ranked third on the Fortune 500 list, is giving $500,000 to Tech. The money will be used to create the […]
When the “Music” Died & The Brits Took Over
February 11, 2014 by
“And while Lenin read a book on Marx, A quartet practiced in the park, And we sang dirges in the dark, The day the music died.” Don McLean’s hit song, “American Pie,” references the 1959 plane crash that took the lives of rock ‘n’ roll star and Lubbock-native, Buddy Holly, as well as Ritchie Valens, J.P. Richardson and Pilot […]
An Evolving University in a Diversifying State
February 11, 2014 by
After reading her University of Texas at Austin rejection letter last spring, Emma Riggs immediately felt less valuable than the qualified students she knew at the university. The freshman architecture major from Allen, Texas, said her plan was to join some of her friends at UT Austin, and she was confident her well-rounded resume would garner her […]
Pippen v. Student Government Association
February 5, 2014 by
Texas Tech University’s student Supreme Court released a verdict last week against the Student Government Association. The Tech student Supreme Court met Saturday to hear the case about the potential removal of an engineering student from his position of senator in the Student Government Association. Matt Pippen, a senator for the Whitacre College of Engineering, […]
New Graduate Student Housing to Allow Alcohol
February 4, 2014 by
Texas Tech University is known to be an alcohol-free campus, but a select group of legal, responsible students will soon be allowed to possess alcohol on campus for the first time in the school’s history. Sean Duggan, the managing director for the university student housing, said the new housing complex currently under construction on 19th […]
High-rise Hotel to Replace Chrome and Cafe J?
January 31, 2014 by
Rumors are circulating in Lubbock that local businessman Clayton Isom plans to buy the land where the Cafe J restaurant and Chrome retail store now do business and may build a new high-rise hotel there. Isom said he is in the process of buying the land, but said he is just “considering” building a high-rise […]
Applications Open for Mortar Board
January 28, 2014 by
Time is running out to apply for the national honor society whose members are recognized as some of the top seniors at Texas Tech University. The Forum Chapter of Mortar Board is accepting membership applications for the 2014-2015 school year until Feb. 1. Students currently in their junior or senior year whose graduation date is after summer 2014 […]
Strive For Honor… And Energy Efficiency
January 22, 2014 by
Facilities Going Green Texas Tech University Vice Chancellor of Facilities, Planning and Construction Michael Molina said Texas Tech used to be behind the curve on the LEED and sustainability efforts, but his office made the commitment for all new buildings to be LEED certified three and a half years ago. The new student complex that the […]
Texas is Closing the Gaps
January 11, 2014 by
A sidebar to An Evolving University in a State Diversifying: Ethan Logan, then Texas Tech University executive director for Undergraduate Admissions, said the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board adopted the Closing the Gaps by 2015 initiative to higher education diversity. Logan said the plan calls for higher education institutions to represent the community or geographic region they are […]
