By Urvi Dalal and Reece Nations When passing certain areas on Texas Tech’s campus, one can expect to see and hear the birds that inhabit its trees. What might come as a surprise to some and a modest hazard to others is that these birds will sometimes swoop towards pedestrians who venture too close to […]
Texas Tech Football Through the Years: A Tribute to Texas Tech’s Centennial Celebration
November 1, 2023 by
By Urvi Dalal / The Hub@TTU Throughout its 100-year existence, Texas Tech has prided itself in education and research as well as the athletics program. A multitude of athletes have graduated from the university and gone on to professional careers. Texas Tech’s student section has also been recognized as one of the top student sections […]
Lubbock churches cultivate Tech students through free meals, spiritual guidance
October 20, 2023 by
By Mackenzie Sams When Texas Tech student Abigail Smith converted to Catholicism six months ago, she didn’t know where to begin finding a church in Lubbock. She started calling churches one by one, asking to talk to a priest. She isn’t alone in her struggle. College is a time of transition and for religious students, […]
eSports Lab adds new opportunity in College of Media & Communication
October 17, 2023 by
By A.J. Salazar In January 2023, Texas Tech University established the eSports Competition and Streaming Lab located on the first floor of the College of Media & Communication. Braxton Parrott, a Texas Tech Information Technology alumnus and current student assistant at CoMC, said what was once an abandoned call center has now transformed into a […]
Tech Researchers Act to Conserve Elusive Texas Kangaroo Rat
August 29, 2023 by
By Samantha Stuhr On a sunny and blistering hot day in July, a small group of researchers who dare to face the heat are getting packets of seeds (each weighing 3 grams exactly) out of a mud-ridden white Texas Tech Natural Resource Management truck with a dent on the side and pouring them into trays […]
Student Spotlight: Q&A with Iranian experimental music composer Ali Balighi
May 4, 2023 by
By Venus Bayat Ali Balighi is an international music composition student at Texas Tech from Tehran, Iran. He is an experimental music composer who, in most cases, composes works inspired by Iranian folklore and traditional music. Much of his work as a composer focuses on “micro-tonality,” novel instrumental approaches, electronic- and electroacoustic music. Balighi began […]
Upward Bound programs back in business
March 10, 2023 by
By Melanie Escalante For the first time since 2017, first-generation, low-income secondary students in the Lubbock Independent School District will be able to engage with Red Raiders to help them prepare for college – an opportunity made possible through the Upward Bound and Upward Bound Math and Science programs. The Department of Education renewed Texas […]
The Legacy of Ronald E. McNair at Texas Tech
March 6, 2023 by
By Melanie Escalante / The Hub@TTU In 1959, a 9-year-old black boy living in segregated Lake City, South Carolina, was denied the opportunity to check out books. Standing firm in his desire, he refused to leave. Once the cops arrived, the librarian was instructed to allow him the opportunity to check out the books he […]
Texas Tech hosts President’s Gender Equity Awards amid DEI hiring policy controversy
March 1, 2023 by
By Melanie Escalante The President’s Excellence in Gender Equity Awards at Texas Tech highlight staff and faculty members who display efforts in promoting gender equity at all academic levels across the university. Archie Pitsilides, outreach committee chair for the Gender Equity Council and member of the Title IX committee, said in the five years he […]
When Trouble Comes: A day in the life of a Texas Tech equestrian team member
December 7, 2022 by
By Malone Graham, Special Contributor to the Hub@TTU Trouble comes for opponents when the Texas Tech Equestrian Team steps into the arena at a competition. Trouble also comes when his rider, Kaycee Edwards, leads him into the Wilson Arena at the Texas Tech Equestrian Center. Edwards, a senior at Tech, is the Horse Coordinator Officer […]
