By Urvi Dalal To honor Black History Month, Texas Tech students, faculty, and campus organizations took time to support and celebrate Black culture through a myriad of events this past month hosted by the Division of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. However, the celebration and recognition goes beyond the month of February and its historical background. […]
Black Cultural Center, comic book exhibit and Peters Family Legacy Library commemorate Black History Month
February 28, 2023 by
Student Attendance Impacts Win/Loss Rate of Tech Football
December 19, 2022 by
By Robert Barbee, Special Contributor to the Hub@TTU As the Red Raiders look to fill the Jones AT&T Stadium in upcoming seasons, there is a call to students to help hype up the team. In 2016, the Big 12’s average home football game attendance was 57,531 fans. Five years later, fan attendance dropped significantly to […]
Study Abroad Programs Allow First-Generations Students to Explore
November 14, 2022 by
By Melanie Escalante, The Hub@TTU Imagine a summer spent in the southern hemisphere: thick coats and ski goggles; endless mountains. Or a spring spent in the western hemisphere as rain falls on you outside of Buckingham Palace: meeting for tapas before visiting La Sagrada Familia; 500 miles away — the history of the Italian Renaissance. […]
NIL Rules Offering New Opportunities for Texas Tech Athletes
November 14, 2022 by
By Addison Prater, Special to the Hub@TTU Texas Tech athletes are getting an opportunity to capitalize on their name, image, and likeness following the NCAA policy changes that occurred in 2021. Athletes can receive money for anything as small as giving lessons in their sport to doing a commercial for a large brand, whereas before, […]
Putting the fun in fundraising: Raider Cre8ive partners with Ronald McDonald House
November 4, 2022 by
By Melanie Escalante, The Hub@TTU Texas Tech College of Media and Communication’s Raider Cre8ive brand — established in the college’s advertising campaigns course — recently partnered with the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Southwest, combining an opportunity for real-world work experience with the charity of supporting families across the South Plains. Each semester, the […]
Texas Tech’s Makerspace: 3D printing toward a new future
October 19, 2022 by
By Miguel Fernandez-Junco, Special to the Hub@TTU A mind may wander far and explore depths of untapped imagination. Colors that yet exist, improbable structures or fantasy worlds swirl and require an outlet to come to life. Modern technology has progressed to a point where those ideas no longer require years of craftsmanship or skills; instead, […]
Texas Tech implements “servingness” as a Hispanic Serving Institution
May 4, 2022 by
By Melanie Escalante In 2019 Texas Tech became a Hispanic Serving Institution, which is defined by the Federal Government as a non-profit, postsecondary degree-granting institution in which at least 25% of the undergraduate student enrollment population is Hispanic. According to the American Council on Education website, the concept of servingness entails not just enrolling Hispanic […]
Red Raiders across campus prepare for graduation
May 2, 2022 by
By Melanie Escalante On May 13 and May 14 at the United Supermarkets Arena graduating students will walk the stage, closing one door and opening another. Bradley Hewlett, a third-year graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in playwriting, said after graduating he will continue the teaching career he started before he entered the graduate program. […]
Meet Mesgen Gebremeskel, 2022 JCMI Fest Judge
April 29, 2022 by
Finding a career that aligns with one’s interests and passions is no easy task, but it is always rewarding, Mesgen Gebremeskel, Texas Tech alum, shares his journey to realizing his dream career as a colorist. “I was always interested in cinematography as a whole – but there was just always something about it that I […]
Meet Ricardo Cortez, 2022 JCMI Fest judge
April 28, 2022 by
By Melanie Escalante Ricardo Cortez came to Texas Tech to pursue a biology major and graduated in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in electronic media, two weeks before moving to New York to start his career in media production. Cortez, from San Antonio, Texas, said he met a lot of great people at Texas Tech […]
