Texas Tech Now

Mar 6, 2025 | ttu.edu | Jacob Gordon

CREATORS The opening scene of the 1996 movie “Twister” is unforgettable. It’s 1969, and a family and their dog rush into their home’s tornado shelter right as the F5 tornado makes its way through the neighborhood. A young Jo Harding (the main character whose older version is played by Helen Hunt) can only watch in fear as her father desperately holds the shelter’s door shut from the battering winds. Suddenly, the door is wrenched open.

Jan 22, 2025 | ttu.edu | Jacob Gordon

CREATORS “Accounting” brings to mind many things. Excel spreadsheets with lines of various dollar amounts and complex formulas. Isolated, sometimes stressful workspaces housed in cubicles. Articles or academic papers featuring complicated or confusing tax codes. Sue Yang, assistant professor of accounting at the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, is hoping people’s understanding of accounting will soon expand.

Jan 21, 2025 | ttu.edu

Jan 17, 2025 | ttu.edu | Doug Hensley

CREATORS When Arfin Lodhi showed up on the campus of Texas Tech University, U.S. President John F. Kennedy had proposed a joint mission to the moon, a new daytime serial called “General Hospital” had just debuted and the U.S. Postal Service had introduced a novel idea: ZIP Codes. It was 1963, and Texas Tech, or Texas Technological College as it was known at the time, was observing its 40th anniversary.

Jan 16, 2025 | ttu.edu | Lucy T. Greenberg

CREATORS If you’ve ever bought a diamond, you’re likely familiar with the Four Cs.  Color, Cut, Clarity and Carat. It was the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) that developed the Four Cs, now the standard for diamond assessments. Texas Tech University alumna Rebecca Beals joined the GIA faculty in 2022 and played a vital part in rewriting their curriculum.   She began her career 10 years prior as a bench jeweler.