The Board of Regents for Texas Tech University System convened into a virtual special meeting on Tuesday, May 25 at 4:05 p.m.Â
The board immediately convened into executive session for an hour and a half. The board then reconvened into open session to vote on two items
Authorize President Lawrence Schovanec of Tech begin plans on building a new indoor tennis facility. The motion passed with unanimous consent of the board.
Authorize the secretary of the Board of Regents to revise the regent s rules to update the structure the the board s standing committees. Regents Cody Campbell, Pat Gordon and John Stienmetz all opposed the motion, the six other regents voted in favor of the motion. The motion passed.Â
Lubbock will soon have a VA clinic to be proud of.
The new Lubbock VA Outpatient Clinic on 4th Street and Indiana Avenue, across the street from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, will open on Tuesday, June 1.
The $12.3 million, multi-story facility will offer 94,000 square feet of clinical space and new services. Of the many new services are surgical care, an eye clinic, radiology services, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and more.
According to the Amarillo Veterans Administration Health Care System, the new building will allow for expanded primary care, mental health, telehealth, dental and pharmacy services.
Dr. Rodney Gonzalez, director of the Amarillo VA Health Care System, which the Lubbock VA falls under, says the new clinic is more than three times larger than the current facility. He said this is a modern clinic, adding that it s a facility that the region will be proud of.
On Monday, May 17, 2021 the City of Lubbock received a tornado warning from the National Weather Service in Lubbock. With the threat of severe weather, Lubbock and Texas Tech offer students and citizens several warning notification systems.
The last time Lubbock received a tornado warning was on April 30, 2012, according to Justin Weaver, meteorologist-in-charge of the National Weather Service in Lubbock. Sending out tornado warnings is something the NWS is careful about.
âWeâre very careful about issuing tornado warnings in the first tornado warning we issued for the city of Lubbock in nine years,â Weaver said.
There are two weather advisories that come from NWS, watches and warnings. Watches, according to Weaver, are when conditions are favorable for severe weather to happen. Warnings are issued when the threat of severe weather is high enough that the public needs to be warned about.
History Department named for Arnoldo De Leon, Robstown native with ties to Duval County
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Angelo State University’s Department of History has been officially re-named the Arnoldo De León Department of History in honor of the longtime ASU professor who is acknowledged as one of the nation’s preeminent scholars in the field of Mexican American history.
A 1970 ASU graduate, De León returned to his alma mater as a faculty member in 1973 and stayed until his retirement in 2015, teaching courses in American, Texas, Mexican American and Latin American history while re-shaping the perception of Hispanics in Texas history.