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Texas Tech University in Lubbock made history last week with the nation’s first on-campus full-scale, fully operational oil rig.

Texas Tech is the home to many women in the STEM field, but the road has not always been easy for past and present women pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. “The math community that I entered is not the community that my mentors entered, and it’s not going to be the community that my protegees enter,” Raegan Higgins, an associate professor of mathematics and statistics at Tech who has both a master’s degree and a PhD in mathematics, said. Both the STEM educational and professional environments have been dominated by men for decades, but no...