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Friday, April 3rd, 2009

What It Feels Like... To Catch Bats in the Jungles of Malaysia

Biology professor Tigga Kingston leads a pilot learning project where elementary students participate via internet with her bat research in Malaysia.

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

What It Feels Like...To Give Texas Tech its Morning Buzz

Lucy Fowler helped open the Barnes and Noble café in the Student Union Building five years ago and has been managing it ever since.

Friday, January 30th, 2009

What It Feels Like... To Make the Wheels on Texas Tech Buses Go Round

Mannette Breckenridge has driven a Citibus route on campus for nearly two years.

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

What it Feels Like... To Recruit Chess Players in Dresden Germany

Cory Chandler, a senior editor in the Office of Communications and Marketing, accompanied Susan Polgar and Paul Truong to the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany.

Friday, November 7th, 2008

What It Feels Like... to Perform in the Celtic Ensemble

Jillian Schmitt has participated in every Celtic Christmas and talks about what it’s like to learn new instruments, an entirely new way to play and … how to dance.

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

What It Feels Like... To Lead the Goin' Band from Raiderland

Drum Major Steve Novak discusses the intricacies of conducing a band through media timeouts and the pain of learning how to goose step.

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

What It Feels Like... To Get 50,000 Fans Screaming Go, Tech, Go

Every football game, they’re out there on the field, as much a part of pregame ceremonies as the Goin’ Band, the Masked Rider and maybe the team itself.

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

What it Feels Like... To Keep Championship-Class Turf Putter Friendly

Since the Rawls Course is one of the most exacting courses in West Texas, it makes sense that it would also be one of the most difficult to maintain. Windburn, bad water … course superintendent Eric Johnson dishes on the difficulty in keeping one of the nation’s top courses putter friendly.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

What it Feels Like... To Shoot A 2x4 Through A Brick Wall

Shannon Hutchison, senior technician for Texas Tech University’s Debris Impact Facility, tests storm shelter products from across the nation using a cannon that fires 2×4’s at speeds up to 100 mph. He explains why a .44 Magnum’s got nothing on his wooden missiles.

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

What It Feels Like... To String 25,000 Holiday Lights

Red Raiders enjoy holiday lights each year thanks to the efforts of the Texas Tech Building Maintenance and Construction Section. For three years, Kyle Cooper has made sure all 25,000 lights are strung correctly and working properly. The mechanical superintendent at Texas Tech’s Physical Plant, Cooper oversees months of labor that go into putting Will Rogers in a ring of holiday fire and credits the skill and dedication of Electric Shop employees for making it happen.

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

What It Feels Like... To Create the Big Bang Behind Exploding Nanoparticles

Few professionals practice the motto, “Safety First,” more than Michelle Pantoya. But then again, few people have the job of detonating highly energetic materials in their workplace. This mechanical engineering professor observes reactions between energetic materials in her Texas Tech laboratory – sometimes with unpredictable results. While working with a unique sample of nanoparticles, Pantoya and her lab assistant, Emily Hunt, came across such a reaction.

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

What It Feels Like... To Ride Hell-Bent for Leather Across a Football Field For the First Time

As the 2007-08 Masked Rider, Kevin Burns leads the Red Raiders onto the football field during home games and celebrates touchdowns with a mad dash down the sidelines. He made his first run during Texas Tech’s first home game of the 2007 season against the University of Texas at El Paso.

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

What It Feels Like... To Work in the Zone of Alienation

Robert Baker, Horn professor of biology, is one of the world’s foremost experts on the repercussions of radioactive fallout on plants and animals near the Chernobyl disaster site. He first visited Chernobyl in 1994, eight years after a nuclear meltdown decimated an area that was once home to 120,000 people, and has visited more than 20 times since then.

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

What It Feels Like... To Serve and Protect the Texas Tech Community

It’s 7:30 p.m. We’re doing 65 mph down Texas Tech Parkway. On our way to an accident with possible injuries. Lights on the cruiser fling red and blue ahead, painting the night a roiling purple.

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

What It Feels Like... To Coach the Lady Raider Basketball Team

Game day is no time for sleeping in. It’s the day Coach Kristy Curry looks forward to the most. It begins around 6:20 a.m., when she gets her daughters ready for school. After that, the morning is much the same as any other. She spends a lot of time on recruiting and returning phone calls. Sending e-mails, writing personal notes, catching up on how her recruits’ teams faired. Grabs some lunch around noon and heads to the team’s shoot-around.

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