Inside Texas Tech: Presidential Lecture & Performance Series

There will something for most everyone in the upcoming 13th season of Texas Tech’s Presidential Lecture and Performance Series. The lineup has music, contemporary dance, some comical Shakespeare and a discussion of possible solutions to climate change. Jo Moore, director of the series, says this year’s opening event on Friday, Oct. 12, features world-renowned climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, a professor at Texas Tech who leads the university’s Climate Science Center. She’ll moderate the panel that will have experts in conventional energy, free market advocacy and policy, and clean energy. “We’ve had conversations on stage, but yes, it is the first that we’ve had a panel,” Moore says. “My interests in our opener for this season, was not so much initially to have a panel discussion, but I wanted to feature Katharine Hayhoe. You know, often times people don’t know the famous people we have in our own backyard. And she is such a renowned, acclaimed, climate scientist no matter what side