TTUHSC Happenings

Feb. 3

Global Health Lecture featuring Annette Sobel, M.D.: Emerging Challenges in Global Health Security

Noon

Academic Classroom Building 110

For more information, contact globalhealth@ttuhsc.edu.

Feb. 5

Play it Forward by MusiCare

7 p.m.

Legacy Event Center, 1500 14th St.

For more information, email, cj.murillo@ttuhsc.edu.

Feb. 5

Lunar New Year

11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Academic Classroom Building first floor lobby

Lunch will be served.

For more information, contact globalhealth@ttuhsc.edu.

Feb. 6

Learn the Texas Two Step and Save a Life

Emergency Medicine Club and Texas College of Emergency Physicians

10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Three locations: Market Street at 98th and Quaker, Market Street at 19th and Quaker, and Texas Tech University Student Union Building

The Texas Two Step, a 20 minute hands-on training session in hands-only CPR, will teach participants how to act quickly to save a life by taking two steps.

For more information, email lisa.varghese@ttuhsc.edu.

Feb. 10 and 11

Student Government Association Bake Sale

11 a.m. to noon

AB elevators by cafeteria

All proceeds benefit scholarships.

Feb. 11

Global Perspectives Film Series featuring “More Than a Month”

Noon

Academic Classroom Building 240

For more information, contact globalhealth@ttuhsc.edu.

 

Feb. 19

TTUHSC Ring Ceremony

5:30 p.m.

Legacy Event Center, 1500 14th Street

For more information, contact Deidra Satterwhite at (806) 743-6438 ordeidra.satterwhite@ttuhsc.edu.

 

Feb. 19

TTUHSC Graduation Dinner

For all TTUHSC 2016 graduating students

7 p.m.

Overton Hotel and Conference Center, 2322 Mac Davis Lane

Feb. 24

The Free Clinic Immunization Day

3 to 5:30 p.m.

Lubbock Impact 2707 34th St.

For more information, call (806) 799-4320.

Feb. 29

Texas Tech Physicians and School of Medicine Surgery Leadership Transition Reception: John Griswold, M.D., and Sharmila Dissanaike, M.D.

4 to 5 p.m.

Remarks at 4:15 p.m.

Academic Classroom Building first floor lobby

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