LUBBOCK
Lubbock County Seat • Texas Local
Incorporated on March 16, 1909
In 1867, the land that would become Lubbock was the heart of Comancheria, the shifting domain controlled by the Comanche. Lubbock has a large number of churches, including the downtown First Baptist congregation. Lubbock County was founded in 1876.
Lubbock was named after Thomas Saltus Lubbock, former Texas Ranger and brother of Francis Lubbock, governor of Texas during the Civil War. Lubbock is in the northwestern part of Texas, a region known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado, and ecologically is part of the southern end of the High Plains.
Lubbock’s nickname, “Hub City”, derives from it being the economic, educational, and health-care hub of the multicounty region. The area is the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world and is heavily dependent on water from the Ogallala Aquifer for irrigation.
Lubbock was home to Arati Prabhakar (born February 2, 1959). She grew up in Lubbock. In 1979, Dr. Prabhakar earned a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
Dr. Prabhakar earned a Master of Science in electrical engineering in 1980 and a PhD in applied physics in 1984, both from the California Institute of Technology. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in applied physics from Caltech.
Dr. Arati Prabhakar, as an American engineer, she was the former head of DARPA, the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a position she held from July 30, 2012 to January 20, 2017. She is a founder and the CEO of Actuate, a nonprofit organization.
On June 21, 2022, President Biden announced his nomination of Dr. Arati Prabhakar to serve as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), to serve as the chief science advisor to President Biden.
In this capacity, Dr. Prabhakar will be the President’s Chief Advisor for Science and Technology, a co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and a member of the President’s Cabinet.
If confirmed to lead OSTP, Dr. Prabhakar would become the third Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander to serve in President Biden’s Cabinet, joining Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai. Her nomination is historic, with Prabhakar being the first woman, immigrant, or person of color nominated to serve as Senate-confirmed director of OSTP.
Lubbock, local residents, and local businesses are rolling out the “Welcome to Lubbock” and the genuine “You’re Welcome Here!” Lubbock welcome mats to visitors, local entrepreneurs, new startups, online sales, business founders, new residents, new contributors, and more value-added local businesses.
Lubbock encourages its residents to become inventors and creators of startups in retail, music, beauty, healthcare, legal services, news, media services, information technology (IT), and education technology in support of Lubbock’s local business ecosystem.
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