Texas Tech System Chancellor Creighton provided insight into the future of the system. From enrollment and athletics to research funding, here's what he focused on.

The unsung heroes of the lab and lecture hall have laid the groundwork for some of the most transformative technologies of our time. A few make celebrity status as Nobel prize winners, but the glory of most academics is poorly understood for its formative early impact on products now essential to our lives—civic, commercial, and medical.