Williams at UTPB

Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams joined about 40 area business leaders, faculty and students for the biannual University of Texas of the Permian Basin School of Business Advisory Council meeting Tuesday on campus.

Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams toured the new mechanical engineering computer lab at UTPB’s CEED Building. Pictured from left to right are: Forrest Flocker, UTPB associate professor of engineering, Commissioner Williams, Ramiro Bravo, associate professor of engineering, and Bob Trentham, geologist and director of the Center for Energy and Economic Diversification.

UTPB President David Watts, right, escorted District 60 Rep. Jim Keffer of Eastland around campus Tuesday. The legislator is chairman of the House Committee on Energy Resources and also serves on the business and industry committee, the calendars committee and the redistricting committee. Keffer was first elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1996 and is president of an iron foundry.