Eli Heath
STUDENT REGENT
Eli Heath was appointed as Student Regent for the Board of Regents of the Texas Tech University System (TTU System) on May 30, 2025, by Gov. Greg Abbott. Heath’s one-year term began on June 1 and will expire on May 31, 2026.
Heath is an undergraduate in the Honors College at Texas Tech University (TTU). He is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Edward E. Whitacre College of Engineering (Whitacre College of Engineering), with minors in bioengineering, biology and chemistry.
Heath is a National Merit Scholar and a graduate of Flower Mound High School in Flower Mound, Texas. He is currently completing a summer internship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Heath serves as a student body senator for the TTU Student Government Association and is a member of the Student Board of Directors for the TTU System Health Policy and Public Health Think Tank at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC). He is an outreach coordinator for the Raider Medical Screening Society. Additionally, Heath is a research intern in the lab of Sharilyn Almodovar, Ph.D., in the Department of Immunology and Molecular Microbiology at TTUHSC, and he serves as a project lead for research under Duke Appiah, Ph.D., MPH, in the university’s Department of Public Health.
Heath has earned multiple awards and scholarships at TTU, including the Undergraduate Outstanding Performance Award from the College of Arts & Sciences and the James E. Sowell Endowed Engineering Scholarship from the Whitacre College of Engineering. He was also recognized among the Top Ten First-Year Students by TTU’s Mortar Board Forum Chapter and has been recognized four times on the President’s List.
His collaborative research on the effects of human immunodeficiency virus, funded by the National Institutes of Health, has been featured at the 2024 Annual Student Conference and the annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, as well as at the 2024 and 2025 Research Symposiums hosted by TTU’s Center for Transformative Undergraduate Experiences.
Heath is actively involved in service for TTU and the community. He is an Honors College Ambassador, vice president of programming for the Complex Council Executive Board for University Student Housing, a volunteer health unit assistant at University Medical Center and a volunteer mentor with the Bayless Elementary Mentoring Program.
He is the 20th student to serve on the Board of Regents and the seventh student from TTU to hold the position.