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Honors Undergraduate Researcher Aims to Help Children with Learning Disabilities
Andrea Salazar is an international student from Nicaragua and a scholar in the John V. Roach Honors College, Salazar is a senior majoring in speech-language pathology in the Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences and minoring in child development, a cross-discipline minor housed in the College of Science & Engineering. A recipient of an Honors Undergraduate Research Grant, she is exploring effective interventions for bilingual students with learning disabilities.
Beata Jones Named to National Collegiate Honors Council Board of Directors
Texas Christian University will be represented nationally in honors education with the appointment of Beata M. Jones, Ph.D., professor of Business Information Systems Practice, Neeley Distinguished Teacher, Honors Faculty Partner and Graduate eLearning Fellow, to the National Collegiate Honors Council Board of Directors.
Gooding to Appear in Museum Lecture Series
Frederick Gooding Jr., the Dr. Ronald E. Moore Honors Professor of Humanities in the John V. Roach Honors College, will be featured in the spring lecture series at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. Gooding is the chair of TCU’s Race & Reconciliation Initiative and will address the topic “Navigating the Road to Reconciliation” at his lecture.
New Honors Course Challenges Students to "Read" City
A brand-new Honors Colloquium, “City as Text: Fort Worth,” doesn’t require any physical or digital textbooks. Instead, Honors professors Wendy Williams and Frederick Gooding, Jr., who teach separate sections of the course, encourage their students to “read” the city of Fort Worth to understand it as they would any useful textbook.
Honors Professor Dan Williams Publishes New Book of Poetry
Lamar University Literary Press recently announced the publication of Dan Williams’ newest book of poetry.
Honors Professor, Mikio Akagi, Receives Teaching Excellence Award at Convocation
Honors assistant professor of the history and philosophy of science, Dr. Mikio Akagi, received the Maryrose Short Teaching Excellence Award.
Dr. Frederick W. Gooding, Jr., named inaugural holder of the Dr. Ronald E. Moore Professorship in Humanities in the John V. Roach Honors College
Chancellor Victor J. Boschini, Jr., on behalf of the Board of Trustees of Texas Christian University, is pleased to announce the Dr. Ronald E. Moore Professorship in Humanities in the Honors College at TCU has been awarded to Dr. Frederick W. Gooding, Jr., associate professor of African American studies in the John V. Roach Honors College.
Honors Students Help Secure $50,000 in Funding for Nonprofit at National Conference
TCU Honors seniors, Meg Wilhorn and Jack Sewell, hold the $50,000 check they secured for the Communities in Schools (CIS), the nonprofit they advocated for at The Philanthropy Lab national conference in June.
Dr. Andrew Ryder named Visiting Lecturer for the 2021-22 academic year
Dr. Andrew Ryder has accepted the position of Visiting Lecturer in the John V. Roach Honors College for the 2021-22 academic year.
Honors alumna, Makenna Barbara, receives $5,000 award for research paper
Honors alumna Makenna Barbara ‘19 has been awarded the 2021 Charles H. Dow Award by the Chartered Market Technician (CMT) Association for her paper, The Efficacy of Modified Momentum Based Technical Indicators on U.S. Equities: A Study of Parabolic SAR.