Campus News: Alma Matters

Summer 2008

New deans take over in business, communication

Owen Homer Erekson ’74 and David Whillock have long ties to TCU.

Summer 2008

Cooking up a final exam

Grads-to-be gobble up Gourmet Foods nutrition course.

Summer 2008

Race, age, politics and purple socks

John McCain’s age — not Barack Obama’s race or Hillary Clinton’s gender — will be the key factor in the presidential race by November, especially when the public and media compare McCain’s vigor (or lack of) versus Obama’s relative inexperience. That debate will largely frame November’s presidential campaign said three veteran journalists who joined a purple sock-wearing

Summer 2008

Faculty, alumni panel dissect Election 2008

Alumni Association hosts traveling lecture series in Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth.

Summer 2008

Commons to be complete in August

The green space is designed to create an environment rich in personal interaction where intellectual vitality and social engagement intersect.

Summer 2008

College of Education gets new statue

“Teaching to change the world” erected outside the Bailey Building.

Summer 2008

Must-see TV

Advertising creative team wins first place in national competition.

Summer 2008

Tomes: Summer 2008

The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal Renee Peterson Trudeau ’88 Balanced Living Press Trudeau, an Austin-based writer and life coach, became a mother in 2002 and in her new book she writes how she discovered “a startling and disturbing truth about mothers everywhere – how little we cared for ourselves, especially in relation to how much

Summer 2008

Horned Frogs toot their horns in the Magic Kingdom

Four TCU music students have answered the call to be part of the Disneyland All-American College All Star Band.

Summer 2008

What makes science “science?”

Turns out a lot of our middle- and secondary-school science teachers aren’t really sure.