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Steve Przymus, Assistant Professor of Bilingual/ESL at TCU, talks with Viro Ortiz, a former TCU student, about using video games to develop community for transnational children.

Spring 2020

Strategy for Multiplayer Online Games: Keeping Bilingual Students in School

Steve Przymus says video games develop community for transnational children and prevent dropouts.

Tracy Centanni, assistant professor of psychology (CSE) uses neural imaging to study dyslexia. Her goal is to develop a school-based early identification and intervention program to treat dyslexia before young students learn to read. Friday, January 10, 2020. Photo by Joyce Marshall

Spring 2020

Seeking Strategies to Help Children With Dyslexia

Tracy Centanni hopes her research leads struggling readers to success.

Nina Martin, associate professor of dance, performing her piece, Secondary Surface Rendered, which has been done with dancers of mixed ability. The work, done on white paper with charcoal, has been done with performers with cerebral palsy. This was done at the Erma Lowe Hall on the TCU Campus.

Spring 2020

Dance Leads to Therapeutic Potential

Nina Martin’s ReWire technique offers people with cerebral palsy some relief from their symptoms.

TCU associate professor of communication studies Adam Richards, who studies peoples' varied responses to interpersonal conflict, poses for a portrait, Monday, August 13, 2018 in the J.M. Moudy Building on the TCU campus in Fort Worth, Texas.

Spring 2020

Fighting Can Help or Hurt Relationships

Adam Richards finds that ongoing conflicts cut deep, while fighting ‘right’ can strengthen relationships.

Alex Hidalgo, assistant professor of history in TCU's AddRan College of Liberal Arts. Shown: Hidalgo examines materials in his favorite place on campus, the Special Collections reading room on the third floor of the Mary Couts Burnett Library. Photo by Joyce Marshall, April 5, 2019

Spring 2020

Tracing Colonial Mexico with Maps and Ink

Alex Hidalgo re-creates the colonial experience in Latin America with mapmaking, astronomy and a scriptorium by candlelight.

Liu’s economic model explains how people respond to a 10-cent increase in gasoline taxes: STATES WHERE DRIVERS WILL RESPOND THE MOST: Utah (a little more than 2% reduction in gasoline consumption) Iowa Delaware Maine North Dakota STATES WHERE GAS CONSUMPTION WON’T CHANGE MUCH AT ALL: OTHER FACTORS INFLUENCING HOW PEOPLE RESPOND TO CHANGES IN GASOLINE PRICE: AVERAGE GASOLINE TAXES IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD (PER GALLON): Netherlands .........$3.36 Israel....................$3.17 Japan....................$1.91 Chile....................$1.69 Australia ..............$1.17 United States........$0.56

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Would Increasing Gasoline Tax Help Reduce Climate Change?

Weiwei Liu says that for higher gasoline taxes to be an effective method of curbing climate change, they need to be customized by region and even individual.

Sharon Canclini and Gina Alexander pose with a graphic about water use in Rees-Jones Hall. A recent paper they co-authored explored ways to simulate the health care response to an outbreak of waterborne disease.

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Stopping a Disease Outbreak in its Tracks

TCU nursing students are learning to become medical detectives.

Dr. Zachary Hall, Assistant Professor of Marketing, poses outside the Steve and Sarah Smith Entrepreneurs Hall at the Neely School of Business at TCU.

Latest News

How to Be a Better Salesperson

Zachary Hall says the magic is in perceiving customers’ needs.

Professor Kara Dixon Vuic helps the world understand. Swanee Hunt ’72 helps the world recover.

Winter 2020

Women in Peace and War

Professor Kara Dixon Vuic helps the world understand. Swanee Hunt ’72 helps the world recover.

Latest News

Scientists See Medical Breakthroughs From Fluorescence

A new book shines a light on technology that can diagnose concussions faster.

Research + Discovery

Strategy for Multiplayer Online Games: Keeping Bilingual Students in School

Seeking Strategies to Help Children With Dyslexia

Dance Leads to Therapeutic Potential

Fighting Can Help or Hurt Relationships

Tracing Colonial Mexico with Maps and Ink

Would Increasing Gasoline Tax Help Reduce Climate Change?

Stopping a Disease Outbreak in its Tracks

How to Be a Better Salesperson

Women in Peace and War

Scientists See Medical Breakthroughs From Fluorescence

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