Research + Discovery

Summer 2015

Spiders as Mercury Contaminators

Are spiders a missing link as toxic mercury moves from water onto land?

Summer 2015

Nine Questions of Undergraduate Research

From the dark web to poisonous spiders, undergraduates and their faculty mentors investigate big questions in a search for useful results.

Spring 2015

Ethan Casey – Race beyond Ferguson

Author turned road trip into book exploring race and change in the U.S.

Spring 2015

Aminah McCloud – Islam in America

Green Chair lecturer bridges the wisdom of the founding fathers and 21st Century Islam

Spring 2014

Hands-on research for kinesiology students

Graduate and undergraduate students are studying the relationship between how we eat and hormones that affect appetite and what we eat and hormones that control blood glucose.

Spring 2014

Time to eat

TCU researchers study how eating speed affects calorie consumption.

Spring 2014

Nutrition students teach culinary medicine

Nutritional sciences students teach medical students recipes for better health.

Fall 2013

Learning through play

Kinesiology Professor Debbie Rhea launches pilot program to improve education with more playtime.

Fall 2013

Learning through play at recess aids education

Kinesiology Professor Debbie Rhea launches pilot program to improve education with more playtime.

Spring 2013

Ten years of TCU research

Horned Frog biologists Matt Chumchal ’03 MS and Ray Drenner, and five of their graduate students, have produced 19 scholarly papers and 93 scholarly presentations.