Spring 2015 - TCU Magazine

A classroom (r)evolution

With multidisciplinary Rees-Jones Hall now open, students and professors have a new technology-rich, 21st century place to learn together.

Hidden Gems

Little-seen treasures from the TCU Permanent Art Collection made a public display on campus in February.

On the Front Lines

International disease detective Rebecca Coulborn tracks the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

An argument worth having

In 1935, TCU Forensics became the first all-white debate team from a university in the South to host historically black Wiley College on its campus.

Trauma care

Pre-Health Professions Institute students connect coursework to the real world as new emergency room interns.

Campus News: Alma Matters

Market with values

Students in the M.J. Neeley School of Business’ social entrepreneurship class design and market handmade jewelry to assist struggling women in Ethiopia.

Campus News: Alma Matters

More than budgets

Economic development scholar Dawn Elliott helps people in transition with financial literacy.

Alumni

The indomitable
Ann Louden

As TCU’s annual Frogs For The Cure turned 10 last fall, the effort’s driving force found new meaning in the cause.

Campus News: Alma Matters

Pardon my French

Modern Languages professor Joshua Blaylock links TCU with elite festival of films for academic discourse.

Sports: Riff Ram

First Person with …
Jill Kramer

Jill Pape Kramer ’00 was TCU volleyball’s first scholarship student-athlete. In December, she returned to TCU as Director of Volleyball.

Alumni

Down for whatever

Stand-up paddleboarding is among the nation’s hottest water sports, and Tyler Marshall ’10 wants you to get on board.

Alumni

John Giordano ’60 (MM ’63) has been a major player on the Fort Worth music scene for more than four decades, from conducting the symphony to serving as jury chairman of the Van Cliburn competition. This year, he retired from TCU.

Alumni, Web Extras

Your Own Words

If you could go back to college and pick a different major, what would it be? Why?

Author Ethan Casey - Beyond Ferguson. Race and Change in America

Research + Discovery

Ethan Casey – Race beyond Ferguson

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

Campus News: Alma Matters, Research + Discovery

Aminah McCloud – Islam in America

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

Campus News: Alma Matters

The American Perception of the Middle East

Freedom, safety and being heard are worldwide aspirations — including those involved in the Arab Spring, says foreign policy expert Dr. Shibley Telhami at 17^th annual Fogelson Honors Forum.

Alumni

50-year reunion in Mexico

Former student body president Galen Hull ’63 recalls a 1960s-era trip of self-discovery in Mexico with TCU friends — and returns a half-century later to find them again.

Alumni, Mem’ries Sweet, Personal Essay, Sports: Riff Ram

Boyhood memories of Jim Swink

Watching the Rusk Rambler started a lifelong love affair for all things TCU for one alum.

A classroom (r)evolution

Hidden Gems

On the Front Lines

An argument worth having

Trauma care