Fall 2024 - TCU Magazine

An Epic Comeback

Three decades ago, dedicated alumni led a drive to rebuild TCU’s left-behind athletics program.

Building a Brand

Sportscaster Newy Scruggs mixes charisma with business acumen in a thriving on-camera career.

Rhyme and Reason

As poet laureate and community college president, Richard Georges speaks for the Caribbean and helps shape its future leaders.

Art Is Everywhere

TCU’s campus features works from its 1,200-piece permanent collection. We turn the spotlight on a few of them.

Advocating for Youth

New major provides experience helping children in settings outside the classroom.

Features, Research + Discovery

The Music of Mexico

Laura Singletary’s deep dive into a high school’s mariachi program spurred the start of one at TCU.

A sketch of SuperFrog, dressed in what appears to be a purple TCU superhero suit and cape, taking a selfie in front of the Rose Bowl.

Mem’ries Sweet, Recollections

Recollections: Favorite Horned Frog Games

TCU faithful cite everything from the CFP semifinal win over Michigan to a 1981 upset of Arkansas.

Photograph of four researchers, clad in white coats, standing in front of a tan brick building.

Research + Discovery

Prescriptions for Chronic Inequities

TCU researchers seek to close gaps in health care access and outcomes for underserved people.

TCU wide receiver Savion Williams, wearing a purple Horned Frogs football jersey, flexes his left bicep as he points to it with his right index finger.

Sports: Riff Ram

Running It Back

Buoyed by experiences on and off the field, Savion Williams prepares for his final season at TCU.

Head coach Dennis Franchione kneels at center frame, with his left forearm resting on his left knee and his right hand on the top of a TCU football helmet. Franchione is pictured on a football field as he grins toward the camera on a sunny, cloudless day.

Features

The Vision to Win

Dennis Franchione details the highs and lows of his football coaching career in his new memoir.

Jessica Zeller, assistant professor of dance, is an expert on the art of teaching ballet. Photo by Joyce Marshall

Campus News: Alma Matters

Infographic: TCU’s Shared Values

The Board of Trustees adopted four TCU values after considering input from more than 4,000 constituents.

Dason Tucker, standing with his right hand in his jean pocket and his left arm leaning against a white Meals for the Elderly truck, smiles toward the camera.

Alumni

Nourishing Community

Dason Tucker’s team brings hot meals and fellowship to the homebound.

Animation of a person dressed in a jacket and tie with a suitcase in their right hand and a large gold key in their left hand. The figure holds the key over their head with their left hand. The figure stands on a set of blue stairs floating against a tan sky with two white clouds.

Features

Stepping Up

Our career expert discusses how to become a manager — and why some are choosing not to.

Photograph of President Daniel W. Pullin, SuperFrog, designer Trevor Scott ’22 and Chancellor Victor J. Boschni, Jr. holding up the TCU hand sign as they stand in front of Scott's TCU mural in downtown Fort Worth.

From the Chancellor

Fall is my favorite time of year because we welcome the newest class of Horned Frogs into our community.

A photograph of Angela Synek, director of advancement at the Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston. Synek, pictured in a pink garment with a black and white patterned scarf hanging from her neck, stands for a portrait photograph on the ground floor of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute Building in Houston, Texas.

Alumni, Features

Shining Light

Media maven Angie Synek raises funds and awareness for brain health.

Research + Discovery

Rattling the Supply Chain

Tyson Browning studies the unintended consequences of punitive economic actions.

Research + Discovery

Probing Into Probiotics

Elisa Marroquín says they help restore gut health after antibiotics.

Research + Discovery

Paging Through History

A project to catalog a Jewish collection at the TCU library uncovers a mystery in a medieval manuscript.

Research + Discovery

Woman as Guru

Antoinette DeNapoli is advancing the understanding of female empowerment in patriarchal religions.

Emeritus Trustee Ben J. Fortson, 1932-2024

The alumnus excelled over four decades in the oil industry. Then, he took his talents to the art world.

A photograph of TCU alum Erin Dianis, dressed in a purple TCU Horned Frogs t-shirt and jeans, seated in a purple arena chair. Dianis makes the TCU hand symbol with her left hand as she kicks her feet up in front of her.

Alumni

Erin Dianis: How It Started … How It’s Going

The Fulbright award winner has found inspiration in teaching overseas.

An Epic Comeback

Building a Brand

Rhyme and Reason

Art Is Everywhere

Advocating for Youth

In this issue: Fall 2024

The Music of Mexico

Recollections: Favorite Horned Frog Games

Prescriptions for Chronic Inequities

Running It Back

The Vision to Win

Infographic: TCU’s Shared Values

Nourishing Community

Stepping Up

From the Chancellor

Shining Light

Rattling the Supply Chain

Probing Into Probiotics

Paging Through History

Woman as Guru

Emeritus Trustee Ben J. Fortson, 1932-2024

Erin Dianis: How It Started … How It’s Going