In this issue: Spring 2019
Alumni, Features
Making a Difference Through Medical Nonprofits
Four alumni physicians have a heart for healing and work to make the world a better place — one patient at a time.
Alumni, Features
Asylum-Seekers Find Solace in DASH Network
The Dallas-Fort Worth nonprofit provides housing as well as support and friendship for people fleeing persecution.
Alumni, Features
Co-Founder of Calloway’s Nursery Thrives on Service
Jim Estill cultivates a life of hard work and lends his business expertise even in retirement.
Alumni, Campus News: Alma Matters
Zoranna Taylor Jones ’98 (MS ’07) is a Mentor at Harris College
The director of the Harris Academic Resource Center discusses TCU’s STEM Scholar program and the importance of helping students succeed.
Campus News: Alma Matters, Research + Discovery
How is Research Funded?
External funding and internal grants contribute millions of dollars toward research at TCU.
Alumni, Web Extras
TCU Magazine Podcast: Dr. J Mack Slaughter
Dr. J Mack Slaughter ’09 talks about what led him to launch a nonprofit that brings music to chronically ill children.
Alumni, Letters
Chancellor Celebrates Renovated Dee J. Kelly Alumni & Visitors Center
The reimagined facility connects our past, our future and one another.
Campus News: Alma Matters
Show Your Syllabus: Corporate Identity
Students combine creativity with market standards as they learn methods and practices for designing a consistent visual brand for a company.
Research + Discovery
Community Support Helps Families Rise to a Challenge
Assistant professor Aesha John researches the understanding, impact and resources of parents with an intellectually disabled child.
Research + Discovery
New Biochemical Research can Protect Against Poison or Biological Threats
Professor Onofrio Annunziata focuses on dendrimers that can make the proteins they attach to tougher and less susceptible to deterioration inside the body.
Research + Discovery, Web Extras
TCU Magazine Podcast: Avoiding Problem Behavior in School with a New Strategy
Two assistant professors discuss effective strategies for parents and teachers to work together to best support the student.
Research + Discovery
Staying Young and Present Through Dance
Dance professor Susan Douglas Roberts explores liveliness and defining virtuosity as a performer.
Research + Discovery
Parent-Teacher Relationships Can Support Positive Behavior in Students
Kathleen Strickland-Cohen and Kathleen Kyzar want to foster partnerships while problem behavior is mild or moderate.
Alumni, Sports: Riff Ram
First Person With … Jared Janczak
The pitcher focuses on getting healthy and finishing his redshirt senior season before heading for the Major League.
Alumni
New Associate Vice Chancellor for Alumni Relations Talks About TCU’s Growth
Amanda Stallings ’97 (MLA ’01) discusses the Dee J. Kelly Alumni & Visitors Center renovation and meeting people where they are.
Alumni, Campus News: Alma Matters, Features
Dee J. Kelly Alumni & Visitors Center Is Ready
The center is now two times bigger and better.
Alumni
Acclaimed Sports Writer Dan Jenkins, 1928-2019
In his eight-decade career, Jenkins wrote 24 books and hundreds of articles for Sports Illustrated and Golf Digest.
Campus News: Alma Matters
Emeritus Trustee Ann McArron Jones, 1935-2019
Her role on the board combined her passions for athletics and education.
Campus News: Alma Matters
College of Fine Arts Dean Scott A. Sullivan, 1947-2019
Sullivan had a passion for art history and always looked for new sources of knowledge.
Campus News: Alma Matters
Emeritus Trustee Bob Wright, 1927-2019
The Medical City Dallas founder was a man of vision and analytical skills, both as a successful developer and a university board member.