Summer 2019 - TCU Magazine

Beyond the Classroom

A service-learning program connects students with community.

Finding Peace Through Dance

Godelieve Mukasarasi uses dance and shared experience to help women recover from trauma.

Rifle Team Hits the Target

The all-women team earned its third title in program history.

Terrorism Fears Spill onto Immigrants

A sociologist finds the unease affects U.S. views and laws.

TCU student Amanda Smiley practices reading with Emily Guzman at Mary Louise Phillips Elementary school in Fort Worth. Photo by Ross Hailey

Letters

Chancellor Says Service Learning Serves All

Students learn valuable life lessons when they bring their skills and energy to community projects.

Features

Service Learning Shapes Future Decision-Makers

A Q&A with Rosangela Boyd, director of community involvement and service learning

Members of the rifle team take their positions practice, including standing, kneeling and laying. Photo by Rodger Mallison

Features

Collegiate Rifle Rules and More

Learn the rifles, the time limits and scoring for NCAA teams.

Guangyan Chen said foreign-language teachers play a unique role in building global citizens with cultural competence. Photo by Jeffrey McWhorter

Research + Discovery

The Secret to Learning a Language

For Guangyan Chen, the absence of context means learning a language is just translating, not participating.

Elisa Bickers, principal organist and associate director of music ministry at Village Presbyterian Church, sits near the church's organ. Photo by Shane Keyser

Alumni, Features

Organist Elisa Bickers Knows Her Instrument

The musician played a key role in selecting the $2 million pipe organ for a Kansas church.

Chris Farley, assistant director of the Ranch Management Program and Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show Professor said his students need to know they're in an international Market. Photo by Glen E. Ellman

Campus News: Alma Matters

Ranch Management Students Learn Grazing Management and Ecosystem Servicing

John “Chris” Farley ’96 RM, assistant director of the Ranch Management Program and Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show professor, talks old ranches and new frontiers.

Alumni

Mateo Marquez Teaches Mindfulness and Respect Through Yoga

The alumnus’ latest project, PoserKids Yoga, came after failure and acceptance.

Alumni, Mem’ries Sweet

Black Alumni Alliance Celebrates Community

The affinity group provides a greater sense of belonging at TCU.

Dr. Terence McCarthy is the Dr. John M. Geesbreght Chair of Emergency Medicine at the TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine. Photo by Glen E. Ellman

Campus News: Alma Matters

Dr. Terence McCarthy Leads New Medical School’s Emergency Program

The doctor is the John M. Geesbreght MD, MS, FACEP Chair of Emergency Medicine — the first endowed chair position at the TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine.

Alumni

Veteran Angie Holbrook Is a Leader

The retired U.S. Army colonel helped shape a generation of leaders during her 27-year military career.

Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, has a passion for communication. Photo by Amy Peterson

Campus News: Alma Matters

Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg: The Torch Is In Her Hands

The new provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs is a first-generation college student and second-generation Lebanese American who recognized the value of ideas early in life.