Boyhood memories of Jim Swink
Watching the Rusk Rambler started a lifelong love affair for all things TCU for one alum.
Alumni, Mem’ries Sweet, Personal Essay, Sports: Riff Ram | Topics: Athletics
Find the Frog
Use the hashtag #FoundTheFrog to tell us when you located the hidden frog on the magazine cover.
From the chancellor: Fostering innovation
In a March 2015 article about higher education innovation, Fast Company magazine featured our Rees-Jones Hall, describing it as “an incubator facility designed to maximize social and intellectual connectivity.”
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The writing
on the wall
WHEN BUILDING PLANNERS were sketching concepts for Rees-Jones Hall, an early idea was to have writable surfaces everywhere. The thinking went: The more places students and teachers have to draw and doodle, the more learning will occur. But that’s not all that happened. With writable wall paint and dry-erase wallpaper in the hallways, classrooms and
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The classroom (r)evolution
Active learning has been in place at TCU for years. But with multidisciplinary Rees-Jones Hall now open, students and professors have a new technology-rich, 21st century place to learn together.
Features | Topics: John V. Roach Honors College
Letters from our readers
It was fun to read the comments about rubbing the Horned Frog’s nose. Spreading cheerful fun with my creation since 1984 warms my heart. Seppo Aarnos TCU parent and sculptor of TCU Horned Frog Praise for Ralph Carter VERY well deserved! Dr. Carter is one of the best lecturers I’ve ever heard. John Bennett Missing Richard
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Find the Frog
We hid a horned frog on the cover of our last issue, and there’s one hidden on this issue, too—but it’s a little different this time.
Faculty Q & A: Michael Chumley
At the 142nd Convocation in September, the associate professor of biology received the Wassenich Award for Mentoring in the TCU community.
Hidden Gems
Little-seen treasures from the TCU Permanent Art Collection made a public display on campus in February.
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