Q&A with … Edwidge Danticat
Author of Common Reading text discusses global citizenship and interconnectedness.
Campus News: Alma Matters | Topics: Campus news,Q&A
Rising in the East . . . Q&A with Manochehr Dorraj and Carrie Liu Currier
In a Q & A with The TCU Magazine, political science professors Manochehr Dorraj and Carrie Liu Currier examine China’s growing influence in world’s energy markets.
Campus News: Alma Matters | Topics: AddRan College of Liberal Arts,Q&A
Q&A with … Angie Ravaioli-Larkin, women’s golf
Women’s golf coach is the third-longest tenured coach at TCU and discussed what’s kept her squads going back to the NCAAs year after year. 2013 is the 18th year in a row.
Sports: Riff Ram | Topics: Q&A
Q & A with author Nicholas Carr
Pulitzer Prize finalist Nicholas Carr says today’s constant bombardment of information both helps and hurts the human mind. The Internet especially builds new strengths in visual-spatial intelligence, but it weakens people’s ability for mindful knowledge acquisition, critical thinking and imagination. Carr’s book The Shallows was selected as the Common Reading text this fall, and the
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Q&A with … O. Homer Erekson ’74
TCU offered courses in accounting, business administration, finance, insurance, secretarial sciences and transportation utilities as early as 1884, but it wasn’t until 1938 that the university boasted of a school of business. In August 2013, TCU’s Neeley School of Business will turn 75, but that hasn’t stopped dean O. Homer Erekson ’74 from touting the
Q&A with … Chancellor Victor J. Boschini
The chancellor discusses his appointment to the board of the American Council on Education and what it means for TCU.
First Person: Swim Coach Richard Sybesma
Completing his 30th year at TCU, swimming coach Richard Sybesma brings enthusiasm and a passion
to a program he’s built over the decades. But this year and this squad, might just be his best one yet.
Sports: Riff Ram | Topics: Athletics,Q&A
5 questions with Terry Hartle
Top Washington lobbyist for higher education says universities in for tough times with down economy, but TCU better than most.
First Person: author Dan Jenkins ’53
Our resident sports nut and historian Dan Jenkins ‘53 remembers 1938 better than last week’s fried chicken. That title year – and a lot more – is all in his new TCU Football Vault, which he essentially wrote for free.
Sports: Riff Ram | Topics: Q&A
5 Questions with … Turk Pipkin
When he came up short to questions his young daughters were asking about our world, actor/director/author Turk Pipkin turned to rocket scientist Sir Joseph Rotblat and eight other Nobel Laureates, then made a movie of their conversations.
Campus News: Alma Matters | Topics: Q&A