TCU In The News

Sarah Angle, faculty director of Roxo, a student-run PR agency at Texas Christian University, breaks down the marketing strategy behind the release of Taylor Swift’s newest album, Patient Zero.

In recent decades, as the United States became more focused on standardized test scores, recess has been sidelined in favor of more instructional time, notes Debbie Rhea, a professor in kinesiology at Texas Christian University and director of the LiiNK project, a researched-based intervention for schools characterized by four 15-minute recess breaks and a character development lesson daily.

TCU Chancellor Daniel Pullin described this year’s ranking as an “important measure" of the school's "accelerated momentum as a leading national university and our resolute focus on student success. Demand for a TCU education has never been stronger,” he said in a statement.

There are so many different crude oils and prices — WTI, Brent, OPEC, Mexican, Indian. “There’s OPEC selling price, you’ve got Mexico, Indian…” according to Tom Seng, a professor of energy finance at Texas Christian University. There’s even a crude price called Mars. “Mars is actually an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico,” Seng explains.

The Starpoint School at Texas Christian University serves children with learning differences such as dyslexia, dysgraphia and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. The ability to meet each student’s needs through small class sizes, small-group intervention and evidence-based reading instruction are the components driving student success, said Interim Executive Director Jan Lacina.

“Based on the current legislation, the operators can keep these inactive for almost indefinitely,” said Nikki Morris, a geologist and executive director of the Ralph Lowe Institute of Energy at Texas Christian University. “There’s a lot of wiggle room.”

Elizabeth Plummer, Ph.D., C.P.A., professor at Texas Christian University’s Neeley School of Business, and Bill Wempe, Ph.D., professor and associate dean at Texas Christian University’s Neeley School of Business, argue that In the new era of revenue sharing, colleges should make a meaningful financial literacy course mandatory for athletes.

Crude oil traffic through the key Strait of Hormuz has plunged, and Iran has refused to reopen the waterway. “Everything points to the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz,” said Tom Seng, a professor of energy finance at Texas Christian University.

Researchers at Texas Christian University are working to solve this problem by investigating how a new, AI-based technology can be used to support bilingual children with developmental language disorders.

The question, said Craig Crossland, dean of Texas Christian University’s Neeley School of Business, is whether Musk’s vision and unique capabilities have been “institutionalized” among those deputies. “I don’t think we’ve had the opportunity to see that,” Crossland said

“You’re going to do everything you can to keep that refinery running,” said Tom Seng, a professor of energy finance at Texas Christian University. “We’re not talking band-aids. You’re going to do the required maintenance at a minimum.”

Because it is used to report holdings like crypto coins in financial filings, fair value will be central to many of FASB’s discussions, said Karen Nelson, a professor of accounting at Texas Christian University.

"Overall, students who live on campus tend to use more resources that campus has to offer," says Kathryn Cavins-Tull, vice chancellor for student affairs at Texas Christian University. "Increasingly, students and families understand there's a value proposition," says Craig Allen, executive director for housing and residential life and fraternity and sorority life at Texas Christian University.

Written by Chancellor Daniel W. Pullin. For the first time the Horned Frogs football team will take an international field as the home team in Dublin, Ireland, meeting the University of North Carolina in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic. This is a significant milestone for our team, our university, our city and our state.

A few grams a year, of course, are not nothing. "Because sponges are used frequently and undergo repeated abrasion, even relatively small releases can add up across millions of households," says Don Thushara Galbadage, associate professor at the Harris College of Health Sciences & Public Health at Texas Christian University.

Reuben F. Burch V, Texas Christian University’s vice provost for research, has earned the designation of “Prolific Inventor” with the issuance of his 50th patent.