TCU In The News

Gina Jarman Hill, a professor of nutritional sciences at Texas Christian University, said there is a common misconception that cucumbers are “negative-calorie foods” — meaning they contain fewer calories than it takes to burn digesting them.

“We’re basically trying to prepare them for the unknown,” said Muriel Cormican, associate dean of undergraduate students at TCU's AddRan College of Liberal Arts.

Greg Collins, an assistant professor of professional practice of nurse anesthesia at Texas Christian University, said that, since the loan limits were finalized, he’s been concerned about the yearly limits especially.

"The species has pretty much disappeared entirely on the eastern side of the I-35 corridor," said Dean Williams, a Texas Christian University biologist, according to the San Antonio Report.

Whether intentional or not, these stores are tapping into the nostalgia associated with the traditional family road trip adventure by providing a stop that is more than just gas-and-go with questionable restrooms, says Tom Seng, professor of professional practice at Texas Christian University.

“The key is the Strait of Hormuz,” Tom Seng, a professor of energy finance at Texas Christian University, told ABC News. “There’s the perception that there are millions of barrels of crude sitting in tankers upstream of the strait."

Dr. David Shau, an orthopedic surgeon at Texas Health Joint Replacement Surgery Center and assistant professor at Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University, gets his speed work in by chasing around his daughter in the yard (when he’s not acting as her personal bench).

Wendy Macias, associate dean of undergraduate studies in the Schieffer College of Communication at TCU, is one of the creators of the ReFrog project.

“Every single day that this conflict continues with the Strait closed, the situation's just getting worse and worse and worse,” said Tom Seng, a professor of energy finance at Texas Christian University’s Neely School of Business.

Eric Wood is the director of Counseling & Mental Health at Texas Christian University. Unlike most schools, Dr. Wood told me that TCU’s campus therapy programs specifically ask about gambling behaviors as part of a new patient intake form.

Nikhil Bhayani, M.D., an assistant professor of internal medicine at the Burnett School of Medicine at Texas Christian University, told Newsweek that the WHO’s assessment that the public risk remains low is consistent with the broader scientific understanding of the virus.

Matthew Montgomery, assistant professor of American politics at Texas Christian University, said Paxton has a track record of pushing the boundaries of what people expect to hear from an elected official.

Charles Freeman enlisted design professor Albert Marichal and other students who developed 3D renderings of the Supply House, the portable structure used at the various venues. 

Tom Seng, an assistant professor of professional practice in energy finance at Texas Christian University.

While hantavirus cases have been previously reported in the U.S. − especially the four corners region of Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico − this strain doesn't cause human-to-human transmission, according to infectious disease expert and Texas Christian University professor Dr. Nikhil Bhayani.

“We need to resist this narrative that this disaster was unpreventable,” said Michael Slattery, director of the Institute for Environmental Studies at Texas Christian University. “The disaster is just shaped by policy choices made over what I thought were just years.” Instead, Slattery said, it was decades.