From the drought and the supply chain to monkeypox and inflation, TCU faculty and alumni are in the news.
INSTITUTIONAL
The Real Reason You're Craving Fried Food
Aug. 16, 2022
Health Digest
Food cravings are often due to stress, vitamin deficiencies or sleep deprivation.
Surprisingly, individuals with higher-than-average zinc intakes are more likely to
crave fried food, suggests a 2016 study conducted at Texas Christian University. This mineral plays a key role in protein synthesis, immune function and other biochemical
processes.
Arnie Gachman: A Civic Treasure
Aug. 2, 2022
Texas Jewish Post
Texas Jewish Post published a story about Arnie Gachman, a founding donor of the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU. “Arnie became a student
and a scholar of our school and what we are doing right from the beginning,” Dr. Stuart D. Flynn, founding dean of the Burnett School of Medicine, said. “His contributions are immensely
valuable.”
FACULTY
The relationship between YouTubers and police can be friendly or adversarial
Aug. 16, 2022
Business Insider
Crowdsourced crime-solving is hardly new – think the FBI’s Most Wanted List and missing
children on milk cartons. But what social media has enabled is a kind of interactivity
that law enforcement doesn’t always condone, said Johnny Nhan, associate dean of graduate studies and professor of criminology and criminal justice.
“Most police officers, sworn law enforcement, say, ‘We only want them to report stuff
to us,’” he said. “We will not share information in a two-way street for them to go
back out and do something active to be an agent of this department or this agency.”
CareDx and the Transplant Games celebrate life for the organ donation community
Aug. 16, 2022
FiercePharma
The Transplant Games of America are a chance for all those in the organ transplant
community — recipients, those waiting for organs, donors, caregivers, etc.— to get
together and celebrate life via sport. Addressing the racial disparities within the
transplant area, a virtual panel discussion, “Tackling Health Equity in Organ Transplantation,”
will be moderated by the TCU Burnett School of Medicine’s Dr. Velma Scantlebury, America’s first Black female transplant surgeon.
MSNBC - Morning Joe
Aug. 15, 2022
MSNBC
TCU adjunct criminal justice faculty member Tracy Walder said FBI and DHS threats spiked after the Trump search. “Yes, the president does
have sweeping ability to declassify documents, but there is sort of a process for
that. Typically, the request is made in writing by members of the White House Council,
and that declassification is usually done in conjunction with agencies that have equities in those documents. And once it has been declassified, it's always stamped with the
date that it has been declassified,” Walder said.
KRLD Radio interviews James Riddlesperger
Aug. 15, 2022
KRLD
James Riddlesperger, TCU political science professor, addressed Gov. Greg Abbott’s 17-point lead earlier
this year that has now moved to single digits. “There are several things that are
going on. The closer you get to the election, the truer the picture of how people
really feel kind of emerges,” Riddlesperger said.
Black, white parents differ in perspectives on pediatric diabetes device use
Aug. 13, 2022
Healio
Multiple patient- and provider-driven barriers may contribute to racial disparities
in diabetes device use by children with Type 1 diabetes, according to a study. “Both
child and parent as well as provider and system factors may contribute to the racial
disparities that we see in diabetes device use,” said Carol Howe, the Paula R. & Ronald C. Parker Endowed Professor in Nursing at Harris College of
Nursing & Health Sciences at Texas Christian University.
CareDx and MOTTEP Co-Host Health Equity Summit
Aug. 11, 2022
The Bakersfield Californian
The Transplant Company will co-host a panel discussion, “Tackling Health Equity in
Organ Transplantation.” The panel discussion will be moderated by Dr. Velma Scantlebury, professor of surgery, Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU. The event will bring greater awareness of health disparities in organ transplantation
and discuss actionable solutions to address them.
The Better Roe
Aug. 11, 2022
historians.org
Kara Dixon Vuic, LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in 20th-Century
America, contributed an article about the 1970 case of Susan Struck, a woman who became
pregnant while serving in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. “She also resolved not to be
discharged, so she hid her pregnancy for as long as she could. She was about seven-and-a-half
months along when her hospital’s chief nurse confronted her. The following day, Struck
was on an airplane back to the United States, where she began a two-year legal battle
to remain in the military,” she wrote.
Cities Where Inflation is Growing the Most
Aug. 10, 2022
WalletHub
In 2022, Americans are dealing with the worst inflation in over 40 years, with the
year-over-year inflation rate at 9.1% in June. This explosive inflation is driven
by a variety of factors, including the continued presence of the COVID-19 pandemic,
the war in Ukraine and labor shortages. John T. Harvey, professor of economics at Texas Christian University, said, “We need to become drastically less dependent on fossil fuels anyway, so that
would be part of it. But any policies would have to be laser-focused on the real issues
and not based on naive 19th and 20th century models of the macroeconomy.”
High prices and shortages, welcome to the new normal
Aug. 9, 2022
Stuff.co.nz
Supply chain issues are one of the major driving forces behind the highest inflation
in 32 years. They are leading to goods that cost more and are in shorter supply than
they used to be. Travis Tokar, Texas Christian University supply chain management professor, told a U.S. audience
that “I’m a bit pessimistic that the worst of things are behind us in terms of shortages
and in terms of price increases.”
Drought Driving Texas Cattle Ranchers to Sell in Droves
Aug. 8, 2022
Dallas Express
Ongoing drought conditions have driven ranchers across Texas to sell their cattle
at rates unusually faster and higher than in previous years. Jim Link, interim director at Texas Christian University’s Ranch Management Program, said
these circumstances are a “snowballing effect” on cattle, one of Texas’s top five
agricultural products. “2011 was pretty tough, but it wasn’t as hot as this or as
long. We didn’t have the rain, but we didn’t have the 90 days of triple-digit weather,” Link said.
TCU Physician Sees Increase of Monkeypox Exposure in Patients
Aug. 7, 2022
NBC-DFW
As monkeypox cases spike and Dallas County declares a health emergency, it is surprising
even Dr. Nikhil Bhayani, assistant professor in the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at TCU. “This
is pretty rare, even training in med school, and when we’ve been in residency and
doing infectious disease fellowship training,” Bhayani said.
The PainWeek 2022 National Conference Presents the Advanced Practice Providers Track
Aug. 4, 2022
CISION
Advanced Practice Providers are making a difference in pain management. Recent articles
have asked, “can advanced practice providers be the answer to the nursing crisis?”
and noted that NPs and PAs are/will be 67.3% of the practitioners added to the workforce
between 2016 and 2030, outpacing physicians. “PAINWeek is the largest gathering of
pain clinicians from across the nation and provides an avenue for all disciplines
to come together to network and learn from one another,” said Jackie Rowles, director of the advanced pain management fellowship and associate professor of professional
practice in nurse anesthesia at TCU. “My lecture details the pathway, subspecialty
education and typical clinical practice day of a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
Pain Practitioner.”
The Great Resignation transforms into the Great Negotiation
Aug. 2, 2022
KPRC-TV (Houston, TX)
Because the economy has cooled and demand for labor has softened, employees no longer
hold the advantage, said Daniel Pullin, John V. Roach Dean of TCU Neeley School of Business. Pullin understands this changing dynamic and appeared on KPRC 2+ to offer his perspective.
“In just pure simple form, we had about 50 million workers quit their jobs during
the course of the pandemic, which is what gave great rise in resignation, but then
on the back end of that, just about half of that have come back into the workforce.
If you take that 50%, only about a third of that have returned to traditional jobs,” Pullin said.
ALUMNI
Know a Theatre: Amphibian Stage of Fort Worth, Texas
Aug. 9, 2022
American Theatre
Amphibian Stage has set itself apart with ambitious, experimental new works. In 2000, TCU alumna Kathleen Culebro ’01 co-founded Amphibian with a group of Texas Christian University alums and students.
“TCU generously allowed us to have full use of all their theatre spaces and equipment.
Without this, I doubt we would have ever been able to make it more than a couple of
years. We stayed for eight summers, completely rent-free, and were able to do the
quality work they had taught us to do because of these resources,” Culebro said.
Interview: Author Sandra Brown Talks Her New Novel Overkill
Aug. 9, 2022
Red Carpet Crash
Sandra Brown is the author of 73 New York Times bestsellers, including Outfox, Tailspin, Seeing Red, Sting, Mean Streak, Friction, Deadline and Rainwater. Writing professionally since 1981, Brown has published over 80 novels and has upwards
of 80 million copies of her books in print worldwide. Her work has been translated
into 34 languages. Brown holds an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Texas
Christian University, where she and her husband Michael Brown, have instituted the
ELF, a scholarship awarded annually.
How Fort Worth companies fund innovation through a federal grant program
Aug. 6, 2022
Fort Worth Report
Dylan Jones ’20 (MS ’22) is the founder and CEO of Animal Cloud, a company that is making an app to track
animal health. The business started at the Texas Christian University Entrepreneurship
and Innovation office, testing a technology licensing out of the U.S. Department of Defense that
could triage soldiers on the battlefield using Bluetooth sensors and stream it to
an Android device. Jones wrote a plan to commercialize the technology and apply it
to animal use cases. “It can be used by pet owners and for military purposes,” he
said.
ATHLETICS
Why Cowboys’ John Fassel has ‘huge aspirations’ for newly signed WR KaVonte Turpin
Aug. 3, 2022
The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Cowboys special teams coordinator kept up with KaVonte Turpin since 2018 and hopes he can exploit a role as a returner. John Fassel was ecstatic when the club signed Turpin shortly after camp started. “At TCU, I watched every single one of his returns,” Fassel
said. “He’s got a long way to go to compete, but I think this is a team that has a
potential role for him and I hope he exploits it.’’
Fast, furious pace sets tone at TCU first practice under coach Sonny Dykes
Aug. 2, 2022
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
If there was one word to describe TCU’s first practice of preseason camp, it would
be energetic. From the moment practice started, the Horned Frogs were in constant
motion. “I thought practice was okay. From an execution standpoint I thought it was
pretty good, I told the guys afterwards we didn’t have a single pre-snap penalty.
No offsides, no false starts. Sometimes day one is a fumble fest, we didn’t have any
of that,” Head Coach Sonny Dykes said.