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INSTITUTIONAL

TCU hires new vice chancellor to manage finances
Nov. 3, 2021
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Texas Christian University has completed its search for a new vice chancellor of finance and administration, according to a news release from the university. William Nunez, who has more than 30 years of experience in financial, administrative, budgeting, facilities and educational leadership, has accepted an offer from TCU to fill the position. TCU started a national search to fill the position that will be left open by Brian Gutierrez, who will be retiring after 16 years in January.

Third Annual Nursing Education Impact Awards Winners Named
Nov. 2, 2021
Yahoo Finance
Southern Utah University, Texas Christian University and the University of South Florida were recognized by Macmillan Learning for commitment to improving nursing education. Nursing education programs flourished despite pandemic-related challenges. TCU’s nursing program implemented several initiatives driven by student feedback, including a connection culture student mentoring program, a health and wellness initiative to support self-care habits and high-touch weekly interactions by faculty with students who are struggling academically.

FACULTY

TX Rep. Jake Ellzey bill would increase VA transparency
Nov. 12, 2021
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Rep. Jake Ellzey has sponsored bill to increase a Veterans Affairs program’s transparency. April Brown is the director of veterans services at TCU, which has had discussions to bring a Veterans Integration to Academic Leadership counselor on campus, but the pandemic upended those plans. “Every student is different, but I would say for this population, the veterans, particularly, are balancing work, family responsibilities,” Brown said. “They may have been out of school for a while. And so if they’ve not had a math class in eight years, they have to think about how to rebuild those skills.”

New EarBurner: A TCU Professor Walks Into a Dallas Bar
Nov. 12, 2021
D Magazine 
Last week, D Magazine editor Tim Rogers wrote a post detailing how someone had complained at a grocery store about the cover of our November issue, causing the magazines to be pulled from racks. Out west in Fort Worth, Jean Marie Brown trained a skeptical eye to Tim’s words and wrote him an email. Brown is an assistant professor of professional practice and the director of student media at the Bob Schieffer College of Communications. “There’s a part of Dallas, a part of the U.S., that doesn’t need to be ‘confronted’ with this history because they have lived it,” Brown wrote. “It’s important when trying to heal old wounds, not to inadvertently create new ones.”

Medical Pioneers Pave Path for Women
Nov. 12, 2021
KXAS-TV
Two women changing the face of medicine will be guests of honor when they meet with students at TCU. "Hopefully, I have paved the way for others to begin to be in this field which is male-dominated," said Dr. Velma Scantlebury, the country's first African-American, female transplant surgeon. She currently holds the position of professor of surgery at TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine in Fort Worth.

Nutrition study
Nov. 9, 2021
KPLA-FM
Studies are showing that the more we chew, the more calories we burn. Meena Shah, professor of nutrition, said, “People who eat slowly tend to eat less overall because they tend to eat more mindfully and pay attention to their stomach’s ‘I’m full’ signals.”

So your old boss wants you to come back—here’s how to negotiate a ‘boomerang’ offer
Nov. 9, 2021
CNBC
Returning to a former employer could be a good thing in some cases, says Abbie Shipp, a management professor, who specializes in employee engagement over time. As long as your resume doesn’t show a pattern of leaving and rejoining a company over and over again, “being a boomerang employee doesn’t carry a negative stigma that it once did,” Shipp said.

‘Civil Rights in Black and Brown:’ New book examines Texas’ overlooked activists
Nov. 9, 2021
Texas Standard
A new book examines the organizations and movements in the Black and Latino communities often overlooked by history. “Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas” is based on an oral history collaboration between Texas universities, and brings together more than 500 voices from the Panhandle to the Piney Woods. History professors Max Krochmal of TCU and Todd Moye of the University of North Texas led the project.

Plan to draft women is uniting unlikely political allies
Nov. 8, 2021
Government Executive
Anti-war activists and conservative hawks both want women to stay out of the Selective Service System. “It’s a weird pairing,” said Kara Vuic, LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict and Society in 20th-Century America. “They’re united because they don’t want women going to war, whether that’s because they don’t want anybody going to war or because they think women should be in the home … It is bringing together people both for and against who probably agree with each other on absolutely nothing else.” 

Tarrant County coalition announces $2 million to pay early childcare education workers 
Nov. 3, 2021
KDFW-TV
The city of Fort Worth is using money to attract and keep those caring for our youngest generation. It hopes $2 million will help hike wages for early childcare education workers, who nurture newborns, toddlers and pre-schoolers. "Most of them are women of color, working in these communities, raising other people’s children. Until we recognize the importance of that and the impact it can have on a community, then and only then, we can actually make the changes we need," said panelist Frank Hernandez, dean of the College of Education.

Cufflink Art announces affiliation with Fort Worth artists Adam Fung and Charles Gray, whose works will be included in the upcoming show, Winter Works
Nov. 3, 2021
Fort Worth Report
Cufflink Art is excited to announce its affiliation with Fort Worth-based artists Adam Fung and Charles Gray. The gallery will showcase works by both artists in their upcoming group exhibition, Winter Works 2021, which will be on view through Dec. 23, 2021. There will be an opening reception on from 5-8 p.m. Nov. 20. Fung is an associate professor of art at TCU.

Why all your coworkers who quit are about to come back as 'boomerang employees' 
Nov. 3, 2021
CNBC
Your workplace might have a few more familiar faces as the continued Great Resignation wave gives rise to the boomerang employee — or a former worker who returns to the company after some time away. Hiring managers tend to focus on asking high performers to return, because there’s less risk of them leaving or not succeeding in the role compared with someone completely new to the organization, said Abbie Shipp, a TCU management professor who specializes in employee engagement over time. And in today’s labor crunch, hiring managers want nothing more than a safe bet. “If you had greater turnover due to the Great Resignation, you’re thinking, ‘How do I fill this position with great candidates?’” Shipp said. “If there’s a known quantity, such as former employees, there’s less risk.”

Are Entrepreneurs Happier Than Everybody Else?
Nov. 2, 2021
The Wall Street Journal
Keith Hmieleski, professor of entrepreneurship at the Neeley School of Business at TCU, surveyed 303 founding CEOs of small businesses across the U.S., asking people to rate their agreement with various statements reflecting creativity. The men who rated themselves more highly for teamwork tended to be happier, as were the women who rated themselves more highly for creativity. “I think it’s a matter of balance,” he says. “In entrepreneurship, there’s a common stereotype of the ‘great man’ engaging in a lone risk-taking exercise, but in reality, entrepreneurship is more like raising a family, and communal and empathetic characteristics are just as important.”

Environmental leaders want to build museum in North Texas. Why?
Nov. 1, 2021
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
An effort is underway for Fort Worth to host the first environmental museum and innovation center in the U.S. Fort Worth might seem like an unlikely site for an environmental center, but TCU professor and EcoPlex advisory board member Becky Johnson thinks the city’s efforts to become more sustainable are underrated. “We have one of the best water supplies in the entire U.S., we have one of the most amazing wastewater treatment systems in the U.S. and we have one of the best curbside recycling programs in the U.S.”

Local COVID-19 research group secures FDA approval to start clinical trials Nov. 1, 2021
Fort Worth Report
Dr. Mohanakrishnan Sathyamoorthy, chair of internal medicine at the TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine, gathered a cohort of physicians across disciplines in North Texas to form the Fort Worth Clinical Sciences Working Group, a volunteer research team trying to determine if an already-existing drug could treat the sickest COVID-19 patients. A year and six months later, after about 40 Zoom meetings and five in-depth proposal revisions, the group’s efforts came to fruition. In late September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the group’s research for clinical trials. 

ALUMNI

‘Boise Boys’ Luke Caldwell & Clint Robertson: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Nov. 1, 2021
Heavy.com
Luke Caldwell and Clint Robertson '92 of HGTV's “Boise Boys” are the self-proclaimed “Odd Couple” of home renovations. They are total opposites and best friends. The show follows Caldwell and Robertson as they renovate and sell homes in Boise. Their new show “Outgrown” premiered in September 2021 and follows Caldwell and Robertson as they help families who’ve outgrown their spaces. Robertson graduated at the top of his class at TCU where he met his wife Sandy. The couple has three kids — Jake, Eli and Daniel — and fans of “Boise Boys” have seen Clint put his boys to work helping out on home renovations.

STUDENTS

Spectrum News Austin - TWC News All Morning
Nov. 3, 2021
Spectrum News Austin 
A group of students from TCU hasn't let the pandemic stop them from connecting with the elderly community as right in the Texas spirit. TCU student Marie Thompson is a senior biology major on the pre-med track. She's applying to medical school right now. "My grandfather, he was at a memory ward, and so he kind of struggled with loneliness." TCU's pre- health students gather for a Zoom and host crafts and conversation with the senior residents at Trinity Terrace Retirement Community.

ATHLETICS

TCU basketball: Frogs to honor Ed Schollmaier during opener
Nov. 11, 2021
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
As TCU opens its season against McNeese State, the school and team honor and celebrate the life of the late Ed Schollmaier before the game with the team wearing “ES” jersey patches throughout the season. Schollmaier spent part of his fortune to help renovate the TCU basketball arena that is named after him and his wife Rae. “We had a real common love of the game and for the same reasons,” coach Jamie Dixon ’87said. Schollmaier became a fixture at TCU basketball games over the years, sitting courtside. The women’s team is wearing the same “ES” patches for home games. “It will take a while to get used to not having him here cheering on our teams,” said athletic director Jeremiah Donati.

Local business owner, TCU basketball star team up
Nov. 5, 2021
Fort Worth Business Press 
With the NCAA recently adopting a new rule that athletes can capitalize on the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL), college athletes are now able to reap financial rewards as a result. And when Kara Baker, owner of MOVE Athleisure heard of this, she knew exactly who she wanted to represent her brand – Lauren Heard, graduate student and member of the TCU Lady Frogs basketball team.

Gary Patterson’s legacy in Fort Worth ‘so much more than college football’
Nov. 4, 2021
Fort Worth Report
In March 2000 a tornado ripped through the city of Fort Worth. Months later, in December 2000, Gary Patterson took over for Dennis Franchione as head coach for the Texas Christian University football team.  In TCU professor and local historian Gene Allen Smith’s mind, the two events are linked: the beginning of a vibrant and transformative era for the city and the school. “What we see happening both in Fort Worth and in TCU is a resurgence of the city and a resurgence of the university — and the resurgence of the football team,” Smith said about the year 2000. Trustees emeriti Matt Rose and John Roach were also interviewed.

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