From clarifying the root of political expressions to boosting the mental health of our nurses to changing the face of art in Austin, TCU and its faculty and alumni are featured in the news. Check out the latest roundup of newsworthy Horned Frogs. 

INSTITUTIONAL

In a COVID world, seminaries prepare pastors for new digital realities of ministry
May 14, 2021
Baptist News Global

While churches have adapted to new digital realities brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, seminaries also have adapted to train ministers how to lead in new ways, both online and in-person. For three years, students from Brite Divinity School have been able to intern at First UCC SL, learning to serve these different kinds of members. Stephen Sprinkle, Brite’s director of field education and supervised ministry, said the church “is a cutting edge setting we have worked with.”

Crime in Fort Worth: Police morale, education, training and public misconceptions 
May 12, 2021
Fort Worth Business Press 

In a Q&A with Chief Neil Noakes MS ’19, he said, “Some of them are basic training just about the duties and functions of a police officer. Some are about our specialized units and then we also have more supervisory and even an executive level training programs. Some here at the academy, one lead program at TCU is for executive level training. Get 12 graduate hours for TCU and a certificate of completion upon completing the course. Those graduate hours will either transfer into TCU’s master’s program or you can take it somewhere else if you wanted to as well.”

One Dallas-Fort Worth university makes the grade as a top U.S. college for the value
May 10, 2021
CultureMap 

TCU scored well in specific categories ranked by The Princeton Review, among them: Best Quality of Life (No. 4), Best College Dorms (No. 4), Best Schools for Internships - Private Schools (No. 4), Best-Run Colleges (No. 5), Best Alumni Networks - Private School (No. 6), Best Counseling Services (No. 6), Happiest Students (No. 8) and Most Active Student Government (No. 8).

 FACULTY

In-depth: As leisure, hospitality sector bounces back, so does need for workers 
May 14, 2021
KSHB-TV

The good news is that more than a half-million jobs have been added in the U.S. leisure and hospitality sector during the last two months. The bad news is there’s a long way to go in rehiring for the sector that was the hardest hit by the pandemic recession brought on by COVID-19 emergency orders. John T. Harvey, professor of economics and Forbes contributor, suggests that the issue of leisure and hospitality wages may actually be "a moral problem, not an economic one."

Professor Michal Beth Dinkler on 'the danger of a single Christian story'
May 13, 2021
yale.edu

David Moessner, professor and chair of religion, is a senior scholar in New Testament studies who is well acquainted with Dinkler’s work and has served with her on several panels at international conferences. “Michal Beth argues for reading [the Bible] with more openness in terms of how the text will work on you with respect to what conclusions you draw and what actions you might take,” Moessner said. “The whole gamut of reader responses is included in her understanding of genre. She brings a lot of intuitive imagination” to the field.

Anti-Asian hate isn’t new. AAPI communities in Philly have faced decades of violence. 
May 13, 2021
Philadelphia Inquirer

“We have a history of Asian American lives not being respected as fully human,” said Scott Kurashige, chair of Comparative Race & Ethnic Studies, whose mother was imprisoned at war camps in Idaho and Texas. “There’s a sense to be white is to be normal, and your rights should be respected, and the police should protect you. … But what some see as normal is a racial privilege that’s been denied to others.”

Steve Wooden is BCHC Caring Kind employee 
May 11, 2021
Albion News 

Each year, Boone County Health Center staff chooses one employee to be recognized with the Caring Kind award for going above and beyond with patient care and kindness. This year, Steve Wooden, adjunct faculty of nurse anesthesia, was chosen from over 300 employees to be recognized with the Caring Kind Award.

Frisco woman shares story of survival after having stroke at 34 
May 10, 2021
KXAS-TV

According to Dr. Claudia Perez of the TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine, strokes can strike anyone at any age. High blood pressure is the leading cause, and that's more common in women due to pregnancy, menopause and birth control pills. "About 50% of women have high blood pressure and when we look at studies about 75% of those with high blood pressure don’t have their blood pressure controlled,” Perez said.

Dr. Nikhil Bhayani selected as Top Physician of the Year by IAOTP 
May 10, 2021
Digital Journal 

Dr. Nikhil K. Bhayani, assistant professor in the department of internal medicine at the TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine, was recently selected as Top Physician of the Year for 2021 by the international Association of Top Professionals.

Read It & Reap: The best reads aren't always the easiest reads 
May 9, 2021
Telegram & Gazette

Frederick Gooding Jr., author of Black Oscars and an associate professor within the John V. Roach Honors College, analyzes race within mainstream media. He will lead a virtual author talk from Worcester Public Library. Gooding is also author of You Mean, There’s RACE in My Movie? The Complete Guide to Understanding Race in Mainstream Hollywood used in schools and universities nationwide.

A Texas bill drew ire for saying it would preserve ‘purity of the ballot box.’ Here’s the phrase’s history.
May 9, 2021
The Washington Post 

A bill introduced in the Texas Legislature said its purpose was to punish fraud and maintain the “purity of the ballot box,” as instructed by the Texas Constitution. Debate ensued on the meaning of the term. Historically, appeals to "purity of the ballot" helped deprive Black Texans of their right to vote around the turn of the 20th century, said Gregg Cantrell, history professor. Jim Crow laws codifying racial segregation in Texas around the same time, in the 1890s and early 1900s.

New euphonium professor in Texas 
May 9, 2021
The British Bandsman

The TCU School of Music appointed David Humphreys as its professor of euphonium and tuba ahead of the 2021-2022 academic year. The musician will arrive at the Texas institution after serving in positions at Texas Woman’s University and Texas Wesleyan University. David has won multiple regional conference solo competitions on tuba and euphonium.

Bebout Wellness Center - Nurses Week 
May 7, 2021
KXAS-TV 

Sharon Canclini, assistant professor of professional practice in the Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences, discusses the importance of self-care for nurses and the Bebout Wellness Center during Nurses Week.

ALUMNI

The risk-taking, boundary-breaking Austin gallery that changed the face of Texas art
May 13, 2021
Texas Monthly

When Dave Hickey ’61 shuttered his gallery, A Clean Well-Lighted Place, 50 years ago, it was the end of a brief, delightful moment in the history of Texas art. During its life span, from 1967 to sometime around 1971 (everyone is a little hazy on the details), Hickey almost single-handedly created a milieu in Austin that gained national cachet. Along with a few like-minded curators elsewhere in the state, he helped launch and shape the Texas art scene as we know it today.

Julian Read, who briefed press after JFK assassination, dies
May 11, 2021
Associated Press

Julian Read, long-time public relations operative, whose long career in public relations included briefing the press after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963, has died in Texas. He was 93. Read died May 8 at a senior living community in Austin, said his daughter.