From the Oscars to nostalgia and from the environment to women’s pay, Horned Frogs are being featured in the news.
INSTITUTIONAL
Texas ‘Country Boy’ Helped Launch Personal-Computer Era
March 25, 2022
The Wall Street Journal
John V. Roach, who has died at age 83, oversaw introduction of a small $600 PC at RadioShack in
1977. Mr. Roach also served in the 1990s as chairman of the board of trustees at Texas Christian University, or TCU, his alma mater, where the honors college is named after him. He studied
physics and math at TCU, where he graduated in 1961. He later returned to the university
and earned an MBA. At TCU, he met Jean Wiggin ’66, who was studying business education. They married in 1962. She survives him, along
with two daughters, six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
John Roach, pioneer of the personal computer, is dead at 83
March 24, 2022
The New York Times
John Roach, a marketing visionary who helped make the home computer ubiquitous in the late 1970s
by introducing the fully assembled Tandy TRS-80 for $599.95 or less through RadioShack
chain stores, died on Sunday in Fort Worth. He was 83. He graduated with a bachelor’s
degree in business administration from Texas Christian University in 1961 and then worked for two years at the Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility
in Hawaii before returning to the university, where he earned a master’s in business
administration in 1965. In the 1990s, Mr. Roach was chairman of Texas Christian University’s Board of Trustees, helping to double its endowment to more than $1 billion, build a technology center
and play a supporting role in Fort Worth’s civic and cultural life. In 2007 the John V. Roach Honors College was endowed in his honor at TCU by his friends Paul and Judy Andrews of Fort Worth. “He was able to blend his intelligence with judgment,” J. Luther King Jr., his friend and successor as board chairman, said in an interview. Mr. Roach, he
added, succeeded in transforming the university from “a regional university to a national
university.”
Texas State University produces some the highest paid women in the country, report
says
March 23, 2022
The San Antonio Express-News
Steppingblocks ranked Texas State No. 6 out of 13 doctoral and research universities
in the South. Texas Christian University was ranked No. 12. According to the website, graduates earn an average of $131,855
on average and often go on to work at companies such as Lockheed Martin and Deloitte.
The top majors there are nursing, accounting and law.
Texas Christian University digs into its past with initiative studying slavery and
racism
March 23, 2022
KERA
Frederick W. Gooding Jr., Dr. Ronald E. Moore Honors Professor of Humanities, understands that history can
be complicated, especially when it comes to the history of a college campus. “History
means so many different things to so many different people. We're talking about staff,
students, alumni and faculty, who all have a different perspective as to what happened
and what part of the story we tell,” Gooding said. For the last year and a half, Gooding
has served as the inaugural chair of TCU’s Race & Reconciliation Initiative, a five-year
research project that is studying the university’s relationship to slavery, racism
and the Confederacy.
Roxo agency brings together alumni, clients to celebrate a 'Decade of Difference,'
positive social change
March 23, 2022
Fort Worth Report
Roxo celebrated 10 years of history and client work with past Roxstars and its client
community last week. The agency has grown from just a dozen students to nearly 30
each semester. The unique, student-driven, full-service advertising and public relations
agency at TCU has taught, employed and prepared around 400 students in the past decade with “real-world”
client work and community-service learning projects. Professors and staff from the Department of Strategic Communication and the Bob Schieffer College of Communication also came to show their support for the agency. Sarah Angle, Roxo’s faculty director, welcomed everyone and opened the floor for conversation.
Watch: Fort Worth’s Republican mayor criticizes GOP, pushes for Medicaid expansion
and defends trans kids
March 23, 2022
Texas Tribune
Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker, the only Republican helming one of Texas’ largest
five cities, criticized the current state of the GOP and its intraparty battles Wednesday.
Parker sat down Wednesday for a wide-ranging conservation with Texas Tribune CEO Evan
Smith at Texas Christian University — touching on her city’s rampant growth, high homicide rate and other hot topics.
FACULTY
The redefinition of rigor
March 29, 2022
The Bharat Express News
As colleges quickly moved classes online two years ago, professors went into emergency
mode. Jessica Zeller, associate professor of dance at Texas Christian University who teaches both studio
and theory classes, says students will tell you that a class is rigorous in both words
and demeanor. If a course challenges students in the best sense of the word, she says,
students will say so. They will come to class. They will be engaged. The class will
gel and work collaboratively.
Military historians are people too!
March 29, 2022
Google podcasts
On this podcast, Kara Dixon Vuic, Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century
America, talks Mumford and Sons, financial frugality and barbecue. "I did my fourth-grade
history project on Gen. George S. Patton," she said.
Nostalgia can reduce perception of pain, study shows
March 28, 2022
CNN
One study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology showed that nostalgia — triggered by a writing task — decreased the perception of
pain intensity among people suffering from chronic pain. Further research found that
people had an increased pain tolerance following thoughts of nostalgia, according
to Cathy Cox, associate professor of psychology. “It’s cool to find more and more research bridging
the overlap between these psychological and emotional constructs that we’re studying,
and these biological and behavioral responses,” said Cox, a psychologist with a focus
on nostalgia.
#OscarsSoWhite still plagues Hollywood's highest achievement awards
March 25, 2022
The Conversation
"Three Black actors were nominated for Oscars in 2022, six years after the Twitter
campaign #OscarsSoWhite rocked Hollywood," writes Frederick Gooding Jr., Dr. Ronald E. Moore Honors Professor of Humanities, in a recent op-ed. "When the
94th Academy Awards take place on March 27, 2022, its efforts for diversity – and
its shortcomings – will be just as much on display as the designer gowns and outstanding
performances."
Tuesday Evenings Lecture Presents Jeff Ferrell
March 25, 2022
artandseek.org
Sociology Professor Jeff Ferrell, a sociologist, scavenger and author of several books, has scrounged trash piles
and containers most every day for half a century. In conjunction with the recent publication
of his book Last Picture, Ferrell presents “Last Picture: Trash, Photography, Dislocation,” in which he displays
and discusses some of the thousands of discarded photographs he has salvaged from
the trash heaps of Fort Worth over the past 20 years.
Desert Rat’s Legacy: RIP Tony Burgess: Helped Shape Biosphere 2
March 24, 2022
Tucson Weekly
Tony Burgess, a controversial yet beloved professor of ecological systems at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, from 2004 to 2013, died at age 73, after a long battle with multiple
cancers brought on by Agent Orange exposure during U.S. Army service in Vietnam. He
was born in Fort Worth, which played a key role in his career. In 1983, he helped
design the rooftop of the landmark Caravan of Dreams arts center in the city’s historic
downtown, financed by oil heir Ed Bass. It featured an interpretive garden of succulents
under a Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome, with a dramatic terrace garden of giant
yuccas.
In industrial southeast Fort Worth, neighbors say they’ve had enough of air pollution,
health issues
March 23, 2022
Fort Worth Report
The city of Fort Worth has zoned an area near Echo Heights as “industrial growth center.” The
Echo Heights Environmental Coalition has support from the NAACP, Legal Aid of Northwest
Texas and Erik Kojola, TCU assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, who is assisting with research
on zoning and permitting. Activists are still determining the best path forward, but
researchers are looking into grant funding for low-cost air monitors that could provide
data on the amount of pollution in Echo Heights, Kojola said.
ALUMNI
Amy Hoover Named National CFI of the Year
March 24, 2022
Flying Magazine
Amy Hoover ’83, backcountry pilot, author and professor has been named 2022 National Certified Flight
Instructor of the Year. The award is bestowed by the FAA and the General Aviation
Awards Industry Board. Every year the General Aviation Awards recognize the top certificated
flight instructor, aviation technician and FAA Safety Team Representative of the year.
The honorees are nominated by their peers. Hoover has been flying for more than 30
years.
Fort Worth’s Blind Alley Projects kicks off their 2022 exhibition schedule
March 23, 2022
Texas Highways
Blind Alley Projects sits right off the street in a quiet residential neighborhood
a few blocks north of the museums in the Fort Worth Cultural District. The contemplative
space, one of the city’s latest art additions, presents contemporary exhibitions for
art lovers and unsuspecting pedestrians alike. “I’m drawn to the intimacy of the venue,
its distinctive architecture, and the ever-changing reflection of the glass façade,”
said Audrey Travis, who graduated with an MFA in sculpture from Texas Christian University in 2018.
“My work is a direct response to those elements, and I hope to enhance those qualities
in this exhibition.”
ATHLETICS
Saints sign veteran QB Dalton as possible Winston backup
March 29, 2022
Associated Press
The Saints have signed veteran quarterback Andy Dalton ’10, giving New Orleans a second experienced signal-caller behind returning starter Jameis
Winston. The 6-foot-2 Dalton was a second-round pick out of TCU and was part of Bengals playoffs teams in each of his first five NFL seasons, when
he was also voted to three Pro Bowls.
TCU Equestrian: All the Pretty Horses
March 28, 2022
Sports Illustrated
Surprising to exactly no one, coach Haley Schoolfield, senior Isabella Baxter and sophomore Jessica McAllister highlighted the All-Big 12 Conference Team awards, the league announced. Schoolfield
was named head coach of the year while Baxter and McAllister were both designated
riders of the year for fences and horsemanship, respectively.
Gunnar Henderson is TCU football’s feel-good story after one week of spring practices
March 27, 2022
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Gunnar Henderson dropped the ‘walk-on’ label Saturday as coach Sonny Dykes awarded him a scholarship. That served as a highlight for the opening week of spring
practices. Henderson’s teammates clearly approved the gesture by giving him a Rudy-esque
moment by lifting him up after a police officer made the announcement to the team.
“I’ve worked a lot of long hours and people telling me I can’t do this or can’t do
that,” Henderson said. “For me to be here and have the opportunity to play on this
team and this program is truly a blessing. But I’m not satisfied. I have goals and
dreams, so I’m going to keep working on them until I obtain them.”