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By Alexandria Bruton Staff Reporter As the university continues working toward becoming a more eco-friendly campus, it will face some challenges, university officials said. Last spring the university signed the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment. (0) comments
Changes to a teaching certification program in the College of Education will give students more flexibility as they enter the workforce, an associate professor in the program said. With the new EC-6 program, certified students will be qualified to teach grade levels from early childhood to sixth grade, rather than through only the fourth grade with the former EC-4 program. (0) comments
A feminist sociologist will be speaking about the extent of her research as well as the misconceptions and stereotypes of feminism Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Kelly Alumni and Visitors Center . Karen Steele, the women's studies program director , said speaker Monica Casper will intertwine the responsibilities, obstacles and experiences of being a woman, mother and feminist in her speech, "Body Politics: Private Talks of a Public Feminist. (0) comments
The Bank of America Foundation donated a $20,000 grant that will benefit the Miller Speech and Hearing Clinic, the chairman of the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department said. Christopher Watts, chair of the department of communication sciences and disorders, said the money will be used to offset costs in providing speech and hearing therapy. (0) comments
Residential Services is sponsoring the first diversity poster competition on campus to encourage students to visually express how they perceive diversity and what it means to them. Ashanti Williams, the hall director for Brachman, Martin Moore, and Wiggins halls, said the competition is designed to get students to visualize and think about diversity on a broader spectrum. (0) comments
Traveling and spending time outdoors led Ian Dalziel to apply to the Navy; however, after learning that a lazy eye would keep him from being enlisted, a keen curiosity for the Earth led him in another direction. Dalziel, a research professor at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin, presented his lecture "Is There a Supercontinent Cycle in Earth History: Paleontology over the Last Billion Years" Monday night at the Sid Richardson Building. (0) comments
The New Jersey attorney general is investigating JuicyCampus.com for what it calls "unconscionable commercial practices," according to a statement from her office. JuicyCampus and the companies associated with it have been subpoenaed, according to a statement from the office released Tuesday. (0) comments
TCU Police detained two men and one woman on suspicion of motor vehicle burglary Monday night, but no arrests were made, a TCU Police official said. Sgt. Alvin Allcon said TCU police stopped and searched a maroon Ford sedan after a suspected burglary in the parking lot of the Bayard H. (1) comment
An event honoring Sen. Barack Obama's, D-Ill., pastor will be moved off campus because of security concerns, and university officials will not give details. Chancellor Victor Boschini said security on campus is a priority but did not elaborate on the nature of the concerns. (9) comments
TCU will announce today that it, FPL Energy and the University of Oxford will enter into a research partnership on how to integrate wind energy into the Texas ecological community, an environmental science professor said. Mike Slattery, a professor of environmental science, said the research grant that TCU received for the partnership is the largest research grant in school history. (0) comments
Oxford University in England and TCU will team up with the world's largest wind-energy producer to conduct a five-year research project to focus on the impact of wind power development, Chancellor Victor Boschini said Wednesday during a news conference. The research, funded by FPL Energy LLC, will be coordinated by TCU's Institute for Environmental Studies and Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute, Boschini said. (0) comments
The decision to continue with a banquet honoring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was met with varying opinions from students, faculty and alumni of TCU and Brite Divinity School. Chancellor Victor Boschini could not be reached for comment, but said in an e-mail statement that Brite and TCU were separate entities and the decision to award Wright was Brite's, not TCU's. (1) comment
The hands of a local maestro will soon help guide the flutes, percussions, trumpets and horns of the TCU Symphony Orchestra. Miguel Harth-Bedoya, music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, is now the distinguished guest professor of conducting in the School of Music, said German Gutierrez, director of orchestras at the School of Music. (0) comments
Effective communication in a multicultural and multireligious world is the key to tolerance and appreciation of different religions, a theology professor told Brite Divinity School students Tuesday. Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic social thought at Georgetown University, discussed in a church at Weatherly Hall whether leaders of different religions engaging in dialogue will undermine or replace the mission of evangelism. (0) comments
The theatre department is undergoing a curriculum makeover in an attempt to be accredited by an organization of schools that establish national standards for undergraduate and graduate theatre degree plans, the chairman of the department said. Harry Parker, the chairman of the theatre department, said the National Association of Schools of Theatre accreditation is like a stamp of approval. (0) comments
The Korean Student Association has been approved by Student Development Services, making it TCU's newest multicultural student organization. Sang Byeon, a doctorate Biblical interpretation student at Brite and president of KOSA, said the primary mission of the organization is to "promote Korean culture and fellowship between Korean students" at TCU and "harmonious communication" among the members and other people interested in Korean culture. (0) comments
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