From researching our complex brains to recognizing a groundbreaking alumnus and clinching a Big 12 Championship appearance, TCU is in the news.
INSTITUTIONAL
TCU’s first Black student-athlete is now immortalized on campus. Here’s his story.
Nov. 14, 2022
MSN
A statue of James Cash ’69 was unveiled in front of Schollmaier Arena as part of TCU’s Race & Reconciliation Initiative. Cash was TCU’s first Black student-athlete, the first Black basketball player in the Southwest
Conference and the first Black tenured professor at Harvard Business School. The ceremony
included former TCU teammates, Fort Worth and Tarrant County leaders, Cash’s family, current TCU basketball players and student representatives of I.M.
Terrell Academy. “During those times, strictly with Jim Crow segregation, I was blessed
to have teachers with advanced degrees [at I.M. Terrell], who required absolute excellence
from all of us,” Cash said. “This institution [TCU] represented for me, starting at
that point, a place that really set the standard for not accepting mediocre commitments
and social constraints.”
Mental health experts emphasize the need for whole-family support to protect youth
mental health
Nov. 11, 2022
Fort Worth Report
Fort Worth ISD is harnessing “creative partnerships” to reconnect students and families
to services throughout the county. The district recently partnered with TCU to open a counseling center in one of the district’s family resource centers, which
help people with behavioral health services as well as basic needs like food and clothing.
FACULTY
Will Dan Patrick be able to fulfill his campaign promises?
Nov. 15, 2022
Spectrum News
On the campaign trail, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick told supporters he’d tackle rising crime
in Texas if re-elected. Jim Riddlesperger, political science professor, thinks Patrick will keep this promise, saying a mandatory-minimum
bill could definitely pass in the next session. “This is the Republican response,
obviously, to the Democrats’ preference for having more strict gun laws in the country,” Riddlesperger said. “And the Republicans’ argument is that gun laws won’t deter crime,
but maybe penalties for people to use guns will. So, that’s the genesis of this. And
the answer is that, of course, it’s possible that the legislature could pass it. We
have a firmly Republican legislature right now. We have a conservative Republican
governor who would likely sign such a bill.”
What music and reading might be able to teach us about prediction patterns in the
brain
Nov. 10, 2022
Fort Worth Report
When Tracy Centanni was an undergraduate student at Penn State University, she took on her first neuroscience
project under the tutelage of two established professors. Today, Centanni has a Ph.D. in cognition and is an assistant professor of psychology at TCU,
leading a lab that is trying to understand how the brain learns to read and the impact
of genetic and environmental factors on that ability. “We know that there are some
overlapping neural networks that support both music and language. And we’ve seen in
kids that if you give them rhythm training, music training, it does seem to help with
reading,” she said.
AANA president-elect receives $1 million grant to study racial health equity
Nov. 4, 2022
NJ Urban News
Dru Riddle, president-elect of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology, is part of
a group of researchers that recently received a $1 million grant to study racial health
equity. The grant, awarded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, positions certified
registered nurse anesthetists (CRNA) at the forefront of driving national health care
policy. “As a CRNA, I see firsthand when racial health inequity impacts outcomes for
patients,” Riddle said.
Hundreds of U.S. sheriffs are up for election. What are their political views?
Nov. 3, 2022
USA Today
Over the last decade, debates about police violence, mass incarceration and other
criminal justice issues have generally focused on police chiefs and prosecutors. To
make sense of this blend of policing and politics, The Marshall Project — a nonprofit
news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system — conducted an exclusive,
wide-ranging survey with two of America’s leading scholarly experts on sheriffs, including Emily Farris, associate professor of political science.
White supremacy's deadly game with minorities
Nov. 3, 2022
China Daily Global
Violence between Asian and Black communities seen stemming from racist power structures
in the U.S. began in 1992 after a jury in a California county court pronounced four
white police officers not guilty of assault in the brutal assault of a Black man they
arrested for drunken driving in Los Angeles. “The L.A. Riots were and still are today
framed as a Black-Asian conflict. But the truth is: it didn't occur in a vacuum,”
Scott Kurashige, professor of comparative race and ethnic studies, said.
ALUMNI
This Fort Worth moving company helps take stress of moving away from our nation's
veterans
Nov. 11, 2022
KDAF-TV
Moving can be overwhelming for anyone but Veterans Moving America is helping alleviate
some of that stress. Zach Freeman ’13, founder and CEO, said he started this company while still in graduate school at TCU
and knew that he wanted to start a business to help our nation’s veterans. “The idea
started based primarily on experience with a Marine that moved in with my family when
he had fallen on some hard times. I just got to watch a lot of the struggles that
a lot of vets face, firsthand. Beyond some of the more common ones you might hear,
like PTSD, for me, the biggest surprise was watching him get a job, do really well
at it, but still always feel like an outsider,” Freeman said.
Co-founders behind Fort Worth's Rollin' n Bowlin' launch snacking brand realsy to
'disrupt' the industry
Nov. 1, 2022
Dallas Innovates
Austin Patry ’17 and Sophia Karbowski ’17 first became business partners in 2017 while studying entrepreneurship at TCU. Wanting a healthier eating option on campus, they launched Rollin’ n Bowlin’ as a
food truck, serving up smoothies and açai bowls. The brand has since traded in its
wheels for walls and focuses on opening brick-and-mortar locations on college campuses. It’s
also rebranded its snack line as realsy, a shelf-stable snack pack. “Starting a business
during college can be an immense challenge if you don’t have the necessary resources
and support, but I also think it’s the best time in your life to start a company,” Patry said.
Fort Worth's innovation chief recommends city keep bitcoin mining machine following
pilot project
Nov. 1, 2022
Fort Worth Report
After six months of the city of Fort Worth testing out operating its own bitcoin mining
machine, staff is recommending that the city continue mining. The pilot project garnered
more than 752 million web impressions, as the city tries to rebrand itself as one
open to technology and innovation. Carlo Capua ’00, the city’s chief of strategy and innovation, said, “They learned a few things about
the cryptocurrency in Fort Worth, like the fact the Fort Worth Zoo, United Way of
Tarrant County and TCU accept bitcoin donations and that Fort Worth is home to the
largest crypto ATM services in the country, Coinsource.”
ATHLETICS
Sure, TCU Could Make The Playoff. But More Importantly, It Earned Texas Football Bragging
Rights.
Nov. 15, 2022
FiveThirtyEight
“In the state of Texas, you want to be No. 1,” Drew Hogan, a TCU fan, told ESPN earlier this season. “It doesn’t matter what game it is, who it is,
you want to win for bragging rights at dinner.” And after this past weekend, those
rights went to the Horned Frogs from Fort Worth, whose 17-10 win over the Longhorns
punched TCU’s ticket to the Big 12 championship game and kept their College Football Playoff hopes
alive. Most importantly, the victory means TCU has climbed atop Texas’s heap of 12 Football Bowl Subdivision programs, extending
a recent renaissance for a program that had gone more than 50 years without being
the state’s best team until the 2010s.
5 takeaways from No. 4 TCU’s victory over No. 18 Texas: Frogs get the job done in
Austin
Nov. 13, 2022
The Dallas Morning News
The TCU Horned Frogs defeated the Texas Longhorns 17-10 in Austin to keep their undefeated
record intact. Every time it seems the Frogs don’t have any more tricks up their sleeve,
head coach Sonny Dykes and his team have found a way to walk away victorious. With the victory against the
Horns, TCU has clinched a spot in the Big 12 Championship. “The [Texas] skill players can make
big plays at any time,” Dykes said. Wide receiver Quentin Johnston said, “I thought defensively, we played lights out.”
Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff will be at TCU vs. Baylor
Nov. 13, 2022
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
TCU continues to be an attractive draw for major network pregame shows. Fox’s Big Noon
Kickoff will be in Waco to see No. 4 TCU try to improve to 11-0 at Baylor. The Horned Frogs and Bears will kick off at 11 a.m.
at McLane Stadium directly after the pregame show that features Reggie Bush, Matt
Leinart, Urban Meyer and Brady Quinn. It’s the third week in a row a TCU game will be featured on a pregame show.
'College GameDay' 2022 Week 11: #4 TCU vs. #18 Texas
Nov. 11, 2022
ESPN
College GameDay is back in Austin, Texas, on Nov. 12 as No. 4 TCU takes on No. 18 Texas. Hosted by Rece Davis, Lee Corso and Pat McAfee, this premier
pregame show airs on ESPN and ESPNU. Despite this, TCU enters this game as a 7-point underdog to Austin, the most points the Horns have been
favored by over a top-five team since the 1978 FBS/FCS split.
I’m glad I’m a Horned Frog | By Max Duggan
Nov. 10, 2022
The Players' Tribune
Max Duggan was featured on The Players’ Tribune: I'm Glad I'm a Horned Frog. “If you’d have asked
me a few months ago if this team could be 9–0 and in the playoff picture, I’d have
said: ‘Yeah, I can see that. The thing is, a few months ago, you probably wouldn’t
have asked.’ We were coming off a year where we went 5–7, we had a new head coach,
we’re in one of the best conferences. Not a lot of people gave us a shot,” the quarterback said.
Inside the wild videos that made TCU the internet's new favorite team
Nov. 9, 2022
The Athletic
Jon Petrie figured the first video would never see the light of day beyond his office. TCU was preparing to play Oklahoma State in a matchup of Top-15 teams that would do
a lot to help shape the Big 12 title race. One day early in the week, Petrie, TCU’s coordinator of creative video, eschewed his lunch break and started
to create. He started with a fitting soundtrack of “Crazy Frog,” a techno-inspired
repurposing of the Beverly Hills Cop theme song that caught fire on the internet more than a decade ago when paired with
images of a mascot for a small ringtone company. “What if I just took that song and
combined a bunch of weird pictures of frogs and edit them together very weirdly with
no rhyme or reason to it,” Petrie said.
TCU takes advantage of upsets, moves up to No. 4 in College Football Playoff rankings
Nov. 8, 2022
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The TCU Horned Frogs moved up to No. 4 in the latest release of the College Football
Playoff rankings. The 13-member committee moved the Horned Frogs up three places on
Tuesday after beating Texas Tech 34-24 to move to 9-0. “That’s a real tribute to our
players. Those guys have been incredible,” coach Sonny Dykes said. “Our guys completely believe in what we’re doing and they really care about
each other. It’s a really fun group to coach.”
TCU soccer reaches NCAA Tournament
Nov. 7, 2022
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
For the seventh straight year, TCU Soccer will be in the NCAA Tournament. The Horned Frogs earned an at-large bid and will be
the No. 5 seed in the Notre Dame Quadrant and will be a first-round host for the fourth
time in program history. TCU finished the year 12-4-5 and is currently ranked No.
17 in the country.
From backup QB to Heisman contender, Max Duggan is leading TCU on a historic season
Nov. 5, 2022
Yahoo News
From backup QB to Heisman contender, Max Duggan is leading TCU on a historic season. “There's been a lot of ups and downs in my career
in the last four years. I really kind of learned about myself and I think those are
things that will help me for the rest of my life. The place I wanted to be at was
TCU and that was with whatever role I had,” Duggan said.