Announcements
Ty Borders, professor and chair of health sciences & public health, was a member of the technical working group that recently advised on a new report from the National Endowment for the Arts. The report presents growing evidence on how arts-based approaches, particularly music, can help address the opioid crisis.
Senior health sciences major Ansel Din-Mbuh was named a 2026 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team nominee, an honor recognizing excellence in academics, community service and athletics. The TCU Football student-athlete earned 2025 Academic All-Big 12 Team honors for his achievements in the classroom and demonstrates leadership beyond academics by organizing a backpack drive, participating in TCU's annual Thanksgiving Turkey Drive and mentoring prospective student-athletes as they transition to college.
The research and real-life application of Emily Haag is now on display at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, highlighting real-time analytics and science happening within TCU’s Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences. Read the full story.
Emily Haag, assistant professor of Health Science & Public Health, will present her research at the World Congress of Biomechanics in Vancouver, British Columbia, this summer. The 10th World Congress will celebrate “all that’s new, bold and boundary-pushing in biomechanics,” featuring scientific and social programming that brings together the global research community. Haag and Peter Weyand, kinesiology professor, are codirectors of TCU’s Locomotor Performance Laboratory and recently published “Sex Differences in Human Running Performance: Smaller Gaps at Shorter Distances?” in the Journal of Applied Psychology.