Stories

Research from the Davies School of Communication & Sciences Disorders’ Emily Lund and Jean Rivera Perez is helping reshape how educators and clinicians support bilingual children with hearing loss, challenging long-held assumptions about language development. Their work was recently featured in The Dallas Morning News, which highlighted their research examining how Spanish-English bilingual children develop early literacy skills.

Research by Austin Graybeal ’21 Ph.D., assistant professor of kinesiology in Harris College, was recently published. But his work on GLP-1 medications and the link between muscle loss and fat began back during his time as a doctoral student at TCU.

A decade after a pivotal phone call helped launch her first NIH-funded research project, TCU professor Emily Lund is helping cultivate the next generation of federally funded researchers. Guided by Dean Bernard Rousseau's commitment to mentorship and research excellence, Harris College continues to strengthen its research enterprise, culminating in the college's first institutionally awarded NIH R01 grant and a growing culture of collaborative discovery.

Brett Garcia, a second-year nurse anesthesia student, recently won the top prize at the Rm8: AANA Innovation Lab presentations, hosted by the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology in Boston.

Austin Graybeal, ’21 Ph.D., assistant professor of kinesiology in TCU’s Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences, spoke with Fox 4’s Shaun Rabb about his latest project to expand access to breast cancer screening in rural and underserved communities in Texas.

TCU’s Department of Kinesiology took center stage at TCU’s inaugural Global Human Performance Forum, which brought together global leaders in athletic training, coaching and research.

Austin Graybeal, assistant professor and researcher of kinesiology, just earned the university's first-ever Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) award for his research and project on early breast cancer detection and screening.

To honor the legacy and contribution of former Harris College Dean Chris Watts, TCU Trustee Marilyn Davies established the Dr. Christopher R. Watts Endowed Scholarship to support COSD students.

What started as a doctoral dissertation nearly a decade ago has now evolved into a federally funded research project to bridge the gap in bilingual speech-language pathology and vocabulary development for young children.