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TCU Football defensive tackle and senior health science major Ansel Din-Mbuh shares his keys to success in balancing academics and athletics.

Using fewer paper towels can reduce waste, but proper hand hygiene should not be sacrificed in the process. Don Thushara Galbadage, an associate professor in TCU's Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences, recently shared his expertise in infectious diseases with Martha Stewart and Yahoo! News in an article examining how to effectively dry hands while minimizing paper towel use.

What if there were a shoe that could help athletes run faster? How about specialized footwear that can delay fatigue and keep you in the race longer, without getting tired as fast? Those are questions TCU researchers are answering in a recently published study with Nike.

As schools and state lawmakers across the country reconsider how much time children should spend at recess, Texas Christian University kinesiology professor Debbie Rhea is speaking with the media to explain why unstructured play should be viewed as part of the learning process — not as time taken away from it.

A club that came to be through many conversations, the desire to share Latino and Hispanic culture and create a community of support for students in healthcare majors, Latinos in Scrubs was officially established this fall.

Amanda Bose ’25, who currently works as a nurse in Oklahoma, was recently interviewed by KTUL, an ABC affiliate, after she saved a woman’s life at a local lake.

Board certification in lifestyle medicine will allow doctoral students to distinguish themselves as practitioners with specialized knowledge in health promotion, disease prevention and whole-person care. 

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.