2020 Senior Spotlight: Honors graduate starts educational non-profit aimed at combatting systemic oppression
May 2020
Honors graduate Ali Carter knows the power of education – he’s experienced it firsthand. He grew up in Oklahoma City, where he remembers watching athletes play football through the fence on the fields of an elite college preparatory school, Heritage Hall, until police shooed him away. Carter eventually attended Heritage Hall, where he was able […]
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Honors Student Spotlight – Hannah Thornton
March 2020
Though she came to college with no prior experience in table tennis, Honors student Hannah Thornton became the first female member of the TCU Table Tennis team by the end of her first semester in 2017. At that time, the club lacked a practice schedule and did not compete outside of TCU. Since then, thanks […]
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Honors Student Brings Improvisation Into Research
February 2020
Grant Lattanzi came to TCU with aspirations of an acting career. However, after his experience conducting an independent research project, his dream changed course. “My career trajectory has completely changed from career actor to aspiring professor,” he said. For his project, “Improvisation Training and Communication In and Out of the Natural Sciences: Developing a research-informed […]
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Honors Student Sticks the Landing with TCU Gymnastics
October 2019
Abbie Moore couples an Honors skill set with a passion for gymnastics. Honors student and speech-language pathology major Abbie Moore has been involved in gymnastics her whole life. She started competing when she was only 9 years old and, as a freshman, joined a fledgling TCU Gymnastics Club as a way to meet others who […]
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Graduating Senior Chosen for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX) in Germany
May 2019
Alli Jones is a graduating Honors senior and Chancellor’s Scholar in the School of Music and was recently selected as a participant of the 2019-2020 Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX). The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX) is a fellowship funded by the German Bundestag and U.S. Department of State. It is […]
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