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Study Abroad Spotlight: Japan

John V. Roach Honors College students are among the many Horned Frogs who embrace the world as their classroom, learning in new and unexpected ways in locales around the globe. The summer course “Honors Abroad: Games and Culture in Japan” took students to the “land of the rising sun.”

Honors graduate Alham (Ali) Carter, Executive Director & Co-Founder of Foundation for Liberating Minds

2020 Senior Spotlight: Honors graduate starts educational non-profit aimed at combatting systemic oppression

Posted on May. 06, 2020, by Ryann Swanson

Carter and a group of friends to start a non-profit organization, Foundation for Liberating Minds (FLM), to combat racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and other systems of oppression. According to its mission statement, FLM is dedicated to “enabling minds to promote open-mindedness without the exclusion rendered by our society.”

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Hannah Thornton

Honors Student Spotlight - Hannah Thornton

Posted on Mar. 04, 2020, by Ryann Swanson

Hannah Thornton is pursuing University Honors along with a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The John V. Roach Honors College Hosts Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for Fogelson Honors Forum

Posted on Feb. 17, 2020, by Ryann Swanson

In October 2019, the John V. Roach Honors College welcomed Abdul-Jabbar to TCU as the keynote speaker for the annual Fogelson Honors Forum.

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Grant Lattanzi presenting at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference.

Honors Student Brings Improvisation Into Research

Posted on Feb. 12, 2020, by Ryann Swanson

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.

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Whitnee Boyd

The Big Picture: Storytelling and Identity in an Honors Course

Posted on Jan. 06, 2020, by Ryann Swanson

TCU’s Coordinator of Special Projects, Dr. Whitnee Boyd, has taught Honors College Life and Identity for two semesters. Sharing identity through storytelling—in and outside of TCU—has been the core of her class.

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TCU Gives Day Honors Challenge

Posted on Nov. 08, 2019, by Ryann Swanson

TCU Honors alumnus Greg Beauchamp is offering a special bonus gift of $5,000 if the John V. Roach Honors College can reach 200 individual gifts on TCU Gives Day.

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Course Profile

Dr. Ron Pitcock Honored with Fort Worth Business Press Corporate Philanthropy Award for His Work with Honors Course, "Nature of Giving & Philanthropy"

Posted on Oct. 24, 2019, by Ryann Swanson

Each year, the Fort Worth Business Press presents its Corporate Philanthropy Awards, which honor community-minded companies and individuals who are philanthropic leaders in their organizations and communities. This year’s award recipients included a familiar face – Assistant Dean, J. Vaughn & Evelyne H. Wilson Honors Fellow, Director of Prestigious Scholarships, and Honors Professor Ron Pitcock.

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Abbie Moore doing a handstand

Honors Student Sticks the Landing with TCU Gymnastics

Posted on Oct. 03, 2019, by Ryann Swanson

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 shared her passion for the sport.

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Graduating Senior Chosen for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX) in Germany

Posted on May. 02, 2019, by Ryann Swanson

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).

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