Texas Christian University News Archives

San Diego Chargers all-pro running back LaDainian Tomlinson, former Texas Christian University standout, has moved the headquarters of his Touching Lives Foundation to the Burk Burnett Building in downtown Fort Worth from San Diego.

Share + Oct 27, 2009 9:53 pm US/Central Reporting Carol Cavazos FORT WORTH Halloween is the first big holiday since the spread of the H1N1 virus.

A high score on the SAT or ACT tests may get high school students admitted to their top choices for colleges, but the tests can also land students with scholarships that can essentially provide them with free college degrees.

Texas Christian University conducted a national search to locate its new athletics director, and found the man to fill the job a few hours away.

Oct 22, 2009 - Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a clinical stage pharmaceutical company commercializing potential best in class oncology and central nervous system therapeutics, today announced the results of an animal study that further demonstrates the company's Phase II oncology drug, Archexin, as having the potential to target and treat multiple ...

By ANTHONY SPANGLER FORT WORTH - Described as a pillar of Texas Christian University's graphic design program who had a 'rock star' status in the industry, Donald Ivan Punchatz was both a teacher and working illustrator.'Many people who reach his stature become very egocentric, but Don was extremely humble and shared his gifts,' said Lewis ...

In "Literary El Paso," editor Marcia Hatfield Daudistel has selected poems, a play, short fiction, memoirs, essays, journalism and chapters of novels -- works by 60 authors -- to assemble the El Paso that is often forgotten by natives and unknown to visitors and outsiders.

Traveling Chef Travis Johnson whips up some Italian pasta in Gibson Dining Hall while working for Sodexo on Wednesday, Oct.

By PUNCH SHAW FORT WORTH - It may have looked like a play, but it was also a classroom.

Here's a daily list of recent activities drawing the attention of North Texas law enforcement.

Fort Worth police released a sketch of the man who they say sexually assaulted a college student last week.

A retired Lockheed Martin employee who is a regular reader of this column recently called after I wrote about the growing menace of incivility in the country and the never-ending plague of racism.

After less than a year, independent grocer City Market confirmed Friday that it is selling its Westcliff neighborhood store in Fort Worth to Albertsons Llc., whose nearby University Avenue supermarket site was recently purchased by Kroger.

The woman reported the attack to TCU police around 9 p.m. on Tuesday. She was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth.

For the second time in a month, Fort Worth and Texas Christian University police are investigating a student rape case.

We want to eat healthfully. And we want to keep costs down. Luckily, trimming food costs doesn't mean you can't also trim fat, sugar, sodium and other bad stuff from your daily dinners.

When it comes to generating green energy from the wind, Texas leads the way. But in the pursuit of cleaner energy, there's also an environmental cost: Dead birds and bats killed by turbine blades.

A What an impressive jump from their 10th place standings at this competition last year! A The McKinney North Drumline is under the direction of Zac Robason, who joined the McKinney North High School band as a percussion instructor in June.

With so many candidates eyeing the governor's seat, Texas is headed for a busy primary season.

Kennedale saw the biggest bump - 100 percent - in home sales in September compared with a year earlier, while the neighborhoods around Texas Christian University in Fort Worth remained strong, the latest real estate agency figures show.

Last weekend at Bass Performance Hall, there were many bright spots in Texas Ballet Theater's season-opening performance of The Russian Masters , a repertory program that showed some of the company's strengths in familiar and not-so-well-known ballets.

Chef J.D. Loy and his wife, Suzanne, officially take over the reins of Cafe Aspen from David Rotman as managing partners Monday, when the Camp Bowie eatery opens with a renovated dining room.

TCU sends out alert after date-rape claim FORT WORTH - Police are investigating a TCU student's report that she may have been slipped a date-rape drug and sexually assaulted last month.

Police are investigating the sexual assault of a Texas Christian University student.

Dozens of drilling rigs, trucks and extraction tools sit idle in what some locals call the "gas graveyard" along a northeast section of Loop 436, and officials are worried about one of the leading industries in East Texas.

The recently announced Metroplex Natural Gas Vehicle Consortium is going tailgating.

Adam Blake made one of his first life-changing decisions as an eighth-grader in Kansas City.

The UCA Department of Music will host saxophonist Joe Eckert in concert Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Snow Fine Arts Center Recital Hall.A A versatile performer in both classical and jazz idioms, Eckert will perform a program that includes both styles.

After hail and high winds swept through parts of Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, the area will see a day of sun before more storms are expected to arrive this weekend.