Texas Womans Spring 2024 Magazine
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NEWS ROUNDUP<br />
Campus by Campus<br />
Learn what’s happening in Denton, Dallas and Houston<br />
> ABBY AND TODD<br />
WILLIAMS RECEIVE<br />
TWU LEADERSHIP AWARD<br />
At the spring Dallas<br />
Leadership Luncheon,<br />
philanthropists Abby<br />
and Todd Williams were<br />
awarded for their public<br />
education advocacy efforts.<br />
18 TEXAS WOMAN’S<br />
RANKING #1<br />
U.S. News & World Report<br />
ranked <strong>Texas</strong> Woman’s<br />
among the nation’s best<br />
for social mobility and<br />
named the university to the<br />
publication’s “Best National<br />
University” and “Top Public<br />
Schools” lists.<br />
ABBY AND TODD WILLIAMS<br />
HONORED FOR LEADERSHIP<br />
At the March Dallas<br />
Leadership Luncheon,<br />
philanthropists and public<br />
education advocates Abby<br />
and Todd Williams were<br />
awarded the <strong>2024</strong> Virginia<br />
Chandler Dykes Leadership<br />
Award. All proceeds from<br />
the annual event support<br />
TWU graduate student<br />
scholarships.<br />
DENTON<br />
ANOTHER NASA WIN FOR TWU<br />
KINESIOLOGY STUDENTS<br />
The all-women space<br />
design team, dubbed Atlas,<br />
built an exercise device to<br />
prevent muscle atrophy<br />
and earned TWU’s fourth<br />
first-place finish in the<br />
NASA-sponsored statewide<br />
competition.<br />
TOP 10 GOLD MILITARY<br />
FRIENDLY DESIGNATION<br />
TWU was named a Top<br />
10 Gold Military Friendly<br />
School, the highest<br />
designation awarded to<br />
institutions that provide<br />
exceptional support to<br />
military members, their<br />
families and veterans.<br />
DALLAS<br />
MHA TEAMS EARN TOP PRIZE<br />
Two master’s in healthcare<br />
administration teams<br />
finished in the top three at a<br />
competition where students<br />
used evidence-based<br />
research to identify and<br />
recommend interventions to<br />
improve hospital programs.<br />
VANDERKOOI ENDOWED<br />
LECTURESHIP HITS<br />
The Vanderkooi Endowed<br />
Lectureship established in<br />
1994 to honor occupational<br />
therapy’s first program<br />
director, Fanny B.<br />
Vanderkooi, celebrated<br />
its 31 st anniversary at the<br />
annual event in February.<br />
HOUSTON<br />
PACT TO PRODUCE TEACHERS<br />
Houston ISD has awarded<br />
a $500K grant to TWU<br />
to support nearly 100<br />
teaching assistants toward<br />
bachelor’s degrees and<br />
teaching certificates<br />
to produce more <strong>Texas</strong><br />
public educators.<br />
CARS FOR KIDS<br />
Occupational therapy<br />
and nursing students<br />
partnered with <strong>Texas</strong> A&M<br />
engineering and medicine<br />
students to provide electric<br />
vehicles for children with<br />
special needs to help them<br />
move, socialize and play<br />
independently.
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