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Class of 2023 Senior Spotlight: Elena Olalde
The Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences congratulates our May 2023 graduates! We proudly celebrate the accomplishments of our students, like Elena Olalde, a TCU Social Work major with Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) emphasis and a Spanish minor.
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Class of 2023 Senior Spotlight: Garrett Harvill
The Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences proudly celebrates the accomplishments of our students, like Garrett Harvill, a TCU Nursing major. He spoke with Harris College about his undergraduate experience and post-graduate endeavors.
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Class of 2023 Senior Spotlight: Gracie Liang
The Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences celebrates the accomplishments of our students, like Gracie Liang, a TCU Kinesiology movement science major, Spanish for Health Professions minor, John V. Roach Honors College student, and TCU Swim & Dive Team captain. She spoke with Harris College about her undergraduate experience and post-graduate endeavors.
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Leading On in Deaf Education
Students in the TCU Davies School of Communication Sciences & Disorders Deaf & Hard of Hearing Studies program learn to improve the listening, speech, language and literacy skills of those who are deaf and hard of hearing.
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Frogpreneur: Emily Sabado
From a young age, Emily Sabado ’18 (MSW ’19), Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) knew she wanted to be in the helping profession, and witnessing her parents build a successful business inspired her in more ways than one.
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TCU Doctor of Nursing Practice Program Receives Top 100 Ranking
The results are in! The U.S. News & World Report has ranked TCU #43 Best Graduate School for its Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program.
![Marilyn Davies, Dr. Morgan “Joey” Davies, Paula Rhodes Parker, and Marilyn and Morgan Davies, Dean of Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences Dr. Chris Watts posing for a photo after the university-wide Leadership Awards dinner](/stories/2023/images/leadership-award-670x450.jpg)
Dr. Joey Davies Receives Outstanding Young Professionals Award
Dr. Morgan “Joey” Davies’ personal struggles with an auditory processing disorder and dyslexia made her acutely aware of how disabilities can affect a student’s capacity to perform and succeed. After taking an American Sign Language class in high school, she knew deaf education would be her chosen career.
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Inaugural Harris College Student Research Conference a Success
The HCNHS Boller Competition is an event where Harris College students in the John V. Roach Honors College present research conducted with a faculty mentor and student poster presentations highlight undergraduate and graduate student research within Harris College.
![Abell-Hanger Professor of Gerontological Nursing Dr. Dennis Cheek presents the DAISY in Training Award™ to TCU Nursing senior Geo Martinez](/stories/2023/images/geo-martinez-award-768x512.jpg)
TCU Presents Winner of the DAISY in Training Award(TM)
TCU Nursing senior Geo Martinez was nominated by Abell-Hanger Professor of Gerontological Nursing Dennis Cheek, Ph.D., for his action in helping another TCU student with a hypoglycemic episode, and adjunct professor Haley Trainer, MSN, RN, nominated him for his work in the labor and delivery (L&D) clinical rotation at Texas Health Resources in Fort Worth.