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TCU Team Physicians Help Student-Athletes Prep for Optimal Performance
Elite athletes are special individuals with exceptional skill sets. Each athlete is from a different background and had access to different resources growing up. Most student-athletes have trained all their lives for this moment, but when the best of the best come together to compete in Division One Athletics, everyone starts fresh.
![TCU football Homecoming weekend 2022](/stories/2022/images/Homecoming-Game-768x1024.jpg)
Sports Psychology Helps Student-Athletes Prep for Optimal Performance
Elite athletes are special individuals with exceptional skill sets. Each athlete is from a different background and had access to different resources growing up. Most student-athletes have trained all their lives for this moment, but when the best of the best come together to compete in Division One Athletics, everyone starts fresh.
![TCU Football played Kansas State in the Big 12 Championship game at AT&T Stadium.](/stories/2022/images/Big-12-Championship-8006-768x512.jpg)
Athletic Training Helps Student-Athletes Prep for Optimal Performance
Elite athletes are special individuals with exceptional skill sets. Each athlete is from a different background and had access to different resources growing up. Most student-athletes have trained all their lives for this moment, but when the best of the best come together to compete in Division One Athletics, everyone starts fresh.
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Poverty in Young Adults: Q&A with TCU Social Work's Ashley Palmer
Homeless shelters in Fort Worth have surpassed capacity and community leaders fear the situation could worsen as winter draws near. Harris College students recently had the opportunity to participate in a poverty simulation where they walked a mile in the shoes of someone living in poverty.
![TCU students volunteering at a food pantry](/stories/2022/images/170304LWW101503-768x512.jpg)
Give Back to Fort Worth This Holiday Season
Holidays are a time to give thanks for all that you have, and what better way to do that than by giving back to those around you? Here are some ways to get involved this holiday season with local organizations.
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Poverty Simulation: A Series of Perspective, Part Three
Harris College students recently became sensitized to the day-to-day realities of life faced by people with low incomes through a poverty simulation. The experiment offered students an opportunity to consider how working within interprofessional and interdisciplinary teams might help them to deal more effectively with people living in poverty.
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6 Ways to Stay Healthy this Holiday Season
COVID case counts are increasing, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is impacting both children and adults, and of course, influenza has yet to peak. Experts are concerned holiday gatherings could accelerate a “tripledemic” and are bracing for the possibility that travel mixed with big family get-togethers will propel the spread of COVID-19, RSV and influenza.
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Poverty Simulation: A Series of Perspective, Part Two
Harris College students recently became sensitized to the day-to-day realities of life faced by people with low incomes through a poverty simulation. The experiment offered students an opportunity to consider how working within interprofessional and interdisciplinary teams might help them to deal more effectively with people living in poverty.
![Faculty and students participate in the 2022 Harris College poverty simulation.](/stories/2022/images/FullSizeR-768x942.jpg)
Poverty Simulation: A Series of Perspective
Harris College students recently became sensitized to the day-to-day realities of life faced by people with low incomes through a poverty simulation. The experiment offered students an opportunity to consider how working within interprofessional and interdisciplinary teams might help them to deal more effectively with people living in poverty.