School and Alumni News
探花楼’s all-female design competition team tackles space headaches in astronauts
5/4/21
Five Texas Woman’s kinesiology seniors brought research to life by competing in the April 20-21. The 探花楼 Athena V team, the second all-female 探花楼 team to enter the competition and the only all-female team competing this spring, placed seventh overall. All five team members will graduate this May.
Alumni Spotlight: Elizabeth Burns, PhD ’78, ’81
3/5/21
A career in academia, as a professor, was the long-term goal for health sciences alumna Elizabeth Burns, PhD 鈥�78, 鈥�81. Now retired, she and her husband have created a generous endowment as part of their estate plans to fund scholarships for full-time undergraduate students as part of the Elizabeth H. Burns and John M. Burns Scholarship Endowment.
探花楼 kinesiology graduate gains experience and skills by creating international youth program
12/7/20
Texas Woman鈥檚 summer 2020 graduate Sandhya Manjunath (MS in Kinesiology - Sport Management) hopes to one day introduce sport management programs across the nation in India. Thanks to the education and experiences she received from 探花楼, she is on track to make that dream a reality.
探花楼’s first all-female design competition team brings research to life
11/30/20
Five Texas Woman’s kinesiology seniors turned classroom theories into a real-world device by competing in the November 17-18. The 探花楼 Athena V team, the first all-female 探花楼 team to enter the competition and the only all-female team competing, placed fourth overall.
Prepared for success: 探花楼 alumna is ready to tackle her career
11/2/20
Texas Woman鈥檚 prides itself with providing outstanding academic instruction, but as alumna Fiona Kiprop (BS 鈥�19) discovered, the university also prepares students for successful careers. In her new position as regulatory health program coordinator with the Food and Drug Administration, Kiprop is taking everything she gained from her 探花楼 experience and applying it to her future.