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Dallas philanthropist Myers makes $2 million gift to Stroke Center

Dallas businessman and philanthropist Mike A. Myers has given a $2 million gift to Texas Woman’s stroke center to be used to expand research, patient and family services, and inter-professional training opportunities.

Alumna finds added reward in helping children with hearing loss

Texas Woman's alumna Phallon Doss is an audiologist who identifies and treats hearing loss in people from all walks of life. She is fluent in American Sign Language and can communicate directly with patients who also sign. Doss put her signing skills to good use last summer when she returned to Texas Woman’s Denton campus for the Future Classroom Lab’s two camps.

In the News: Alexandra Mack

TWU nutrition senior Alexandra Mack cooked up some recipes from her Apartment Friendly Cookbook on the Fox4 Good Day morning show. The cookbook was part of Mack’s capstone project and was made with ingredients that can be found in Minerva’s Market. 

TWU design team places third at NASA-sponsored competition

Texas Woman's University undergraduate kinesiology students placed third in a statewide NASA-sponsored design competition. The team designed and tested a lightweight and compact exercise device for astronauts to prevent muscle atrophy. 

Pickleball may be leisure Rx for stroke patients

Occupational therapy doctoral candidate Natalie Mackie has developed an adaptive pickleball program for clients at the Stroke Center-Dallas as part of her capstone project.