Barrier Breaking Students

TWU team places third in international marketing competition

The Texas Woman’s American Marketing Association student chapter finished in third place in a case competition at the AMA International Collegiate Conference. College of Business students Ciara Easterling, Rebecca Lembrino-Crowe, Judith Vega and Taylor Reid presented their marketing plan to The Sheth Foundation after being named one of 11 finalists in January.

Championship chemistry

As long as she can remember, Maya Schwickert’s life has revolved around creativity and curiosity. As she concludes her freshman year at Texas Woman's University, Schwickert is already a champion artistic swimmer, an award-winning chemistry student, and an accomplished mathematician.

TWU students offer dignity to foster children

Motivated by their own experiences, Fostering the Future members purchased and decorated duffel bags to give  children ages 5-12 in Denton County in the foster system. 

Grad has sights on expanding care to her native Nepal

Melina Dhakal has spent the last seven years living and going to school in the United States. Her aspirations are to finish her education, gain experience as a speech-language practitioner and return to her home country of Nepal to help those who are most in need. Dhakal will graduate in December 2023 from Texas Woman’s University with a master’s degree in speech-language pathology.

MBA offers exonerated Death Row inmate fresh start

Ryan Matthews is ready to take a a big step toward charting his own course when he graduates from Texas Woman’s on Dec. 16 with an MBA, which has an emphasis on business analytics. When he was 17 years old, Matthews was convicted of a murder he did not commit. He spent five years on death row in Louisiana before DNA evidence exonerated him in 2004.