CAS Research | Texas Woman's University

Understanding the world

College of Arts & Sciences faculty leverage their research skills to better understand the world we live in and solve pressing problems, including:

studying political issues at home and abroad
discovering the impact of discipline-shaping figures in dance, the visual arts, theatre, fashion, rhetoric and literature
untangling pressing environmental issues
finding causes and cures for health problems such as breast cancer and neurodegenerative diseases
intervening in social issues through language instruction, psychology, social work and sociology
researching language, activism and gender issues
creating art, music and dance that engages and inspires

The wide range of disciplines and research approaches makes CAS unique in the way faculty connect to our communities and shape the future.

Grants

The College of Arts & Sciences accounts for 26.6% of the TWU student population, but CAS earns far more than any other TWU college or school, garnering $4,401,965 in grants in 2023-24.

CAS % of TWU grants

37.6%

CAS % of student research grants

35.9%

CAS % of Travel Assistance grants

42%

The College of Arts & Sciences' Biology and Chemistry & Biochemistry divisions garnered two of TWU's three TARGET grants.

CAS also won grants from HHS-NIH, National Science Foundation ,Department of Defense-Air Force, Department of Education, NASA, Council of Writing Program Administrators, the State of Texas, HHS-Administration for Children & Families and The Morris L. Lichtenstein Jr. Foundation.

In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

— Louis Pasteur, chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist

Research is creating new knowledge.

— Neil Armstrong, astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

— Zora Neale Hurston, writer, anthropologist, folklorist and documentary filmmaker

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

— Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

— Marie Curie, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and chemist

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel-Prize winning biochemist

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

— Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat and activist

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

— Thomas A. Edison, inventor and businessman

2025 Summer research

Ann Wheeler

Using digital curricula to enhance teaching mathematics Explores using digital curricula in elementary classrooms and its impact on teaching practices.

Shiru Lin

Aims to harness convolutional neural networks enhanced with patch cropping and multimodal training techniques.

Marta A. Mercado-Sierra

Using technology in social work education: a systematic literature review

Lionel Faure

Elevating plants lipid droplet production to generate energy-rich biomass

Stina Soderling

Awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Centre for the Social Study of Microbes in Finland, a hub for social scientists and artists conducting research on human-microbial relations.

Zane Lybrand

The Lybrand Lab has been awarded grants to advance brain research and create new opportunities for student involvement.

Explore with us

Take a look at our faculty and student scholars and researchers and the subjects that intrigue them.

TWU internal grant programs Dean's research scholars Summer research grants CAS student research Center for Student Research

Student research

In 2023-24, CAS students earned 15 Student Presentation grants (44% of those won by TWU students) and made 42 Student Research Symposium presentations.