News and Events
Program awards TWU educator $400,000 grant to fight misinformation
8/1/23
What is real? What isn’t? Can I trust this? These are familiar questions we ask ourselves when scrolling through social media or looking for information online. These are also questions that School of Library and Information Studies assistant professor Tara Zimmerman, PhD, plans to help children in kindergarten through fifth grade (K-5) learn how to answer.
Professor supports teachers of Ukrainian refugees
7/12/23
Bombs fell. Tanks rolled. Soldiers marched. The war in Ukraine began in February 2022, scattering refugees across the globe. Nearly 13 million Ukrainian refugees have crossed into neighboring Poland since the war began — mostly women and children. They are children who don’t speak Polish, but mainly Russian and Ukrainian. Children who still need to learn, who need school, who need teachers.
Another TWU Holmes Scholar gains national recognition
6/28/23
The Texas Woman’s University Holmes Scholars in the College of Professional Education continue to represent the university well at the national level. After Phyliciá Anderson was named a Holmes Scholar of the Month in October, Blanca Jurado received the honor for May from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).
SLIS hosts three Taiwanese exchange scholars
6/27/23
While a library can open the entire world to a person willing to discover it, librarianship can sometimes literally lead a person to the other side of the globe. That is the case for three students from Taiwan this summer.
Faculty, students head to AERA 2023
4/13/23
Faculty and students from Literacy and Learning in the College of Professional Education (COPE) head to Chicago for the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) April 13-16.