Featured Graduates

Barely old enough to drive, grad is on path to PhD

5/10/24

To the casual observer, Hana Taylor Schlitz may look awfully young to be a college graduate.

That’s because she is.

Hana, who graduated May 10 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Texas Woman’s University, just turned 16 years old in February.  

TWU’s spirit leader leaves big shoes to fill

5/10/24

It may have been Andy Hackett’s final activity when he crossed the stage to accept his diploma from Texas Woman’s University, but the legacy he left behind as the university’s spirit leader means there will be very big shoes to fill.

Figuratively and literally.

Before graduation, a final feather in her cap

5/6/24

College of Business student Dayssy Moreno was one of 47 accounting students from across the state of Texas to receive the Accounting Excellence Award from The Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants.

MBA offers exonerated Death Row inmate fresh start

12/12/23

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.

Grad has sights on expanding care to her native Nepal

12/14/23

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.