School and Alumni News

Kinesiology team earns fifth win in NASA-sponsored design challenge

When it comes to space flight challenges, Texas Woman’s kinesiology students always seem to have the best solutions. For the fifth time in the last seven years, a team of Texas Woman’s undergraduate kinesiology students took the top overall prize at a NASA-sponsored statewide design competition. 

Grad finds career calling in cardiac healthcare role

Texas Woman’s 2024 graduate Hannah Klim is the first kinesiology (exercise science) student from the TWU School of Health Promotion and Kinesiology to be accepted into the rigorous cardiovascular perfusion program at Baylor Scott & White’s The Heart Hospitals Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) in Plano. 

TWU alum gets front-row seat to Olympics as volunteer

A Texas Woman’s alumna is getting a peek behind the curtains at the Paris Olympics and the Paralympic Games this summer. Vanessa Fiaud, PhD is serving as an official volunteer for the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. 

Leadership skills key to student’s path to regent

With a heart for people and a desire to make an impact, Maya Landgrebe will serve as Texas Woman's new student regent. Landgrebe is a recent exercise science/pre-occupational therapy graduate and is a current occupational therapy doctoral student on the Houston campus. 

Faculty win $10,000 first prize at research conference

Assistant Professor Ngozi Mbue, PhD, of the College of Nursing and Associate Professor Rhett Rigby, PhD, of the College of Health Sciences teamed with two others to win $10,000 and first prize at TARC, an annual research conference sponsored by the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES).